guillotine watch The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC Cory Doctorow
california LA is going to get cheap nighttime power from a massive solar and battery array in the Mojave Cory Doctorow
scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism France fines UBS €3.7b for helping rich French residents launder more than €10b Cory Doctorow
privacy invaders Travelers to New Zealand who refuse a digital strip search will be fined $5000 Mark Frauenfelder
Business Denmark's largest bank laundered €200B through its Estonian branch, ignoring glaring warning signs Cory Doctorow
Business Santander Bank freezes transgender woman's account because she sounded 'like a man' Rob Beschizza
surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow
crime It's really easy to steal your cellphone number, and that's a gateway to stealing everything else Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Treasure Islands: EU publishes a blacklist of 17 tax-havens and a long-list of runner-up tax avoidance jurisdictions Cory Doctorow
novels Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire Mark Frauenfelder
china Bank of International Settlements warns of global economic crash, "with a vengeance" Cory Doctorow
spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow
crime Leaked tax-haven data shows that the super rich are way, way richer than suspected Cory Doctorow
#trumprussia New secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross has ties to illicit Russian finance Mark Frauenfelder
