crime Wells Fargo's ex-CEO will pay $17.5m in fines and never work in banking again (but he is still very, very rich) Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
events Angelenos! I'm speaking in Culver City tomorrow about the sale of .ORG to private equity Cory Doctorow
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Departing Kotaku writers post a farewell message to their private equity asshole boss: "Sup dude. Suck it." Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism One of the world's largest private equity firms just bought one of the world's largest library ebook companies Cory Doctorow
corruption Doctors who take pharma industry freebies prescribe more of their benefactors' drugs Cory Doctorow
trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
corruption Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow