happy mutant Danny Elfman is teaching a MasterClass: "It's okay to fail" Rusty Blazenhoff

racists University of Cincinnati will remove Hitler-praiser Marge Schott's name from stadium Mark Frauenfelder

right to repair The right to repair is the right to screw up Seamus Bellamy

privacy Apple poses a false dichotomy between "privacy" and "competition" Cory Doctorow

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

youtube Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube Cory Doctorow

surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow

class war Ghost warrants: US cops routinely arrest people for warrants that were canceled long ago, and lock them up for months before discovering the error Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Copyright filters are automatically removing copies of the Mueller Report Cory Doctorow

class war Lulzy Instagram memers are organizing a deadly serious trade union Cory Doctorow

Business Male tech execs accused of sexual misconduct now getting second chances Xeni Jardin

monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

eff The EU says it wants Europeans to engage with it: now that 4 MILLION of them have opposed mass censorship through #Article13, will they listen? Cory Doctorow

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger

Copyfight Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The copyright wars want a word with you. Cory Doctorow

#metoo Someone pulled their dick out: Louis C.K. and the #MeToo movement Maureen Herman

uk If this goes on… The 1% will own two thirds of the world by 2030 Cory Doctorow

News Facebook 'Made Mistakes,' says Mark Zuckerberg in first words on Cambridge Analytica crisis Xeni Jardin

mistakes Machine solves Rubik's cube in the blink of an eye Rob Beschizza