videos Sarah Jeong's Harvard lecture: "The Internet of Garbage" Cory Doctorow

b-side Trump administration is drafting plans for corporate moon mining Thom Dunn

new york city A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more Gareth Branwyn

tabloids A beheaded tot, isolated stars, and cure coronavirus with herbs, in last week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

pop music The enduring beauty of Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman" and one of the greatest musical couplets ever written Gareth Branwyn

bedbugs Free bedbugs at Walmart in Pennsylvania Carla Sinclair

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

film Dredging Up What's "Under the Silver Lake" Natalie Dressed

Business Zuck claims he chows down with politicos from "across the spectrum" but they all seem to be far-right creeps Cory Doctorow

travel Onetravel sucks at dark patterns Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher

science fiction Revisiting Jonathan Coulton's album/graphic novel "Solid State" Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism MLMs are cults that prey on moms, Mormons and the military Cory Doctorow

finance The rent's less damned high: rents falling in most of America's most expensive cities Cory Doctorow

Business Felony Contempt of Business Model: Lexmark's anti-competitive legacy Cory Doctorow

health Insulin: why the price of a 100-year-old drug has tripled in a decade Cory Doctorow

san francisco San Francisco breaks its e-cigarette habit Seamus Bellamy