genocide This children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist violence for kids Thom Dunn
Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn
#CoronavirusLockdown Australian police fine couple $1,060 after they posted old vacation photos Mark Frauenfelder
Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder
Business The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow
Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
politics Three women independently accuse Gordon Sondland of repeated acts of highly similar sexual misconduct Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
health The target date for eradicating Guinea worm has been delayed 10 years, and that may be overly optimistic John Struan
corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow
useful stuff Carla Sinclair talks about some of her favorite tools on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder
human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
Business KPMG is in the middle of an unbelievably dirty cheating scandal that keeps on getting uglier Cory Doctorow
security Nest's "ease of use" imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker's playground Cory Doctorow
