air travel What to do when random airport security screening isn't all that random Seamus Bellamy

grifters George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's mother for $100M in order to promote a movie Thom Dunn

race TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches Cory Doctorow

canada My life on the road: A lost passport, no ID, and bullshit paperwork trying to get back to Canada Seamus Bellamy

gender Amazon trained a sexism-fighting, resume-screening AI with sexist hiring data, so the bot became sexist Cory Doctorow

aviation Quiet Skies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through airports and on planes, for no articulatable purpose Cory Doctorow

aviation The DHS has illegally stuffed America's airports full of $1B worth shitty, malfing facial-recognition tech Cory Doctorow

religion Pope Francis: atheists who follow their consciences will be welcome in Heaven Cory Doctorow

Reviews Krampus trashes the horror potential of traditional mythology in a film that's neither funny nor scary Al Ridenour

spooks FBI agent faces discipline for alleged polygraph countermeasures Cory Doctorow

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery