nudging Sweden proposes tax breaks for repairing things, extra tax on unrepairable things Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Wickedbone is a smart dog toy that plays with your pooch all on its own Boing Boing's Shop

pinball Review of a virtual pinball bartop machine Mark Frauenfelder

tips Two ways to argue more effectively with a political opponent Mark Frauenfelder

caveat emptor How online retailers trick you into signing up for costly monthly memberships Mark Frauenfelder

picks Give Women Your Money: Shoppable spreadsheet of women-led businesses Krystal Plomatos

Business Shopify no-platforms Nazis (but not Breitbart) Cory Doctorow

News Trump-Putin in Helsinki: Transcript and Video Xeni Jardin

police Tennessee sheriff who ordered deputies to kill driver of slow-moving car and gloated over his corpse faces excessive force lawsuit Cory Doctorow

Business Nudging doesn't give poor people retirement savings, it just makes them poorer Cory Doctorow

Business The Financial Times: Uber is doomed Cory Doctorow

politics Beyond fake news: the "constructed realities" of the polarized world Cory Doctorow

Business Jigsaw: "wildly ambitious" Google spin-out aimed at tackling "surveillance, extremist indoctrination, censorship" Cory Doctorow

podcasts Dancers in the house Bill Barol

Business Highest-paid CEOs generate lowest shareholder returns Cory Doctorow

uk Happy Chilcot Day (A Fairy Story) Charlie Fletcher

Games How to play chess like an asshole Rob Beschizza

music Mess up the practice space while the band keeps playing Leigh Alexander

offworld Read Only Memories breathes life into queer characters in Neo San Francisco Katherine Cross

offworld Cultivate an alien garden on this sunless world Laura Hudson