film "Larry: The Burning Man Story" premieres in three time zones over solstice weekend Rusty Blazenhoff
music Members of Flaming Lips and Los Lobos score Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) David Pescovitz
prison Watch a video of my prison and opioids play "Streets Like This," performed by actors who have all dealt with incarceration Thom Dunn
Games The Sony PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 to Pets.com founder Greg McLemore David Pescovitz
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
china Huawei employees worked with China's military on AI systems and internet surveillance Xeni Jardin
picks Art pranksters upload Mark Zuckerberg deepfake to Instagram to test Facebook's non-removal policy Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Exclusive: "More Data": Negativland's video short about data privacy and surveillance Mark Hosler, Negativland
censorship That German-French Deal to "Rescue" the EU Copyright Directive? Everyone Hates It. EVERYONE. Cory Doctorow
youtube Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU's new Copyright Directive (adios, Despacito!) Cory Doctorow
art This AI-generated portrait just sold at auction for $432K, but not without controversy Rusty Blazenhoff
Business Leaked documents reveal Google's plan to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market Cory Doctorow
