petard Republican New York State Assembly leader publishes anti-drunk driving PSA shortly before drunkenly crashing a state-owned car Cory Doctorow
education Students at elite Shanghai university protest the removal of "freedom of thought" from the school charter Cory Doctorow
petard Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned Cory Doctorow
censorship The lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black students or face a lawsuit Cory Doctorow
law NSO Group employees kicked off Facebook for spying for brutal dictators are suing Facebook for violating their privacy Cory Doctorow
elections When Republicans say "How will you pay for Medicare for All?" Democrats should answer: "Mexico will pay for it" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Part two of my novella "Martian Chronicles" on Escape Pod: who cleans the toilets in libertopia? Cory Doctorow
happy mutants "Martian Chronicles": Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars Cory Doctorow
google After the passage of the EU Copyright Directive, Google nukes Google News France Cory Doctorow
publishing Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." Cory Doctorow
Business Cisco's failure to heed whistleblower's warning about security defects in video surveillance software costs the company $8.6m in fines Cory Doctorow
racism Irish islamaphobe condemns Halal grocery as evidence of creeping islamification, is subsequently forcefully reminded of the global proliferation of Irish pubs Cory Doctorow
Business Trade war: Hasbro is shifting manufacturing to Vietnam and India, drawing down production in China Cory Doctorow
trumpism #Rickyrenuncia: Bowing to popular pressure, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello has resigned Cory Doctorow
Business E-scooter companies are desperate for repo men to stop impounding their vehicles Cory Doctorow
Business Florida property-tax auction winner didn't realize he was bidding on a 12"-wide strip between two houses Cory Doctorow
