education What's wrong with blaming "information" for political chaos Cory Doctorow

politics Facebook studied how it polarizes users, then ignored the research Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

guillotine watch With "OK boomer," millennials are killing intergenerational resentment Cory Doctorow

disease Cows painted like zebras keep flies from biting them Mark Frauenfelder

climate change Errol Morris and Bob Odenkirk team up to "capture the absurdity and the desperation" of climate change Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism Ex-Fox & Friends host, accused of a Ponzi scheme that turned Indianapolis real-estate investors into slumlords, moves to Portugal Cory Doctorow

scholarship An academic pollster explains why she thinks any Democratic nominee will win the presidency in 2020 Cory Doctorow

health Why is the American Medical Association finally weighing to oppose anti-abortion bills Cory Doctorow

elections All weekend, California Democrats booed neoliberal would-be presidents who talked down the Green New Deal and Medicare for All Cory Doctorow

Democrats A Sanders candidacy would make 2020 a referendum on the future, not a referendum on Trump Cory Doctorow

net neutrality America is not "polarized": it's a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority Cory Doctorow

fox Fox News was always partisan, but now it is rudderless and "anti-democratic" Cory Doctorow

picks Robert Mueller was target of Russian infowar, Senate report reveals Xeni Jardin

books Hank Green's "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing": aliens vs social media fame vs polarization Cory Doctorow

sad orange men Trump supporter demanded to see a list of impeachable offenses; someone happily obliged Mark Frauenfelder

Science Weird time-jumbling quantum device defies "before" and "after" David Pescovitz

podcasts How politics became our identity David McRaney

security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow