science fiction Kim Stanley Robinson on how the coronavirus is rewiring our imaginations Gareth Branwyn
News Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway lost $340 million to California couple's massive Ponzi con Mark Frauenfelder
trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
class war Rideshare companies' effort to kill California employment bill is failing miserably Cory Doctorow
Business The guy who figured out Bernie Madoff's scam now says GE is about to go bankrupt Cory Doctorow
corruption Facebook's alleged growth is largely coming from countries where Facebook says it has a fake account problem Cory Doctorow
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
scams Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America Cory Doctorow
crime FBI: Online theft, fraud, exploitation caused losses of $2.7B globally in 2018, up from $1.4B in 2017 Xeni Jardin
scholarship Calculating Facebook's value by figuring out how much you'd have to pay users to quit Cory Doctorow
Business What it's like to be a woman reporter on a cryptocurrency cruise where nearly all the other women are sex-workers Cory Doctorow
uk Anatomy of how crooks use financial secrecy in the UK and New Zealand to rip off international investors with impunity Cory Doctorow
corruption Candid Wall Street barons worry that GOP tax plan will lead to literal euthanasia of the rentier Cory Doctorow
Games EVE Online doublecross is biggest in game history, blowing up $20K+ worth of game assets Cory Doctorow
class war Blackwater founder and DeVos war-criminal sibling Trump should install merc-backed viceroy in Afghanistan Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Smirking pharmabro Martin Shkreli to employee's wife: "I hope to see you and your four children homeless" Cory Doctorow
