drugs Twitterbot mines Venmo's public-by-default transactions and tweets presumably sarcastic drug buys and sexual services Cory Doctorow
police The ACLU analyzed the number of police in schools compared to social workers, and the results are staggering Thom Dunn
Technology FBI and DHS's CISA warn China-backed hackers are targeting U.S. COVID-19 research Xeni Jardin
Technology Zoom: Thousands of calls found via web search, thanks to default file naming scheme after users saved them in unprotected spaces like open AWS S3 buckets Xeni Jardin
politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
economics A layperson-friendly introduction to MMT, a heterodox school of economics that could finance a Green New Deal Cory Doctorow
class war The Labour manifesto: transformation of the welfare system, fair conditions for workers, universal housing, home care for elderly, fully funded NHS, fair taxes for the rich Cory Doctorow
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow
World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman
surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow
Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow
privacy Australia wants to kill consent requirement in proposed data-sharing legislation, calls it "nuance" Cory Doctorow
economics We could fund the transition to green energy with 10-30% of the world's fossil fuel subsidy Cory Doctorow
