police San Francisco's bike lanes have become Uber's pickup/dropoff zones (and the cops don't care) Cory Doctorow

tabloids Celebrity grave-digging, flesh-eating bacteria and alien abductions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

class war Burning Man purges one-percenter camp that charged up to $100K, littered like crazy, and ripped off its attendees Cory Doctorow

class war Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA teachers' strike Cory Doctorow

fake news Alien attack imminent, Buckingham Palace is a drug den, and the Queen is a criminal mastermind, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

facebook American Conservative laments market concentration and private property as bad for free expression Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

security Trump Tower has two "privately owned public spaces" that anyone is entitled to visit Cory Doctorow

uk Happy Chilcot Day (A Fairy Story) Charlie Fletcher

economics Roddenberry's Star Trek was "above all, a critique of Robert Heinlein" Manu Saadia

offworld Let's talk more about The Beginner's Guide, a game about games Critical Distance

gamergate That time the Internet sent a SWAT team to my mom's house Caroline Sinders

drug policy Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari

fcc Marriott plans to block personal wifi hotspots Glenn Fleishman

politics I survived an illegal abortion Fran Moreland Johns

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection Mark Frauenfelder

Business Uber and the appropriation of public space Glenn Fleishman

promoted John Cusack in hacker-land Xeni Jardin

History Kafka and d'Annunzio, and the mysteries to be revealed in their former homes Jasmina Tesanovic