drm Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won't dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
white supremacy Ecofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movement Cory Doctorow
normalizing racism Ex-GOP staffer who racially assaulted black woman and wrote for white supremacist site VDare now writes for WSJ, Forbes Xeni Jardin
apple DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into "tenants of our own devices" Cory Doctorow
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
class war From prisons to factories to offices: the spread of workplace surveillance and monitoring tech Cory Doctorow
surveillance Ios and Android app stores both host Saudi government app that lets men track their spouses' movements Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Announcing the audiobook for Unauthorized Bread: a DRM-free tale of DRM-locked appliances, refugees, and resistance Cory Doctorow
facebook The journalists Facebook installed as fact-checkers say the company is using them as window-dressing Cory Doctorow
politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Laser cutters and 3D printers revive century-old a magic lantern show of Erewhon at the Edinburgh Fringe Cory Doctorow
social malaise This 70-year-old book about racist mass movements perfectly describes Trumpism Mark Frauenfelder
