books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the patent-trolling business-model Cory Doctorow
publishing Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." Cory Doctorow
health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow
Business Leak: Apple is demanding 50% of the revenue from its "Netflix for news" product Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Houseplant patent EULA: "Asexual reproduction using scions, buds or cutting is strictly prohibited" Cory Doctorow
scholarship Thousands of prominent AI researchers tell Nature they won't have anything to do with its new paywalled journal Cory Doctorow
Copyfight After industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh Cory Doctorow
net neutrality The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too late Cory Doctorow
Business Hedge funds buy swathes of foreclosed subprimes, force up rents, float rent-bonds Cory Doctorow
Business Canada Post sues crowdsourced postal-code database, claims copyright in Canadian postal-codes Cory Doctorow
science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn
Science A Scheme of Heaven is a deep investigation of astrology from a scientist’s perspective Ferdinando Buscema
