repair fails An attempt was made to fix a bent steering wheel on an ATV Mark Frauenfelder

police In Portlandia, police confiscated chickpeas and White Claw Thom Dunn

late stage capitalism Winners Take All: the Davos Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney philanthropy) Cory Doctorow

Business Sears chairman Eddie Lampert submits new $5 billion bid to save doomed retailer Xeni Jardin

right to repair California Farm Bureau sells out farmers, hands John Deere a monopoly over tractor repair Cory Doctorow

facebook The emerging split in modern trustbusting: Alexander Hamilton's Fully Automated Luxury Communism vs Thomas Jefferson's Redecentralization Cory Doctorow

Copyfight EFF to US Copyright Office: fix the DRM rules that stop us from fixing our stuff, make fair use, and make IoT gadgets work the way we want Cory Doctorow

Copyfight What's wrong with the Copyright Office's DRM study? Cory Doctorow

health Medical procedures priced in Iphones, for the benefit of noted dumbass Jason Chaffetz Cory Doctorow

privacy Apple Store employees fired after accusations of snooping on customers' devices for sexual selfies and sharing them Cory Doctorow

happy mutants How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty Cory Doctorow

privacy Apple update unbricks phones disabled by Error 53 Rob Beschizza

media After years of fat-shaming headlines, the tabloids decide that thin can kill, too Peter Sheridan

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

The Sound of Silence in the National Library Glenn Fleishman