sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing
Science "My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy." David Pescovitz
Science The subreddit r/coronavirus is a pretty great COVID-19 news source with 1.2M+ members Xeni Jardin
tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Science More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after "bombshell" report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
happy mutants A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught Cory Doctorow
elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow
corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow
censorship Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow
photogrammetry "Removing the water": physically-accurate color correction algorithm for underwater photography Rob Beschizza
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow
