Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

History Watch this impressive c.1929 footage of construction workers atop NYC's Chrysler Building David Pescovitz

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow

naughty words Conservatives angry at Burger King over ad where someone says "Damn that's good" Rob Beschizza

science fiction William Gibson profiled in The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder

law Important legal victory in web-scraping case Cory Doctorow

china Hong Kong protests level up in countermeasures, tactics, art and deadly seriousness Cory Doctorow

climate change NYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the city's carbon footprint Cory Doctorow

security Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators Cory Doctorow

facebook Citing terms of service and "bad actors," Facebook locks out tools that catalog ads and ad targeting Cory Doctorow

makers Man restores rusted cast-iron vise to pristine condition Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival Jasmina Tesanovic

urban theory New York's luxury real-estate market is crashing Cory Doctorow

design Incredible 19 square feet LEGO model of Apple Park David Pescovitz

halloween Pumpkin carving tools and templates Jason Weisberger

grilling Throw out metal grill brushes, say doctors Rob Beschizza

Gadgets This app helps you build your dream home from the ground up Boing Boing's Shop

surveillance London demonstrates the stupid, janky future of Smart Cities Cory Doctorow

jazz-age memes The stowaway craze of the 1920s Clive Thompson