shitty news A list of poop-filled places beyond the bathroom Carla Sinclair

Funny Grim Reaper visits Florida beaches as Gov. DeSantis lifts COVID-19 restrictions Xeni Jardin

Some Good News With John Krasinski Good news: John Krasinski has a whole bunch of good news Seamus Bellamy

Business The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy Cory Doctorow

facebook Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users Cory Doctorow

music What's cooler than being cool? Hundreds of musicians protesting ICE and Amazon Thom Dunn

art Tim Biskup: new interview and book from the great pop surrealist David Pescovitz

art Two suspects arrested after $5 million gold toilet stolen from Britain's Blenheim Palace Xeni Jardin

everyone's a critic Right wing freaks out over eco-art in Austria: "Go away and take your shitty forest!" Clive Thompson

Business Gaming's #MeToo moment: male fragility versus women's fundamental rights Cory Doctorow

machine learning Announcement of Tumblr's sale to WordPress classified as pornography by Tumblr's notorious "adult content" filter Cory Doctorow

security An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands Cory Doctorow

science fiction Paolo Bacigalupi's "A Full Life": climate apocalypse with a side of intergenerational warfare and science denial Cory Doctorow

AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow

Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow

floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Simone "Shitty Robots" Giertz has big, makerish plans for her brain tumor Cory Doctorow

medicine Ho ho no: risk of suffering a heart attack is 40% higher on Christmas Eve Seamus Bellamy

mistakes Code recreates Pfizer's 1956 effort to procedurally generate drug names Rob Beschizza

religion Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores Cory Doctorow