elections Presidential fundraising scorecard: who's raising the most and who is most beholden to the ultra-wealthy and corporations? Cory Doctorow
podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder
Business Businesses and stores are adding AI to security cameras for social distancing and mask-wearing compliance Xeni Jardin
crime Ex-Microsoft engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currencies from Microsoft to make extravagant purchases Xeni Jardin
Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder
fbi The FBI doesn't need Apple to give it a backdoor to encryption, because it already has all the access it needs Thom Dunn
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow
class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow
