silicon valley What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using? Thom Dunn

eff In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis Cory Doctorow

security Nest's "ease of use" imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker's playground Cory Doctorow

mistakes 70s fonts back in fashion Rob Beschizza

law British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court Cory Doctorow

Business Google's secret project to build a censored Chinese search engine bypassed the company's own security and privacy teams Cory Doctorow

Business British Parliament seizes internal Facebook documents by threatening to jail a rival exec Cory Doctorow

Business Big Tech has established a "kill zone" of business ideas that startups can't get funded to try Cory Doctorow

art The tech business's favorite illustration style Rob Beschizza

science fiction Ted Chiang: Elon Musk's fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

After On Podcast An hour with Ev Williams: founder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger Rob Reid

urban theory NYC civic hackers invite frustrated Silicon Valleyites to do good in New York Cory Doctorow

DRONES Chris Anderson: Drone mogul and former bass player for REM (no, not *that* REM). Rob Reid

gobbledegook These companies' websites offer no clue as to what they do Mark Frauenfelder

books Sourdough: a delicious story about nerdism and the flesh, by Robin "Mr Penumbra" Sloan Cory Doctorow

start-ups What’s wrong with startup culture: A video Mark Frauenfelder

law Idaho law lets your boss sue you if you get a better job Cory Doctorow

television All the inside jokes in Silicon Valley's opening title sequence Mark Frauenfelder

politics Canadian tech firms will have their pick of overseas talent thanks to Trump's anti-immigrant policies Cory Doctorow