politics Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by Facebook at ~$81M, Amazon almost $80M: Federal filings Xeni Jardin
Business Facebook helps launch American Edge, lobbying group in DC to fight antitrust regulators Xeni Jardin
usps They're never going to get rid of the Postal Service because then who would deliver the scorpions? Thom Dunn
Business Former Google exec says he was pushed out after he lobbied for human rights program Xeni Jardin
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
security One Weird Law That Interferes With Security Research, Remix Culture, and Even Car Repair Kit Walsh
corruption Hunter Biden's Ukraine gig was corrupt, just not in the way Republican conspiracists claim it was Cory Doctorow
corruption Elizabeth Warren proposes an "excessive lobbying tax" that would fund independent Congressional experts and public participation in policy Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
Your tax dollars at work Even the fireworks were corrupt at Trump's July 4th 'Salute to America' Xeni Jardin
LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow
