music There's actually an interesting (and obsessive) story behind Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag" Thom Dunn
racism Ahmaud Arbery: 2 months ago, unarmed black man shot and killed by civilians for jogging. Video just came out. Thom Dunn
Someone paid US$100,000 for the safety and arming plugs from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima David Pescovitz
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow
canada Mounties accidentally stream homicide press conference with Facebook's cat filter turned on Seamus Bellamy
tabloids Hollywood stars too fat and too thin, and the Royal reality TV show, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan
LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow
History The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history books Cory Doctorow
Copyfight After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations Cory Doctorow
books The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the "deep state" is just nerds versus grifters Cory Doctorow
Copyfight The EU's new Link Tax bans the use of Creative Commons and open access for news Cory Doctorow
picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper
