amazon If Amazon existed in the 1980s Rusty Blazenhoff

Science How do you count more than 60,000 sea turtles? David Pescovitz

videogames Talking Adventure Games with Dave Gilbert Jeffery Klaehn

real estate The US government just "disestablished" a Native American reservation Thom Dunn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch

Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow

Technology This map shows where local police departments partner with Amazon's Ring Xeni Jardin

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

corruption The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks Cory Doctorow

libraries San Diego! I'm keynoting the 40th anniversary of the Friends of the Public Library today (then: UCLA and LA Times Festival of Books) Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Socal! I'll be in Burbank on April 7, San Diego on April 11 and UCLA on April 12 Cory Doctorow

github Rise of the Surveillance Scooters? Albert Fox Cahn

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

usausausa DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen Cory Doctorow

surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow

facebook American Conservative laments market concentration and private property as bad for free expression Cory Doctorow

trumpism Why "leftism" is parting ways with "liberalism" and what it means for the future of American politics Cory Doctorow

corruption How the University of New Hampshire spun blowing a frugal librarian's donation on a stupid football scoreboard Cory Doctorow