uber Only 35% of Uber/Lyft riders always tip Mark Frauenfelder

Business Amazon at times used Flex drivers' tips to cover promised base pay, investigation finds Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

movies Watch the trailer for Spike Lee's new movie about black Vietnam vets David Pescovitz

happy mutants Bunnie Huang's classic "Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" is now free online Cory Doctorow

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

security Attribution is hard: the incredible skullduggery used to try to blame the 2018 Olympic cyberattack on North Korea Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kickstarting a new feminist bicycle science fiction: this one's about dragons! Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole "The Tragedy of the Commons": how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought Cory Doctorow

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

gig economy DoorDash "still stealing tips," say workers Mark Frauenfelder

google From search-engine to walled garden: majority of Google searches do not result in a click Cory Doctorow

mistakes Man ordered to retrieve the refrigerator he threw down a cliff Rob Beschizza

climate AOC and Greta Thunberg talk tactics and hope Cory Doctorow

Alien invasion base on the moon, Michael Jackson’s body missing, and Prince Harry’s clash with Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Aretha Franklin murdered, Kevin Spacey in slaying scandal, and Obama’s secret lover, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

climate Peak Indifference: are we reaching climate's denial/nihilism tipping point? Cory Doctorow

education What's wrong with blaming "information" for political chaos Cory Doctorow

climate How to think about climate change and "cost-benefit analysis" Cory Doctorow