crime US Conference of Mayors adopts a resolution to never pay off ransomware attackers Cory Doctorow
scholarship Subway tunnel heat-exchangers could heat and cool thousands of nearby apartments Cory Doctorow
finance The rent's less damned high: rents falling in most of America's most expensive cities Cory Doctorow
Business To chase out low-waged workers, Mountain View is banning overnight RV and van parking Cory Doctorow
Business The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during "surges"), overworked drivers Cory Doctorow
Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Buried in Uber's IPO, an aggressive plan to destroy all public transit Cory Doctorow
climate change NYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the city's carbon footprint Cory Doctorow
Copyfight The Vessel: a perfect symbol for the grifter capitalism of New York City's privatized Hudson Yards "neighborhood" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants An astounding gigapixel panorama of Paris affords "an eyeful of the Eiffel" Jeffrey Martin
Safety Lime scooters have a software bug that causes them to hurl their riders to the ground Cory Doctorow
corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow
privacy New York City's new rideshare regs put Big Brother in backseat, give GPS tracking a whole new meaning Albert Fox Cahn
finance The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money Cory Doctorow
