drugs Twitterbot mines Venmo's public-by-default transactions and tweets presumably sarcastic drug buys and sexual services Cory Doctorow

security Venmo's "public by default" transactions reveal drug deals, breakups, more Cory Doctorow

finance Don't use Venmo for merchant transactions, example 1,001 Andrea James

picks Apple and payment partners rumored to be launching a new money-transfer service Xeni Jardin

racists Maskless troll at coffee shop has temper tantrum over BLM sign Mark Frauenfelder

social distancing Doc Pop is creating t-shirts with social distance/self-isolation messaging in black metal band logos Gareth Branwyn

social distancing Tag yourself on this social distancing D&D alignment chart Thom Dunn

Technology Twitter tells facial-recognition app maker to stop scraping photos, Clearview AI used by 600+ US law enforcement agencies Xeni Jardin

racism Newspaper fires reporter over racist tweets after reporter came to national attention for exposing fundraiser's racist tweets John Struan

Food Gentleman running homeless assistance program sympathetic to folks with well fed children Jason Weisberger

contests If you correctly guess the secret word on Slack you'll win $1,000 Mark Frauenfelder

Business Facebook is working on a crypto coin for WhatsApp Xeni Jardin

News PayPal bans Laura Loomer, noted racist troll grifter Xeni Jardin

dead media Stephen Colbert teaches a millennial how to use a payphone Mark Frauenfelder