horror Finding Pennywise the Clown in your backyard is serious business Seamus Bellamy

disasters NYT: In times of global shock people help each other, while the elite panic Mark Frauenfelder

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

law The TSA strip searched a grandmother on Mother's Day and now says that she's overreacting because it's no different from a locker room Cory Doctorow

gwot Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it Cory Doctorow

disillusionment Post-internet lament Jasmina Tesanovic

corruption Equifax will make hundreds of millions in extra profits from its apocalyptic breach (forever) Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Ikea vs Superfans: how paranoid trademark lawyers make everything suck Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron Glazer

fear What the stampede at JFK airport tells us about fear Rob Beschizza

cocks LA's "credible" terror threats were reportedly anonymous email from cock.li Rob Beschizza

politics "Stranger Danger" to children vastly overstated Glenn Fleishman

psychology Why people believe things you don't believe David McRaney

kickstarter Kickstop: how a sleazebag slipped through Kickstarter's cracks Glenn Fleishman