twitter Analyzing 800 daily tweets that say "Today was the day that Donald Trump became president" Cory Doctorow

coronavirus 'Social distancing machine' for coronavirus avoidance at work Xeni Jardin

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow

anxiety A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety Thom Dunn

Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow

privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow

corruption The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism UPDATE: New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries Cory Doctorow

Business California's Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

corruption Mining the Panama Papers and other leaks to reveal the hidden looting of West Africa by its corrupt elite Cory Doctorow

a preference for solitude The benefits of social withdrawal Mark Frauenfelder

News 'Freedom to say goodbye' — Judge says Trump immigrant deportations resemble 'regimes we revile' Xeni Jardin

uk UK tax authority, gutted by austerity and buried by Brexit, can't deal with the crime revealed by the Paradise Papers Cory Doctorow

swingers Artwork that challenges you to weave in between pendulums Clive Thompson

eu Cheaters cheat: VW swears the €17B it stashed in a web of Luxembourg companies has nothing to do with tax-avoidance Cory Doctorow

podcasts Why we often choose to keep useful information out of our heads David McRaney

Science NASA seeks 'Planetary Protection Officer' David Pescovitz

uk What does Jeremy Corbyn stand for? Cory Doctorow