television Mister Rogers' Drunk History Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Criminal hackers breach law firm, threaten to release Trump documents Xeni Jardin

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

Gadgets Here's how to harness the power of AI to help you screen unwanted spam calls for good Boing Boing's Shop

corruption Senators to U.S. Ethics Official: 'Ensure COVID-19 Decisions Serve the American Public, Not President Trump's & Jared Kushner's Financial Interests' Xeni Jardin

News Inspiring rules for journalists by PBS NewsHour's Jim Lehrer (RIP) David Pescovitz

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

law Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials Cory Doctorow

guns Seattle authorities used "Red Flag" gun laws to disarm a Neo-Nazi Thom Dunn

facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow

politics You Don't Se: Trump wrote much of own lawyer letter to Pelosi Rob Beschizza

law Creating a "coercion resistant" communications system Cory Doctorow

politics In Ireland, Mike Pence stays at Trump’s Doonbeg resort 150 miles away from VP's meetings in Dublin Xeni Jardin

robocalls Tech-powered war on robocalls pledged by 12 U.S. telephone carriers and 51 attorneys general Xeni Jardin

science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

jeffrey epstein Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents show how he & Ghislaine Maxwell lured girls into sex abuse Xeni Jardin

Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow