Russell Walks' astounding and vast collection of licensed, retro-styled Star Wars propaganda posters are also available in postcard form.

The journalists whom Facebook recruited to check the spread of policitized disinformation campaigns have called for an end to the program because Facebook has consistently ignored their recommendations, especially when… Read the rest of the article: The journalists Facebook installed as fact-checkers say the company is using them as window-dressing

In California, the GOP scores below "no party preference" in voter registration, but much of the state's elites — business leaders, prosecutors, judges — have remained Republican, even as the… Read the rest of the article: Citing Brett Kavanaugh appointment, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has quit the GOP

From a distance, it's hard to understand the nuance of the mass "gilets jaunes" protests that rocked France; with one in five French people identifying as a yellow vest and… Read the rest of the article: Yellow Vests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy

Hungary's far-right, xenophobic government rose to power by exploiting racism and economic anxiety, just like Trump — and just like Trump, they've pursued an agenda that uses performative racist cruelty… Read the rest of the article: Mass protests and parliamentary chaos in Hungary over "slave labour" law

Earlier this month, European right-to-repair activists sounded the alarm, warning that the model right-to-repair legislation that had been proceeding through the EU legislative process had been hijacked by lobbyists who… Read the rest of the article: Europe's right-to-repair movement is surging — and winning

Yesterday, the European Union's "trilogue" met for what was supposed to be the last negotiating session on the new Copyright Directive, including the universal filters for all user-generated content and… Read the rest of the article: After chaos, the EU's plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards

For two years now, Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang have been knocking my socks off with their Paper Girls graphic novel, a mysterious, all-girl, Stranger-Things-esque romp through 1980s pop… Read the rest of the article: Paper Girls 5: fate and free will (and dinosaurs and monsters)

To my delight and awe, I have discovered a whole, new-to-me universe of "realistic flame" effect LED lightbulbs, which produce the illusion that you have a goblet of raging flame… Read the rest of the article: The strange and complex world of flame-effect LED bulbs

A coalition of shipping industry associations has published The Guidelines on Cyber Security Onboard Ships, laying out best practices for the giant ships that ply the seas, and revealing that… Read the rest of the article: Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with ransomware, BadUSB, and worms

When Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality (by illegally ignoring legitimate comments in support of it in favor of millions of anti-Net Neutrality comments sent by identity-stealing bots),… Read the rest of the article: Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality and Trump gave away a huge tax break; Verizon got billions and killed 10,000 jobs

It's been a year and a half since London's Grenfell Tower burned and at least 72 people died.

There's been a lot of money thrown around to determine the future of the Internet in the EU, but despite the frequent assertion that every opponent of the new Copyright… Read the rest of the article: Clash of the corporate titans: Who's spending what in Europe's Copyright Directive battle

The latest episode of the always-outstanding Adam Ruins Everything (previously) is my favorite yet: a wide-ranging look at the way that tech has exploited policy loopholes to monopolize control over… Read the rest of the article: Adam Ruins Big Tech: how monopolies, DRM, EULAs, and predatory tactics have delivered our dystopian future

In October, a delightful prank by the artist Banksy involved a painting of his shredding itself shortly after a Sotheby's bidder committed to spending £1.04m to buy it.

Today, in a debate scheduled to run between 18h-20h GMT (10AM-12PM Pacific), Theresa May's Conservative Party will vote on whether she will remain leader of the party and thus Prime… Read the rest of the article: Theresa May faces a no confidence vote today

A friend who works in ad-tech tells me that Verizon's datasets from its Yahoo/AOL assets are "the creepiest" in the industry, but even with every dirty trick and every stupid,… Read the rest of the article: Verizon writes down its Yahoo/AOL assets by $4.6 billion

Comcast offered to get internet service to (96% of) the good people of Charlemont, Mass in exchange for a $462,123 subsidy; instead, the town of 1300 voted to reject the… Read the rest of the article: Small Massachusetts town decides to spend $1.4m building its own fiber, rather than paying Comcast $500K for shitty broadband

It started when Tumblr flagged one of my retrospective posts (a five year old post about the right of British schoolkids to opt out of fingerprinting) as porn.

An investigation by the New York Times into the shadowy world of location-data brokerages found a whole menagerie of companies from IBM, Foursquare and the Weather Channel to obscure players… Read the rest of the article: Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans