Equifax doxed 145 million Americans, dumping their most sensitive financial data into the world forever, with repercussions that will be felt for decades to come.

Today, activists delivered more than 4,000,000 Europeans' signatures opposing the inclusion of an automated censorship system in the new Copyright Directive to the European officials in Strasbourg who are negotiating… Read the rest of the article: The EU says it wants Europeans to engage with it: now that 4 MILLION of them have opposed mass censorship through #Article13, will they listen?

Rocky Bergen creates gorgeous, downloadable papercraft models of retro PCs, from the Commodore 64 to the Apple ][+ to the Amstrad, with different screens to print celebrating classic 8-bit games,… Read the rest of the article: Beautiful papercraft retrocomputing models to print and love and hang from your tree

Leon Hong writes, "I made this science-y animation for my wife Elaine Hsiao's research — with the hopes that people will learn something new about how all the microbes that… Read the rest of the article: Me, Myself and Microbes: the relationship between microbes, brains and behaviors

Jim Hightower is a longstanding, respected columnist distributed by Creators Syndicate — but Creators refused to distribute his latest column, "Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers," which warns… Read the rest of the article: Syndicated columnist censored for writing about the risks of hedge funds and billionaires buying papers

The latest installment of the Canadaland media criticism podcast (MP3) (previously) features an outstanding and nuanced discussion between host Jesse Brown and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen (previously), regarding the… Read the rest of the article: Outstanding podcast on the Canadian government's plan drop $600m on a bailout for the national press

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not guarantee Americans "equal" education (which would require similar per-student funding in both rich and poor neighborhoods), merely "adequate" education.

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In 1948, Costa Rica weathered a civil war, and in 1949, they abolished their military. Since then, Costa Rica has emerged as the Central American success story, more politically stable… Read the rest of the article: Costa Rica abolished its army in 1949 and thereafter enjoyed the best per-capita GDP growth in the region

George HW Bush was a mass murderer and a war criminal and now he is dead.

Writing in New York Magazine, Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith draws on Hubert Horan's outstanding series on the underlying economics of Uber to describe why the company's IPO will be a… Read the rest of the article: Uber is a "bezzle," doomed to disappoint the suckers who buy into its IPO

Spoonflower's gorgeous selection of Haunted Mansion patterns can be printed on demand on wallpaper, giftwrap, or fabric: from the green strips of the maids' uniforms to the purple and black… Read the rest of the article: Haunted Mansion wallpaper, wrapping paper, and fabric!

Argentine hacker [Roni Bandini] modded a 1998 Furby so that it responds to stimulus by rattling off a random quote from Jorge Luis Borges. He calls it "Borgy."

Every year, DJ Riko drops a longform "mixmas" of Christmas mashups; this year's mix is out (MP3 link), featuring everyone from Run DMC to Harry Belafonte to Eels (here's how… Read the rest of the article: Merry Mixmas! It's time again for DJ Riko's badass Christmas mashup

It's the 20th anniversary of Anchorhead, Michael Gentry's seminal horror text adventure; to commemorate the occasion, Ryan Veeder and Jenni Polodna worked with 84 developers to create Cragne Manor, a… Read the rest of the article: Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror "exquisite corpse" text adventure that's a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead

Binding arbitration agreements were formalized in 1925, allowing two corporate entities of roughly equal size to resolve their disputes outside of a court, saving both parties a lot of money,… Read the rest of the article: Uber forces its drivers to arbitrate, rather than sue, but Uber also won't arbitrate

Vegemite has enough salt to be conductive, and is viscous enough to draw distinct traces with on suitable medium (say, toast that has been cooked such that most of the… Read the rest of the article: Literal breadboarding, with toast and Vegemite

When scooter companies like Bird started illegally deploying their gadgets in city streets, there was intense interest in both the street value of the components to be found within each… Read the rest of the article: $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a "personal scooter"

Combine a paperclip, tin foil, a cereal box, and a print out to make the Die Hard John McClane Air Duct Christmas Ornament. PS: Die Hard is a Christmas movie.… Read the rest of the article: An annual Christmas craft tradition: the Die Hard Air Duct ornament

Andrew Smith is Trump's chief of the FTC Consumer Protection Bureau, in charge of investigating companies that abuse Americans — but he can't, because he has previously provided services for… Read the rest of the article: Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook