Since 1987, Doonesbury has been pricking Trump's bubble, and Trump hates it; Trump even instructed the ghost writer on "his" "book" Surviving at the Top to devote several pages to… Read the rest of the article: #SAD: Doonesbury's collected Trump strips afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted
Here's my reading (MP3) of Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back, written for EFF Deeplinks on the morning of the EU's catastrophic decision to vote in the… Read the rest of the article: Podcast: Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.
All of Hong Kong was devastated by the violence of Super Typhoon Mangkhut this week, but there's something really striking about the damage to Hong King Disneyland — a perfect… Read the rest of the article: Photos: Hong Kong Disneyland in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Mangkhut
Since 2011, Andy Gracie has been selectively breeding flies to thrive under the harsh environmental conditions on Titan, Saturn's largest moon: dark, cold (-179.2C), and with very low atmospheric pressure.
California's best-in-America Net Neutrality law goes a long way to restoring the protections that Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai destroyed when he unilaterally and illegally repealed the FCC's national Net… Read the rest of the article: Ajit Pai: California net neutrality law is "illegal"
Redditor AbeFroman21 posted that he and his family are without power or internet due to Hurricane Florence, and that Verizon has throttled their internet access to an unusable trickle, offering… Read the rest of the article: North Carolina Verizon customers, trapped by Hurricane Florence, say they're being throttled and upsold
A guy named "Aaron" has been pitching Reddit moderators and other influential Redditors on their participation in a lucrative scam to inflate the popularity of posts about different cryptocurrencies, using… Read the rest of the article: Anatomy of a Reddit cryptocurrency spam-factory
PACER (previously) is a paywall that charges you every time you look up the US's public domain Federal court records; for years, activists have railed against its existence, liberating key… Read the rest of the article: Georgia Republican introduces legislation to kill PACER, the outrageous paywall around the US justice system
With nativism and xenophobia on the rise, Americans are increasingly required to "prove" that they are actually Americans: whether it's at a border checkpoint (far from any border), or in… Read the rest of the article: Birtherism for everyone: Kansas woman told birth certificate can't be used for passport renewal
Oakland, like San Francisco, has an out-of-control homeless crisis fueled by out-of-control housing prices; like San Francisco (where aid for homelessness can include tents to make outdoor sleeping more comfortable… Read the rest of the article: Oakland to expand managed homeless shantytowns of prefab sheds
MJ Carlson calls this photo from a 1980s computer science textbook "the most glorious stock photo of all time." She is correct.
The record on "active shooter" fatalities is fragmented; as a result, the AMA researchers who published Lethality of Civilian Active Shooter Incidents With and Without Semiautomatic Rifles in the United… Read the rest of the article: AMA study: shooters armed with semiautomatic rifles kill twice as many people
The revelation that Google had been secretly creating a censored, surveilling search product (codenamed Project Dragonfly) in order to re-enter the Chinese market prompted more than 1,000 googlers to sign… Read the rest of the article: More googlers are quitting over the company's plan to launch a censored, surveilling search product in China
Even before the election of Donald Trump, America's pearl-clutching class has been invoking James Madison and his fear of "impetuous majorities" and his desire for "majority rule based on reason… Read the rest of the article: Our political upheaval wasn't caused by mob rule, but by institutions designed to preserve elite oversight
Daniel writes, "An obsessive programmer, frustrated with not only the inefficiencies of mainstream OSes like Windows, but what he sees as their 'imperialistic oppression,' built an entire operating system using… Read the rest of the article: An "obsessive," "anti-imperialist" Turing Complete computer language with only one command
For 500,000 KRW (443 USD), an Uncle Service will send a rough-looking, hulking man to your bullied kid's school to warn the bullies to stop picking on them — or… Read the rest of the article: Korean 'Uncle Service' lets you hire thugs to intimidate your kids' bullies
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the political opposition who showed up in Russia's streets was old and grey: people who had lived through the Soviet era and then… Read the rest of the article: Russia's growing anti-Putin vanguard is young and fearless
Google's Project Dragonfly was a secret prototype search engine intended to pave the way for the company's return to China; it featured censored search results that complied with Chinese state… Read the rest of the article: Google's censored Chinese search engine links every search to the user's phone number
One of Trump's border officials told Politico that the administration is planning to permanently bar Canadians who invest in or start legal cannabis businesses in the US or Canada from… Read the rest of the article: Trump threatens to permanently bar Canadian legal weed investors from entering the USA
Chicago's tourism sector is booming, with a record 55,000,000 visitors to the city last year, and revenue up this year by 10.4% to $1.45B: but workers aren't seeing those gains.
