When the Tories led the UK into its disastrous Brexit referendum, the Conservative cheering squad of Westminster right-wing thinktanks immediately celebrated the impending "wide-ranging … revolution on a scale similar… Read the rest of the article: Theresa May says she won't address climate change at the G20 summit
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Cory Doctorow On my first day at Michigan State University in 1992, a fellow student called me a "liberal" and I was shocked: as a Canadian who was often to the left… Read the rest of the article: America is starting to realize that "liberal/conservative" labels exclude the left
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Cory Doctorow Designer Dani Clode's Third Thumb is a 3D printed robotic prosthetic thumb that goes on the pinky side of your hand, created a motorized, opposable additional thumb that you can… Read the rest of the article: Third Thumb: an opposable prosthetic enhancement
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Cory Doctorow Magali Barbé's short film Strange Beasts depicts a futuristic augmented reality product for kids and parents — a piece of design fiction with a serious sting it its tail. (via… Read the rest of the article: Strange Beasts:short, inspiring/disturbing science fiction movie about augmented reality toys
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Cory Doctorow My latest Locus column is "Be the First One to Not Do Something that No One Else Has Ever Not Thought of Doing Before," and it's about science fiction's addiction… Read the rest of the article: How to write pulp fiction that celebrates humanity's essential goodness
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Cory Doctorow Gabriella Coleman is the hacker anthropologist whose work on the free software movement, Anonymous and the Arab Spring, the politicization of hacking, and the true role of alt-right dank memes… Read the rest of the article: Limn 8: a social science journal issue devoted to hacking
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Cory Doctorow In the wake of CNN threatening to out a critic if he does not limit his speech in the future, former federal prosecutor and First Amendment champion Ken White has… Read the rest of the article: Debullshitifying the free speech debate about CNN and Trump's alt-right wrestling GIF
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Cory Doctorow This document has it all: a neat quantization of the qualitative; a tale told in a single bureaucratic leaf that implies a whole hidden universe of night-scurrying morlocks who tend… Read the rest of the article: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea maintenance checklist
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Cory Doctorow Shirley Yamauchi paid $1,000 for her 27 month old son's United flight from Houston to Boston, in part because the kid is half her size and in part because it's… Read the rest of the article: Mom feared being beaten by United crew, so she didn't complain when her son's seat was given away
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Cory Doctorow Chet Phillips's Monster Zen is a book of 16 beautiful, "Japanese-styled" drawings of monsters, accompanied by haikus by the artist — you can get the book for $24 or get… Read the rest of the article: Gorgeous "Monster Zen" book of Japanese-styled monsters with haiku
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Cory Doctorow From 1993 to 2001, this Serbian middle-school biology textbook sported a cutout of a still from Raising Arizona in which Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter cradle their stolen baby.
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Cory Doctorow Noah Smith (previously) writes in Bloomberg (!) about the "fleecing" of the Gen-X and Boomer middle class — a class that is growing continuously smaller and poorer, thanks to "financial… Read the rest of the article: Bloomberg: Middle-class Americans were "fleeced" by neoliberalism
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Cory Doctorow The New York Times rounds up direct links to several services surveillance opt-out screens, including some I'd never thought to look for (Amazon), as well as instructions for installing tracking… Read the rest of the article: Guide to finding and erasing your online data doppelganger
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Cory Doctorow Redditor/machinist Spdltd was commissioned to create a steampunk, Arduino-powered electromechanical clock that uses a combination of belts, dials and needles arrayed across the wall to tell the time.
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Cory Doctorow A hacker who appears to have ongoing, continuous access to Australia's electronic health care records is selling access to any full record for 0.0089 bitcoin, or about USD22.
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Cory Doctorow Vidangel is the latest attempt (along with services like Clearplay and Sony's own filtering tool) to sell a product that allows cringing, easily triggered evangelicals to skip swear words, sex… Read the rest of the article: Vidangel is a stupid censorship service and we should welcome it anyway
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Cory Doctorow NPR celebrated July 4 by tweeting the Declaration of Independence, one line at a time: when they got to "A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which… Read the rest of the article: Trumplings triggered by NPR's July 4 tweets of the Declaration of Independence
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Cory Doctorow One of the most enduring symbols of 2016's UK Brexit referendum was the huge red "battle bus" with its message, "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund… Read the rest of the article: The guy who thought up the Brexit Bus and its NHS lie says referendum was a "dumb idea"
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Cory Doctorow Animator Chad Essley writes, "The new MC Frontalot (previously) nerdcore video is out for the 4th of July! Celebrate our nation's hostility toward the British crown by listening to Front… Read the rest of the article: Celebrate Independence Day with MC Frontalot's nerdcore rap about free software vs open source
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Cory Doctorow On Thingiverse, Gentlegiant's beautiful, faithful model of the Haunted Mansion front-gate sign to 3D print at any size or remix into your other designs.