Becky Stern writes, "My elderly cat passed away earlier this month, so I spent some mourning time stitching up these embroidered cat patches based on photos of my kitty Beatrice.… Read the rest of the article: Make: hand-embroidered patches based on photos of your beloved cat
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Cory Doctorow Bruce Sterling's short story "The Beachcomber of Novi Kotor" is a monologue by a rogue Montenegran artist-roboticist, delivered at the 85th Venice Biennale, in a world where climate change has… Read the rest of the article: The Balkan blobject robot at the 2073 Venice Biennale
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Cory Doctorow Petya is a well-known ransomware app that has attained a new, deadly virulence, with thousands of new infection attempts hitting Kaspersky Lab's honeypots; security firm Avira attributes this new hardiness… Read the rest of the article: A new ransomware strain is seemingly using a leaked NSA cyberweapon to race around the planet
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Cory Doctorow More than a quarter of New York City lives without broadband, thanks to the sweetheart deals the city has cut with Verizon and the other big telcos, which chargessome of… Read the rest of the article: America's leading Net Neutrality campaigner is suing NYC to fix its broken internet
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Cory Doctorow The EU had been expected to fine Google a little over €1B for its anti-competitive practice of promoting its own shopping service over competitors' in search results: today's €2.42B comes… Read the rest of the article: EU fines Google €2.42B for anti-competitive behaviour
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Cory Doctorow The Bank of International Settlements — the "central bank for central bankers" — has released its latest annual report, warning that the looming debt crises in China, Hong Kong and… Read the rest of the article: Bank of International Settlements warns of global economic crash, "with a vengeance"
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Cory Doctorow After the civil war, formerly enslaved people bought about 15 million acres across the US (mostly in the south), but those landowners lacked clear legal title and also often did… Read the rest of the article: How an obscure law allowed white, rich developers to steal African-Americans' land for a century
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Cory Doctorow The Flux chair is a $130, 12lb "origami-style" polypropylene lounge chair designed by Douwe Jacobs; it sets up in minutes and is stable and lovely (there's also a $65 kids'… Read the rest of the article: Origami lounge-chairs that flat-pack to the size of a briefcase
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Cory Doctorow The Australian Attorney General and a key Australian minister have published a memo detailing the demand they plan on presenting to the next Five Eyes surveillance alliance meeting, which will… Read the rest of the article: Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada
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Cory Doctorow In April, Donald Trump ordered a massive strike against Syria to retaliate for an alleged chemical weapons attack against civilians, despite widely circulated US intelligence that said that no chemical… Read the rest of the article: Leaked transcript: US soldier and security advisor aghast at Trump's reckless Syrian strike
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Cory Doctorow As the Supreme Court makes ready to rule on the blatant gerrymandering in Wisconsin, the AP has conducted a study using "a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage" to… Read the rest of the article: Republicans are the primary beneficiaries of gerrymandering
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Cory Doctorow Sign Language Interpreter during Public Enemy performance But as always, don't read the comments.
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Cory Doctorow A Pew survey found that the majority of millennials have visited a public library this year, making them the most prolific library-using generation. An ALA spokesperson attributed this to the… Read the rest of the article: Millennials, women and college grads are most prolific library users
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Cory Doctorow Jennifer Raff — a bioanthropologist and geneticist who researches and teaches at U Kansas and U Texas — provides some excellent advice and context on how to read a scientific… Read the rest of the article: A non-scientist's guide to reading scientific papers
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Cory Doctorow The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's merciless mashup of the UK's bumbling pound-shop Thatcher with Monty Python's classic work of historical documentary is bound to infuriate the reactionary wing of the Pythons,… Read the rest of the article: Theresa May and the Holy Grail
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Cory Doctorow The eminently electable Jeremy Corbyn, whose exemplary, inclusive election manifesto rescued the Labour Party (including its traitorous establishment Blairite wing) from history's dustbin and delivered a brutal blow to the… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Jeremy Corbyn addresses Glastonbury
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Cory Doctorow After shooting Philando Castile dead during a traffic stop — a killing that was livestreamed on Facebook by Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds — the police obtained a secret warrant for… Read the rest of the article: Philando Castile's killers secretly tried to order Facebook to let them spy on Castile's girlfriend
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Cory Doctorow From 1989 to 1994, the public broadcaster TV Ontario ran Prisoners of Gravity, a brilliant science fiction TV show that used a goofy framing device (a host trapped in a… Read the rest of the article: Remembering Prisoners of Gravity, the greatest science fiction TV show of all time
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Cory Doctorow The CBC asked me to write an editorial for their package about Canadian identity and politics, timed with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the settler state on indigenous… Read the rest of the article: Canada: Trump shows us what happens when "good" politicians demand surveillance powers
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Cory Doctorow Every day for the past year, the government of Bahrain has shut off the internet in Duraz between 7PM and 1AM, making this the longest internet shutdown in the history… Read the rest of the article: For one year, the internet in a town in Bahrain has been switched off every day