The Sackler family (previously) made more money than the Rockefellers when their family business, Purdue Pharma, misled the public about the addictiveness of its flagship opioid, Oxycontin, and induced doctors… Read the rest of the article: US prosecutors say the "bankrupt" Sacklers still have billions hidden away
Hong Kong joins the ranks of other autocratic nations that have banned face coverings in the name of national security: Sri Lanka, France, the Netherlands, Canada, etc (such bans have… Read the rest of the article: Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters
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In 2016, a Facebook user called the Austrian Green Party politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek "a corrupt oaf," a "traitor" and a member of a "fascist party." Glawischnig-Piesczek secured an Austrian court… Read the rest of the article: Europe's highest court Facebook verdict hits a new low for technomagical thinking
Back in 2011, I wrote a young adult novella called "Martian Chronicles," which I podcasted as it was in progress; it's a story about the second wave of wealthy colonists… Read the rest of the article: "Martian Chronicles": Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars
Your cable company advertises one price, but charges another, much higher one: on average, your real bill will be 24% higher than the price you were promised.
Cleveland's Stephanie "Crochetverse" Pokorny created a freehand, crocheted Alien Xenomorph costume for her (incredibly lucky!) son, Jake, adding glow-in-the-dark fabric paint accents to make it luminescent. It's completely amazing.
Coraline Ada Ehmke's Hippocratic License is a software license that permits the broad swathe of activities enabled by traditional free/open licenses, with one exception it bars use by: "individuals, corporations,… Read the rest of the article: The Hippocratic License: A new software license that prohibits uses that contravene the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Vaping giants like Juul attracted billions in investment from tobacco companies by reversing decades of progress in weaning children off of nicotine, thanks to deliberately targeting children with advertisements and… Read the rest of the article: Nobody knows how to quit vaping
Google has long allowed you to delete all the data it's stored on you, or to turn off collection, but turning off collection altogether made its services a lot less… Read the rest of the article: Google will now allow you to set your data history to self-destruct
Kaja Robinson is 53 and has a daughter about to go off to college, but she is still embroiled in bizarre, kafkaesque disputes over the $17,000 student loan she took… Read the rest of the article: Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it
Paper Girls is Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's outstanding, Stranger Things-esque all-girl time-travel adventure comic, and after four years, the pair have completed the story, tying up the increasingly… Read the rest of the article: Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang bring Paper Girls in for a perfect landing
UNC's Paul Jones writes, "Ohio and North Carolina have for years been fighting about which state own the right to say they were the Home of Aviation or the First… Read the rest of the article: North Carolina's new botanical "First in Fly-Eat" license plates
Consent Academy's Sar Surmick writes: "We need to hack culture and improve how people behave around sex and consent. Media today gives us terrible depictions of consent: Men who keep… Read the rest of the article: Filmmakers and donors: help make short movies about the beauty of consent!
40 years of Reaganomic sociopathy has managed to convince hundreds of millions of otherwise sensible people that big, social problems are caused by their personal choices, and not (say) by… Read the rest of the article: Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution
Resource Generation is an organization of young people who inherited enough to be in the top decile of America's wealth distribution, who are determined to give away those inheritances in… Read the rest of the article: Resource Generation: rich kids who are determined to give away their parents' money and make America more fair and equal
Mike Lake's mashup of Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" with "Scales and Arpeggios" from Disney's 1970 animated feature "The Aristocats" is plain fabulous. Lizzo plays the scene far better than Eva Gabor… Read the rest of the article: Lizzo vs The Aristocats
The CN Tower is a giant radio antenna and tourist attraction on Toronto's lakeshore; it's an iconic part of the city's skyline, and has been since it was built at… Read the rest of the article: CN Tower's management company claims that any picture of the landmark building is a trademark violation
In 2008, Congress authorized a $700b bailout of the finance sector, with almost no strings attached (notably, the bailout did not require banks that were receiving public subsidies to abstain… Read the rest of the article: What happened to the 2008 bailout money?
Aestetix writes, "On Tuesday, October 8th, for the very first time ever, the new issue of 2600 will be released digitally in non-DRM PDF format. We know there are many… Read the rest of the article: 2600 Magazine is finally available as a digital publication
