Vegan shoe company Keep's $97 Ramos midtop sneaker was designed by Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, and will ship in February, with all proceeds going to Planned Parenthood, a vital woman's health… Read the rest of the article: The Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock designed a shoe whose profits will go to Planned Parenthood
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Cory Doctorow Jack Dalrymple, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has ordered an "emergency evacuation" on the unceded treaty lands owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, where protesters have endured potentially… Read the rest of the article: As North Dakota governor orders "emergency evacuation" at Standing Rock, Water Protectors ask court for an injunction
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Cory Doctorow Juno is a "driver-friendly" rideshare service that competes with Uber by paying its drivers more and giving drivers the ability to pick up a fare, get them to install the… Read the rest of the article: Uber is running scared of Juno, a NYC competitor that's kicking its ass
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Cory Doctorow Last weekend, the New York Times published an outstanding, meticulously reported investigative story about Trump's financial conflicts of interest — the sorts of things that could lead to forced divestiture,… Read the rest of the article: Trump is apparently still terrified about financial conflicts so now he's tweeting about flag-burning and CNN
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Cory Doctorow Last summer, Warren Ellis serialized a novel, "Normal," as a series of four novellas; today, they're collected in a single, short book that mainlines a month's worth of terrifying futuristic fiction in one go.
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Cory Doctorow Crowd Supply (previously) is an extremely effective platform for funding open source hardware development, boasting twice the success-rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo; it is also the birthplace of the proclamation… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding powerful open hardware that is truly open and respectful of your rights
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Cory Doctorow Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Ding dong! The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. Most news articles say the cause of death was simple: the election of Donald Trump.… Read the rest of the article: Donald Trump didn't kill the TPP – activism did
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Cory Doctorow The OECD's 2011-2015, 33 country, 215,942-person study of computer skills paints a deceptively grim picture of the average level of computer proficiency around the world — deceptive because it excludes… Read the rest of the article: People really, really suck at using computers
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Cory Doctorow Elly from Microcosm publishing writes: "Our next book has been in the works for years, but as we launch our Kickstarter we find it's become terrifyingly current: Soviet Daughter is… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting Soviet Daughter, a graphic novel memoir of coming of age in Ukraine after the Revolution
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Cory Doctorow The Trump election gave real legitimacy to Europe's fascist parties, including France's Marine Le Pen of the National Front; and in the absence of real, left-win alternatives for populist discontent,… Read the rest of the article: France's next President could be an Islamophobic "Thatcherite" who wants to dismantle the social safety net
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Cory Doctorow In order to get permission to add an extra 20 floors to Trump Tower's plan, Donald Trump had to promise to build public amenities, "including access to restrooms, an atrium,… Read the rest of the article: Trump Tower has two "privately owned public spaces" that anyone is entitled to visit
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Cory Doctorow Ryan Shapiro, the punk Freedom of Information Access ninja, is crowdfunding a warchest to fund his inevitable lawsuits against the Trump government when he subjects it to the same relentless… Read the rest of the article: America's "most prolific" transparency advocate is crowdfunding to force disclosures from Trump
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Cory Doctorow With the passage of the Snoopers Charter earlier this month, the UK has become the most-surveilled "democratic" state in the world, where service providers are required to retain at least… Read the rest of the article: The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history
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Cory Doctorow The Mirai worm — first seen attacking security journalist Brian Krebs with 620gbps floods, then taking down Level 3, Dyn and other hardened, well-provisioned internet giants, then spreading to every… Read the rest of the article: Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm
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Cory Doctorow A ransomware criminal's self-reproducing malicious software spread through a critical network used by the San Francisco light rail system, AKA the Muni, and shut it down; the anonymous criminal —… Read the rest of the article: Ransomware creep accidentally hijacks San Francisco Muni, won't give it back
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Cory Doctorow As George W Bush taught us: "fool me twice, we don't get fooled again."
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Cory Doctorow Unicorn Riot is a media collective that formed in response to the lack of media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tar Sands Blockade; their news comes… Read the rest of the article: Amid a media blackout of the Standing Rock protests, law enforcement targets the rare journalists on the scene
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Cory Doctorow Joe Corre — founder of the Agent Provocateur lingerie stores; son of Sex Pistols impressario Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood– torched £5m worth of punk tat in the… Read the rest of the article: Malcolm McLaren's son torched his punk collection to protest the 40th anniversary of punk "celebrations"
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Cory Doctorow The Auralnauts' wildly successful Star Wars remixes have gone from strength to strength, combining bad lip reading, South Park-ish raunchy humor, and massive dance-parties accompanied by some seriously rockin' tunes.