facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn
conspiracy theories Man claims Walgreens' fridges are the gateway to the apocalypse (video) Mark Frauenfelder
debt celing Can Biden issue a trillion-dollar platinum coin to instantly lift the debt ceiling? Mark Frauenfelder
surveillance Evan Greer's "Surveillance Capitalism" is the internet's new official protest song Thom Dunn
police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow
california California's housing bubble is spilling over into poor and exurban neighborhoods, creating waves of crises Cory Doctorow
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow
Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
china Thousands of elderly Hong Kongers march in solidarity with young human rights activists Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's beleaguered chief exec says the extradition bill is "dead" but won't make it official Cory Doctorow
