security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow

museums See Bigfoot's "buttocks imprint" in Blue Ridge, Georgia Jennifer Sandlin

antisemitism Bradley Cooper has a large prosthetic shnozz in his Leonard Bernstein biopic. People are upset. Rob Beschizza

politics "We the Elites" is a new book about an old problem: the U.S. Constitution Elías Villoro

twitter Musk ragequits Twitter Space meeting after journalist asks difficult question about ElonJet, then shuts down the Twitter Space, then shuts down Twitter Spaces entirely Rob Beschizza

poop It's Oregon Trail, but you have dysentery all the time and it doesn't kill you Thom Dunn

censorship Twitter blocks article critical of Elon Musk as "unsafe" Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Live out some '80s nostalgia with this awesome game Boing Boing's Shop

law Prosecutor convenes grand jury to hear Trump evidence Rob Beschizza

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

News 'We have failed' — Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf admits failure on coronavirus 'herd immunity' strategy as COVID deaths multiply Xeni Jardin

youtube Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them Cory Doctorow

politics New Jersey AG says 5 politicians took thousands in cash bribes via envelopes, paper bags, coffee cups Xeni Jardin

Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow

cable company fuckery Why is there so much antitrust energy for Big Tech but not for Big Telco? Cory Doctorow

Minnesota FLDS and Seth Jeffs are now digging into Minnesota Xeni Jardin

google Even as Google was making nice during employee walkout, it was secretly asking the Trump administration to ban email labor organizing Cory Doctorow

eff EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU's Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

politics Beach Week (2018), a film by the Coen Brothers Rob Beschizza

scholarship Predatory journals aren't just a scam: they're also how quacks and corporate shills sciencewash their bullshit Cory Doctorow