bad bosses Las Vegas bar demanded $4,000 payment from employee robbed at gunpoint Mark Frauenfelder

scholarship Empirical evidence for the Peter Principle (or, why bosses are so incompetent) Cory Doctorow

Games Saros looks like Returnal's spiritual successor — and that's great news Grant St. Clair

human rights Cyberscam trafficking victims trapped in dangerous Myanmar detention centers Ellsworth Toohey

thrift stores "Charley Varrick"— like a Steve McQueen movie but with a grumpy high school principal starring in his own fantasy Lee Keeler

labor Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days Thom Dunn

superheroes Watch the first trailer for the new Toxic Avenger reboot starring Peter Dinklage Thom Dunn

pigs George Orwell on the real meaning of Animal Farm: get rid of the pigs Thom Dunn

jobs Funny stories of people dramatically resigning from their jobs David Pescovitz

books Someone wrote an existential horror comedy set entirely in Slack and it's great Thom Dunn

Copyfight Adversarial Interoperability Cory Doctorow

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

web theory How abusive bosses and Slack led software engineers to unionize and demand justice Cory Doctorow

happy mutants China's Internet Czar has been purged Cory Doctorow

usausausa The first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy agencies was looking bad for the agencies, so it was shut down Cory Doctorow

law Idaho law lets your boss sue you if you get a better job Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Google tries to define a valid family. Predictable awfulness ensues. Cory Doctorow

politics Trump and Brexit are retaliation for neoliberalism and corruption Cory Doctorow

corruption Merciless reporting on the Chicago Police Department's extortion racket, & the senior officials who covered it up Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek