trumpism A law-enforcement agency is trying to figure out who owns the bots that hacked the FCC's Net Neutrality comment period, but the FCC is obstructing justice Cory Doctorow

net neutrality Ajit Pai says the FTC is will guard against ISPs abusing a world without Net Neutrality, but the FTC had no authority to act in history's most prominent telcoms abuses Cory Doctorow

web theory 100 million Americans live in areas where every single ISP has admitted to violating net neutrality Cory Doctorow

crime We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food Rob Beschizza

youtube Don't be fooled by scammer deepfakes Grant St. Clair

Delightful Creatures California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished Jason Weisberger

music The schizophrenic Chicago artist who became an outsider rock legend Ellsworth Toohey

Games Grand Theft Auto 6 opens pre-orders, reveals cover art Grant St. Clair

DIY Man supercharges a child's pink ride-on car, sends it flying Popkin

Games Exploring Grand Theft Auto 4's hidden history Grant St. Clair

politics Saul Goodman returns to celebrate America's 250th Grant St. Clair

politics Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden Rob Beschizza

Funny Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people Grant St. Clair

Internet An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Mark Russell's new graphic novel explores the strange comfort of cults Gareth Branwyn

garden Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor Jason Weisberger

Technology Kevin Kelly rereads his big weird book from 1994 and mostly stands by it Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Anthropic's most powerful model comes with a kill switch aimed at you Ellsworth Toohey

nazis i hate these guys Noted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president Jason Weisberger

fraud Sam Bankman-Fried has found one more scam: clemency Jason Weisberger