free speech Court sides with cheerleader punished for writing "fuck cheer" Rob Beschizza

scholarship The first-ever close analysis of leaked astroturf comments from China's "50c party" reveal Beijing's cybercontrol strategy Cory Doctorow

Delightful Creatures A basketball "puppy race" at halftime was a big, adorable flop when every pup rebelled (video) Carla Sinclair

adventure What is a "robinsonade?" Mark Frauenfelder

deepfakes Mother arrested for making deepfakes to humiliate daughter's cheerleading squad members Mark Frauenfelder

terrorists Incel blows off own hands trying to make anti-cheerleader bomb, still a wanker Rob Beschizza

trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow

books Winners Take All: Modern philanthropy means that giving some away is more important than how you got it Cory Doctorow

books America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Everyone — not just Europeans — needs to save the internet from the EU's terrible copyright proposal Cory Doctorow

chile Incentives matter: the Mr Market LOOOOOVES death squads Cory Doctorow

hope you vaccinated your kid Cheerleading competition may have been ground zero for mumps outbreak Jason Weisberger

olympics Man who impersonated Kim Jong-un at Olympics kicked in the shin and detained Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Computer-mining poetry from the New York Times's obituary headlines Cory Doctorow

africa Calling bullshit on "leapfrogging" David Pescovitz

law Forced arbitration clauses are a form of wealth transfer to the rich Cory Doctorow

corruption Now that they know the NSA is spying on them, Congress is really worried about domestic surveillance Cory Doctorow

privacy NSA's biggest congressional apologist is outraged that the NSA spied on him and Israel Cory Doctorow