new zealand Official City Wizard fired from New Zealand City after over 20 years of public service Thom Dunn

News Life in prison for New Zealand shooter who killed 51 at two Christchurch mosques Xeni Jardin

article 13 Competition can fix Big Tech, but only if we don't make "bigness" a legal requirement Cory Doctorow

law A report from the Christchurch Call, where the future of "anti-extremist" moderation was debated at the highest levels Cory Doctorow

gwot Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it Cory Doctorow

uk The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts "illegal" or "harmful" material Cory Doctorow

censorship After Christchurch shooting, Australia doubles down on being stampeded into catastrophically stupid tech laws Cory Doctorow

racism Gunman kills 49 in New Zealand mosque shootings Rob Beschizza

Science A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a sea monster Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Cat left in plane's cargo hold Rob Beschizza

word nerds Man wins Spanish Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish Carla Sinclair

medical Freaky truth behind the X-rays of the woman teeming with parasites from eating pork Allan Rose Hill

twitter Xitter XEO exposes vast conspiracy of legal behavior Ellsworth Toohey

meat Someone is mysteriously dumping massive amounts of raw meat in suburban Christchurch trash cans David Pescovitz

crime Rogue roofer smashes tiles then offers to repair them Rob Beschizza

dead media A café that delivers your food through pneumatic tubes Gareth Branwyn

COVID-19 A traveler just brought Tonga its very first Covid case Carla Sinclair

Funny Watch a building collapse as man walks right by, nonplussed David Pescovitz

dupe Watch: pedestrian nonchalantly continues through rubble after wall collapses in street right by him Rob Beschizza

drugs are bad Winning greyhound tests positive for meth Jason Weisberger