online communities Envision the future of digital public spaces at the inaugural New Public Festival, January 12-14 Thom Dunn
politics Kash Patel finds free speech inconvenient, opens investigation into chat groups warning about ICE Ellsworth Toohey
Fall of the Republic Speaker Johnson blames Renee Good for her own killing as ICE agents cite her death to threaten civilians Jason Weisberger
politics White House security document warns of European "civilizational erasure" threat Ellsworth Toohey
security Video of the suspected Chinese spy balloon (aka "civilian airship") floating over Montana David Pescovitz
Science "My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy." David Pescovitz
aviation 'Highly likely' Iran shot down Ukrainian airliner that killed 176 people, U.S. officials say — and probably an accident Xeni Jardin
Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow
security William Barr's terrible, stupid idea to ban working crypto is slightly less terrible and stupid than earlier ideas Cory Doctorow
Honor First® Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and told he had no right to a lawyer Mark Frauenfelder
News Before Robert Bowers killed 11 in synagogue, on Gab he offered to help a white supremacist hate group dox a journalist Xeni Jardin
