economics Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who's swaying both left and right politicians with talk of "the entrepreneurial state" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Learning to See the Commons David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

AI DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow

History When you think of freedom, remember the Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta Cory Doctorow

Science Our public health data is being ingested into Silicon Valley's gaping, proprietary maw Cory Doctorow

fcc Marriott plans to block personal wifi hotspots Glenn Fleishman

politics University of Iowa students must take Intellectual Freedom classes whether they want to or not Rob Beschizza

Weird Tiny conspiracy notes keep turning up inside sealed groceries in Pennsylvania Ellsworth Toohey

books Here's a terrific search hack for the Internet Archive Book Images Flickr photo stream Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets Free Universal Construction Kit: 3D-printable adapters to connect Lego, Duplo, K'Nex, Stickle Bricks and other systems Rob Beschizza

law Wikipedia bans AI-generated content Rob Beschizza

science fiction Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant dead at 70 Rob Beschizza

apps C64 Graphics Explorer shows 8-bit pixel art the way it was Rob Beschizza

movies WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting Ellsworth Toohey

politics UK's far-right Reform Party looks more like last Tory government with every defection Rob Beschizza

Funny 1882 painting captures the chaos of living with cats Popkin

Technology Stack Overflow is dead, and its toxic community helped kill it Ellsworth Toohey

art The roller coaster designed to kill you Ellsworth Toohey