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books McAtlas documents, analyzes, and celebrates the international multiformity of McDonald's Ruben Bolling

capitalism The failed promises of exporting American-style capitalism Elías Villoro

qanon shaman In prison interview, QAnon Shaman shares paranoid fantasies about the Deep State's "two-tiered slavery system" Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets This training can launch your new career in real estate management Boing Boing's Shop

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events Crowdfunding a symposium on a green, postcapitalist economics in Brussels, Nov 11 Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow

Business New York City raised minimum wage to $15, and its restaurants outperformed the nation Cory Doctorow

music End.Game: a synth album from 19A0 Rob Beschizza

security Nest's "ease of use" imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker's playground Cory Doctorow

Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema

humor Trump's nuclear holocaust is "way bigger than the old Holocaust" Cory Doctorow

Science Podcasts, positivism and "explainerism" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Augmented Reality is a Massively Multiplayer Online world Raph Koster

Business Independent economists: TPP will kill 450,000 US jobs; 75,000 Japanese jobs, 58,000 Canadian jobs Cory Doctorow

game of thrones A director on Game of Thrones' epic White Walker battle Chris Weitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Ad-hoc museums of a failing utopia: photos of Soviet shop-windows Cory Doctorow

President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin