movies VHS horror movies are corrupting our children! A "20/20 Special Report" from 1987 David Pescovitz

trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow

History Hurricane Maria started in 1898: how America spent more than a century brutalizing Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow

apple NYU grad student goes undercover in Chinese iPhone factory and it ain't pretty Carla Sinclair

censorship Watch Pages of Death, the long-lost anti-porn public information film Rob Beschizza

Vintage Weird Bizarre illustrations from old men's adventure magazines Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Jailer-owned "Christian business" forced inmates to make cornhole games Mark Frauenfelder

politics Zuckerberg: facts get in the way of free speech Jason Weisberger

Psychonauts, please take a pass on peyote Allan Rose Hill

tech Britain's online safety rules come into force, and sites are already shutting down. Rob Beschizza

American Cuisine McDonald's turns dystopian death game into Happy Meal Ellsworth Toohey

social media How to host an entire website on Bluesky Thom Dunn

robots Factory robot convinces 12 other robots to go on strike Thom Dunn

arrests Head of elite $42K preschool arrested for encouraging "dad" to send sex video of boy (video) Carla Sinclair

AI I interviewed the AI ghost of a famous dead porn star Thom Dunn

Comic Books "Alter Ego" is a great new crime novel about IP, AI, and comic book industry con artists Thom Dunn

Comics "Public Domain" explores comic books exploitative past through family drama Thom Dunn

News Burglar busted after getting distracted by bedside book Allan Rose Hill