publishing New version of The Hobbit will include 50+ sketches by JRR Tolkien Thom Dunn

scotland 90-year-old Scotsman accidentally builds a Hobbit House Thom Dunn

uk Anatomy of how crooks use financial secrecy in the UK and New Zealand to rip off international investors with impunity Cory Doctorow

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

global logistics The shortcomings of the European food supply chain  Katherine Hreib

recycling The US exports its plastic waste. But now other countries are rejecting it. Thom Dunn

propaganda The Washington Times demonstrates how to fake an Antifa attack Thom Dunn

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videos Hasan Minhaj roasts Justin Trudeau on climate hypocrisy Cory Doctorow

police Uganda installs Huawei's AI-powered facial recognition surveillance system 'nationwide' Xeni Jardin

Business Trump and Tim Cook had dinner, Trump says Apple CEO made 'very compelling argument' to help Apple get richer Xeni Jardin

china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

uk No Deal Brexit will lead to "putrefying stockpiles of rubbish" and "slurry" Cory Doctorow

class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow