Business Facebook and Instagram evacuated over bomb threat Xeni Jardin

Scum and villainy Trump campaign uses fallen soldiers' remains as merch-adjacent content after families asked for privacy Jason Weisberger

politics Green Bay police chief backs recruit with anti-government extremist tattoo Rob Beschizza

Culture Tim Ferriss's audience is larger than NYC. He now carries a gun, uses fake names at hotels, and gets monthly death threats Ellsworth Toohey

News Tennessee man freed after month in jail for reposting Trump meme Ellsworth Toohey

Food Collectives and non-profits feed the hungry. Some people want to make it illegal. Elías Villoro

police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow

facebook Mark Zuckerberg has "secret escape passageway" under conference room Rob Beschizza

Technology 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,' by Roger McNamee [BOOKS] Xeni Jardin

web theory Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it Cory Doctorow

terrible names Afghan toddler was named "Donald Trump" for "good fortune," but name has brought family only bad fortune so far Carla Sinclair

youtube Facebook insists that Cambridge Analytica didn't "breach" data, but "misused" it, and they're willing to sue anyone who says otherwise Cory Doctorow

net neutrality Documenting the laughable lies the FCC told at the hearing where it killed Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow

News #BANTRUMP: Why Twitter should ban Donald Trump Mike Monteiro

web theory Trump's big data "secret sauce" sorcery – a much-needed reality check Cory Doctorow

media 64% of women prefer country music stars to creepy evangelical hypocrites Peter Sheridan

media Tabloids: Drunk Obama resigns, Sanders is a Russian spy, Unabomber has a baby Peter Sheridan

police In Texas, a 12 year old Sikh boy was arrested for "terrorism" over a solar charger Cory Doctorow

racism Virginia mayor says Japanese-American concentration camps were a good idea. George Takei's response is perfect. Mark Frauenfelder

makers Notorious Islamophobic mayor of Irving, TX worried Ahmed Mohamed's arrest will negatively impact town police Cory Doctorow