music Kickstarting a cover of GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS with mashup legend dj BC and friends! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Cookie Monster performs Tom Waits's "Hell Broke Luce" Cory Doctorow

music Cassette Store Day is coming, when you'll be able to pick up the Beastles "Ill Submarine"! Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Merry Mixmas 2017: DJ Riko drops another album of festive mashups Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Merry Mixmas: another mashed up Christmas with DJ Riko Cory Doctorow

happy mutants dj BC has your Christmas mashups covered with this year's amazing Santastic holiday music sampler Cory Doctorow

vehicles New York using roadside sound meters to fine drivers of obnoxiously loud vehicles David Pescovitz

politics Alabama attorney general says he will "vigorously prosecute" anyone who uses abortion pills Rob Beschizza

police Black U.S. Army officer sues the Virginia cops who told him he "should be afraid" of them and roughed him up Rob Beschizza

ftc FTC proposes new rule to ban non-compete clauses Andrew Yi

police Iowa Police Chief arrested after selling black market military machine guns Thom Dunn

police Tampa fires cop who dragged handcuffed woman into jail Rob Beschizza

History Bastards of the Party: a ­documentary about why gangs emerged in L.A. Elías Villoro

scams Call center scammers looted $10bn last year from U.S. Rob Beschizza

marijuana NY's slow rollout of legal weed shops encourages the black market Jason Weisberger

law North Carolina Chick-fil-A fined for paying workers in Chick-fil-A vouchers and having minors operating trash compactor Rob Beschizza

politics Arizona's shipping container border barrier is illegal and ineffective Jennifer Sandlin

apple Good news: FBI says Apple's end-to-end encryption is "deeply concerning" Mark Frauenfelder

movies EO, Jerry Skolimowski's new film, is about much more than a wandering donkey Elías Villoro

books Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz