Business Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in Cory Doctorow

law Cartoon Network "severs ties" with Rick and Morty co-creator over domestic violence case Rob Beschizza

Delightful Creatures December 5 is "Celebrate Shelter Pets Day" Jennifer Sandlin

cake Chocolate cake smeared on Madame Tussaud's waxwork model of King Charles III Mark Frauenfelder

music Remembering Sneaky Snake and Tom T. Hall Jennifer Sandlin

christianity Evangelical Christian Furries are scared of being outed as homophobes Thom Dunn

memes NFT ape holders can actually use multiple NFT slurp juices, and also might be racist Thom Dunn

footage The right but perhaps incorrect way to deal with a HOA Rob Beschizza

psychology A new neuroscience book argues that our brains aren't computers — they're the internet Thom Dunn

AI OpenAI discovers its visual AI can be fooled by written notes Clive Thompson

covers A pay-what-you-want holiday music compilation raising money to save independent music venues Thom Dunn

News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow