Business Big Tech: "If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us, it means China will win!" Cory Doctorow

politics Donald Trump's super PAC promised a Chinese millionaire access, influence in exchange for a secret $2 million donation Cory Doctorow

dystopia Microplastics found in every semen test sample in study Natalie Dressed

twitter Twitter users will no longer be able to hide their blue checks Rob Beschizza

gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

again with the windmills Trump's bizarre anti-windmill fetish will never stop Mark Frauenfelder

magic Ghostly magical castle appears in the clouds over eastern China David Pescovitz

breakfast The secret history of Everything Bagels Thom Dunn

trump Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow

Business TikTok owner ByteDance launches new deal with Chinese government Xeni Jardin

trumpism Wisconsin commissioned an independent report on how to fix the Foxconn deal. Result: it can't be done. Cory Doctorow

Business Foxconn promised it would do something with the empty buildings it bought in Wisconsin, but they're still empty (still no factory, either) Cory Doctorow

trumpism Foxconn's inconsistent, chaotic behavior in Wisconsin looks awfully grifty Cory Doctorow

Business The Chinese Communist Party's newspaper has spun out an incredibly lucrative censorship business Cory Doctorow

Business Signs that China's real-estate bubble will burst and take the economy with it Cory Doctorow

trumpism Delayed, not saved: Foxconn's Wisconsin "factory" announcement is a bid to help Trump save face Cory Doctorow

trump Nicaragua sprints deeper into fascism Séamus Bellamy

smartphones Thanks to Doc Pop, there's going to be a yo-yo emoji Rusty Blazenhoff