social media Instagram's terrifying false positive nearly ruined a tech writer's life Mark Frauenfelder
documentaries The Forever Prisoner, a documentary about the US torture machine by Alex Gibney Elías Villoro
art Venera Kazarova is an artist who incorporates her sculptures into real-life spaces through stop motion Popkin
hertz Car rental nightmare shows how Hertz oversells inventory and extorts stuck customers Rob Beschizza
novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn
class war Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it Cory Doctorow
Games Apple removed a teen's award-winning anti-Trump game "Bad Hombre" because they can't tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps Cory Doctorow
corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow
Business How Amazon's crackdown on dirty sellers has made it easier for dirty sellers to kill good sellers' accounts Cory Doctorow
politics Australia put an algorithm in charge of its benefits fraud detection and plunged the nation into chaos Cory Doctorow
books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow
