apple Apple cleans up Siri's privacy problems, screwing over workers in the process Séamus Bellamy

politics Amazon, Google, Apple and others seeking government favors pay for Trump's $200,000,000 ballroom Ellsworth Toohey

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star wars Chilean Star Wars had beer commercials edited into the action (video) Jason Weisberger

capitalism How private equity firms use public pension funds to screw other workers Thom Dunn

new york Forget the Met Gala, real New Yorkers go to the People's Ball Rusty Blazenhoff

paris Monumental Yayoi Kusama installations at Louis Vuitton stores in Paris Jennifer Sandlin

gop Pathological liar Santos gets green light to attend classified briefings Mark Frauenfelder

Business Quiet quitters of the world, unite and take over! Elías Villoro

corruption On sportswashing, FIFA, and being a critical consumer of the sports you love Jennifer Sandlin

animal rights HelloFresh still using illegal primate labor, says PETA: "Monkeys are chained around the neck and forced to toil" Elías Villoro

Science The Tasmanian Tiger's been extinct since 1936. Should we bring it back with science? Elías Villoro

politics Continuity of Care and the Patient's Bill of Rights Elías Villoro

china China is having some money trouble Devin Nealy

art New streetwear line with art by legendary Black Panther designer Emory Douglas David Pescovitz

mitch mcconnell Trump also fired another watchdog investigating Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell Thom Dunn

qanon The QAnon cult has started appropriating the Punisher skull logo, too Thom Dunn

health For the first time, you can search the database of money that publicly funded researchers in Illinois received from pharma companies Cory Doctorow

health China is still harvesting organs from prisoners and covering it up Cory Doctorow

trump 1 in 14 Trump appointees is a former lobbyist, four times the rate under Obama Cory Doctorow