Business Amazon's plan for traffic deaths from same-day delivery: deflect blame to anonymous subcontractors Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism After unsuccessful legislative reform, German radicals defy the law to dumpster-dive at grocery stores Cory Doctorow
class war Rideshare companies' effort to kill California employment bill is failing miserably Cory Doctorow
books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
privacy Gawker's new owners demand right to search journalists, ban encrypted email and institute dress code Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Schadenfreude watch: Porno copyright trolls' investors sue, say the grifters they backed stole their money (the grifters say their lawyer stole the money from them first!) Cory Doctorow
Business As Uber's stock craters amid billions in unanticipated losses, a hiring freeze on engineers Cory Doctorow
health Big Pharma's origin: how the Chicago School and private equity shifted medicine's focus from health to wealth Cory Doctorow
corruption A loophole in nonprofit law means that corporate lobbying is at least double the official figure Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Man donates mother's body to science, discovers it was sold to the military for "blast testing" Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Your massive surprise hospital bills are making bank for private equity Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism #29leaks: someone leaked 15 years' worth of data from London's most notorious shell-company factory Cory Doctorow
crime FBI agent describes finding "Frankensteins" and a "cooler full of penises" at an unregulated Arizona body-donation center Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren's banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people 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
late stage capitalism Ex-Fox & Friends host, accused of a Ponzi scheme that turned Indianapolis real-estate investors into slumlords, moves to Portugal Cory Doctorow