A fool and his money... $44B to become the most followed Twitter user and owner of a failing business Jason Weisberger
Possum by Night A live version of The Mountain Goats' Possum by Night, and an essay celebrating the song Jennifer Sandlin
the GQP Liz Cheney gets "kicked out" of Wyoming's GOP for being a conservative Republican Carla Sinclair
ted cruz A Goddard Space Flight Center scientist explains why Ted Cruz's NASA threat is ridiculous Mark Frauenfelder
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
politics Twitter censures UK Tory Party for changing its blue-check account name to "FactCheckUK" during the prime ministerial debates Cory Doctorow
facebook Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users Cory Doctorow