donald trump "Whack Job" slur spurs E. Jean Carroll to push damages to $10 million in Trump sexual abuse case Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Twitter updates terms of service to allow it to use posts and user data to train AI Rob Beschizza

Orange is the new Trump Trump promises another report Jason Weisberger

machine learning Disney, Netflix aggressively hiring AI Content Scabs amid writer/actor strike Thom Dunn

privacy Apple says it will pull Messages and FaceTime if UK forces back-door access to its encryption Mark Frauenfelder

Just another delaying tactic Trump struggles to find an attorney willing to beclown themselves Jason Weisberger

sexual predators Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll Carla Sinclair

predatory lending An 81-year-old woman is losing her home to a predatory lender Jason Weisberger

racism Florida textbook publisher removes mention of Rosa Parks's race from section about the Black civil rights icon David Pescovitz

podcast Don't drink bleach, folks Jennifer Sandlin

COINTELPRO COINTELPRO is alive and well – Alphabet Boys Podcast Elías Villoro

ftc FTC proposes new rule to ban non-compete clauses Andrew Yi

carceral state 30 years of Prison Radio—and new updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case Elías Villoro

law Elon Musk blames @elonjet for on-ground stalker—and says he'll sue him for tweeting public records of his jet travels Rob Beschizza

books Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz

movies 1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor Elías Villoro

racism Racist Torrance cops texted about killing black children, used slurs to mock black man they killed and his family Rob Beschizza

Vaccine mandates Colbert updates us on some January 6th insurrectionists Jason Weisberger

snake oil Florida family indicted for selling toxic industrial bleach as a cure for COVID-19, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, autism, malaria, hepatitis, Parkinson's, herpes, HIV Mark Frauenfelder

law Google prevails in long-running fight to establish API fair use Rob Beschizza