leaks #TelegramGate: leaks show Puerto Rico's appointed officials mocking the dead as hurricanes devastate the island Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Puerto Rico didn't suffer a "natural disaster": it was looted and starved long before the hurricanes Cory Doctorow
class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow
disasters How anarchist organizers in rural Puerto Rico rebooted their power grid after the privatized power company abandoned them Cory Doctorow
scholarship Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria death toll is 70 times higher than the official count Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow
usausausa $300,000,000,000+: 2017's American "natural disaster" bill was by far the highest in history Cory Doctorow
corruption The 2-person Montana company Whitefish Energy just lost its $300M contract to fix Puerto Rico's grid Cory Doctorow
climate San Juan mayor barred from speaking on Trump's Puerto Rico relief conference call Cory Doctorow
History Hurricane Maria started in 1898: how America spent more than a century brutalizing Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Hurricane Relief Bookstore: DRM-free science fiction ebooks to benefit Houston, the Caribbean, and Florida Cory Doctorow
humorless networks Fox flies into a rage over A&W's updated bear mascot — even though it was just a joke (video) Carla Sinclair
mike pence Oops! Mike Pence scolds Biden's classified docs mishap — before docs were found in his own home (video) Carla Sinclair
studies Gel manicures lead to "cell death and cancer-causing mutations," says new study Carla Sinclair
astrophysics Scientists create observable "baby wormhole" simulation using new quantum processor Thom Dunn