education Liberty University, toxic site for sex crimes, says the big problem is the that White House leaked evidence of sex crimes coverup Mark Frauenfelder
racism Marsha Blackburn says Black judicial nominee with past speeding tickets has a "rap sheet" Carla Sinclair
police brutality Court filing: Prosecutor told cops to delete photos showing they beat up a disabled 62-year-old man Rob Beschizza
facebook Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: "This is our new battleground" Cory Doctorow
twitter Authenticating a video showing hundreds of kneeling people in shackles and blindfolds on a Chinese railroad platform Cory Doctorow
human rights Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves Cory Doctorow
human rights Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
videos Talking Casa Jasmina, a house of the future designed for people, not corporations, with Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling Cory Doctorow
trumpism The DoJ's top crypto warrior wants "strong" encryption that he can break at will Cory Doctorow
surveillance Case study of LAPD and Palantir's predictive policing tool: same corruption; new, empirical respectability Cory Doctorow