music Is the acapella version of "Caravan of Love" by The Housemartins a Christmas song? Elías Villoro

comedy Lost in time: the fading fame of Andy Kaufman Yoy Luadha

tabloids King Charles to abdicate, and JonBenet Ramsay's killers caught in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Internet The man in charge of Time on the Internet is retiring Thom Dunn

copyright Winnie the Pooh is now officially public domain Thom Dunn

star trek The only Star Trek phaser rifle ever made is up for auction. Starting bid: $250,000 Mark Frauenfelder

aviation The American Institute of Aeronautics' first official UFO conference Thom Dunn

cyberpunk Interview with Mondo 2000's RU Sirius on the internet's techno-utopian past and clusterf*cked present Gareth Branwyn

Technology Steve Steinberg, hacker, writer, friend (1970-2020) David Pescovitz

chicago The naming of 'Inside Vladimir' Kevin Reome

manga Yoshiharu Tsuge: the first manga artist who used his personal life as story material Mark Frauenfelder

Old school The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back! Cory Doctorow

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

web theory Distinguishing between "platforms" and "aggregators" in competition law Cory Doctorow

Business Behind the One-Way Mirror: EFF's "deep dive into corporate surveillance" Cory Doctorow

tabloids The trial of the century, Epstein's killer exposed, and Obama's hatred, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

privacy Apple poses a false dichotomy between "privacy" and "competition" Cory Doctorow

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

monopolism Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies Cory Doctorow