Business Ten principles for user-protection in hostile states Cory Doctorow

twitter Mastodon users embrace columnist's funny error about a fictitious "John Mastodon" Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes Adobe replacing old Pantone spot colors with black when you load files using them Rob Beschizza

AI Can Artificial Intelligence solve America's housing crisis? Zillow seems to think so Thom Dunn

tech Venture capitalists launch Future, an "optimistic" tech site Rob Beschizza

encryption Signal's response to Homeland Security's grand jury subpoena for user data is basically "You get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir" Mark Frauenfelder

Court rejects TSA qualified immunity: Government genital massages can be video-recorded Mark Frauenfelder

robots Watch a desktop "laser factory" fabricate a drone that flies itself right off the machine David Pescovitz

fbi After being investigated for his blog post, Cory Doctorow sent this FOIA request to the FBI Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes Cory Doctorow investigated by FBI Rob Beschizza

economics Economist Richard Murphy explains what money and taxes actually are and how they work Thom Dunn

oceans Stunning underwater scenes drawn by hand in an 1860s submersible David Pescovitz

Disney How Disney is screwing the author of numerous best-selling movie novelizations Thom Dunn

science fiction Cory Doctorow has a Kickstarter for an audiobook edition of the third Little Brother novel Mark Frauenfelder

finance Cory Doctorow: America's economy is cooked Mark Frauenfelder

art Make your own GIANT sidewalk chalk with a Pringles can, plaster of paris, and tempera paint David Pescovitz

writing Cory Doctorow experiments with AI writing partner Sudowrite Mark Frauenfelder

interviews Pandemic: An Interview with The Wire creator David Simon Danny Greenwald

Games The new, GPT-3-powered version of AI Dungeon is scarily good Mark Frauenfelder