uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow

climate change COP27 is the first time the financial cost of climate change is on the agenda Thom Dunn

Unreal estate Ultrarich complain that their superskinny tower is a shoddily-built mess Clive Thompson

History Jayne Mansfield: Viral Warrior Matt Maranian

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amazon Amazon: 'Unlikely' string of events led to Echo recording a family's private chat & sending to some random guy Xeni Jardin

Amazon home assistant recorded and sent private conversation to third party, says Portland woman Rob Beschizza

canada Mystery man found dead in wall of women's washroom Séamus Bellamy

happy mutants Romance writers sought for library residency at my former Toronto workplace Cory Doctorow

Business Private equity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans Cory Doctorow

Sociopaths Trump once thought a bloody man died at Mar-a-Lago and he turned away, upset about the stained floor Carla Sinclair

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

Science How we learn to be helpless—and unlearn it David McRaney

cuba A brief visit to Cuba Lars Forseti

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Building a refurbished playground in the Dominican Republic Milli Arakawa

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