john oliver John Oliver takes on predatory timeshare and timeshare exit industries Jennifer Sandlin

real estate Predatory landlords are buying up trailer parks en masse Thom Dunn

scams Social media is being overwhelmed with ads for scammy mail-order ADHD startups Thom Dunn

scams A vulnerable old lady needed her door handle fixed. A high-pressure door salesman got a £5,700 check out of her Rob Beschizza

data breach Zappos Data Breach consolation might be the most egregious one yet Thom Dunn

happy mutants Bloomberg: Middle-class Americans were "fleeced" by neoliberalism Cory Doctorow

books Zena Sharman's "Queering Death" series tackles end of life care for LGBTQ+ people Elías Villoro

nyc "Museum of the Revolution" documentary is a brutal monument to predatory capitalism Greg Nussen

climate change Water futures are "going to be ugly" Elías Villoro

podcasts What would Bartleby the Scrivener click on? Elías Villoro

books Books I'd sell my soul to read again for the first time. A.E. Gómez

capitalism Corporations, capitalism and conceptions of the self A.E. Gómez

apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

Business The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy Cory Doctorow

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

Business Beyond the gig economy: "platform co-ops" that run their own apps Cory Doctorow

Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Stock buybacks: how Wall Street has created "profits without prosperity" Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow