the nineties Look at this old commercial to teach stoners how to be professional game testers Mark Frauenfelder
crime Private Christian college Liberty University to pay $14m fine for refusing to disclose campus crimes for years Rob Beschizza
privacy How voice data is being used with AI to generate "predictive" medical diagnoses Elías Villoro
academia Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs Elías Villoro
Jen Psaki Jen Psaki has great fun with reporter's question on universities that "indoctrinate" students Carla Sinclair
tabloids China's secret war on America, a Fox News sex scandal, and a space-time wormhole in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
security After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits Cory Doctorow
health For the first time, you can search the database of money that publicly funded researchers in Illinois received from pharma companies Cory Doctorow
tabloids Johnny Depp dying, Caitlyn Jenner's baby, and the sexiest man alive, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
elections Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren calls for a zero-emissions military, serviced by zero-emissions contractors Cory Doctorow
twitter A megathread of dirty industry secrets that you'll be glad you know even as you wish you didn't Cory Doctorow
education Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide Cory Doctorow
Space Congress may fund the search for intelligent life in space as they can't find any in Washington Séamus Bellamy
happy mutants The citation graph is one of humankind's most important intellectual achievements Dario Taraborelli
