books The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the "deep state" is just nerds versus grifters Cory Doctorow
corruption George Mason economics department admits it sold hiring control to anonymous, super-rich donors Cory Doctorow
research Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views Jennifer Sandlin
politics Meet Arizona State Representative Rachel Jones, who loves guns and "freedom" Jennifer Sandlin
MAGA cultists NY Times headline from 2025: "America's emerging dictatorship has liberals on edge. But for some, the stability and absence of hard choices is a welcome change." Boing Boing
christian nationalism Hillary Clinton says right-wing extremists and the Supreme Court have a plan to "literally steal the next presidential election" Mark Frauenfelder
social media One way to fix social media? Look at how the US, UK, and USSR dealt with radio in the early 20th-century Thom Dunn
The QAnon party Watch: Ad by new DCCC campaign linking GOP members to Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon Carla Sinclair
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
corruption The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic Cory Doctorow
net neutrality Every word Ajit Pai says about Net Neutrality is a lie, including "and" and "the" Cory Doctorow
AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
