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

qanon QAnon gains mainstream appeal with tens of millions in GOP funding Jennifer Sandlin

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

tabloids Hollywood's most hated in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

The SATS were literally invented by a eugenicist to uphold white supremacy Thom Dunn

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

iot Imagining a "smart city" that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed Cory Doctorow

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

scholarship An academic pollster explains why she thinks any Democratic nominee will win the presidency in 2020 Cory Doctorow

marketing Internet users are wising up to persuasive "nudge" techniques Cory Doctorow