facebook Facebook to pay handpicked corporate news outlets up to $3 million a year to license content: WSJ Xeni Jardin
Copyfight Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
net neutrality House Republicans propose poisoning Net Neutrality bill with Article-13-like liability Cory Doctorow
Business Swedes are entitled to six months' leave to start a business, look after a sick relative, or study Cory Doctorow
books America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand Cory Doctorow
History History's solutions to runaway inequality: warfare, revolution, state collapse and plague Cory Doctorow
books Schneier's "Click Here To Kill Everybody pervasive connected devices mean we REALLY can't afford shitty internet policy Cory Doctorow
books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura
corruption For 40 years, American Conservatives have filed down the definition of "corruption," turning the Framers' spear into a blunt stub Cory Doctorow