music Universal, having learned nothing from its "dancing baby" ass-kicking, is once again attacking Prince fans Cory Doctorow

conspirituality We need to talk about Marianne Williamson Jennifer Sandlin

books Ursula LeGuin estate posthumously changes 7 words across 3 different LeGuin books Thom Dunn

music These musicians figured out how to profit off of poop Thom Dunn

movies Director Justin Lin departs from Fast X Devin Nealy

Idiocracy How America became so profoundly stupid over the past decade Gareth Branwyn

youtube How dumb Social Media rules punished me for a Lovecraftian parody of Billy Joel Thom Dunn

Business Why I won't buy an Ipad: ten years later Cory Doctorow

Games The designer of Universal Paperclips has a new game to play with your home smart speaker John Struan

Copyfight A new copyright bill would be a disaster for how regular people use the internet Katharine Trendacosta

politics Why don't more Chinese people oppose the Chinese government? Cory Doctorow

Business Facebook has filed a laughable patent-application for the well-known practice of "shadow banning" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Starz abuses the DMCA to remove EFF's tweet about Starz abusing the DMCA Cory Doctorow

monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

elections How a political outsider's fundraising tool is helping insurgent, working-class Dems mount primary challenges and campaigns Cory Doctorow

eu After chaos, the EU's plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Music professor shows how the EU's looming extinction-level internet policy will work (fail) Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The EU's Link Tax will be voted on in TWO DAYS: if passed, you won't be able to link to the news except on Big Tech's licensed platforms Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle