videos Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution Cory Doctorow

Games Sony blew $400m on a flop game it reportedly thought was the next Star Wars Rob Beschizza

1970s "Everything Has A History" explores Parker Brothers' 1971 toy, the "Johnny Horizon Environmental Test Kit" Jennifer Sandlin

medicine A summary of recent research into Long Covid Elías Villoro

racism Battle of the victims: how Asian hate and the housing crisis collide in the city Maddie Lee

police misconduct The New York Times explores the radical history of police unions Thom Dunn

big tech Cory Doctorow describes what's wrong about "Surveillance Capitalism" Mark Frauenfelder

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

movies In the mood for a different kind of horror movie tonight? Go see Parasite Natalie Dressed

Environment You can't recycle your way out of climate change Cory Doctorow

picks Can anti-transgender bias in media be measured? Andrea James

twitter Chase's idiotic poverty-shaming "inspirational" tweet, and Twitter users' magnificent responses thereto Cory Doctorow

new york 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

deathliner Canada bans Boeing's 737 MAX; U.S. now the last major country where it can fly Rob Beschizza

News Trump-Putin in Helsinki: Transcript and Video Xeni Jardin

peak phosphorus The world is running out of phosphorus, which threatens global food supply Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Cory Doctorow

security Here's everything that's wrong with America's insecure electronic voting machines, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

law A roadmap for AI policy questions Cory Doctorow