late stage capitalism McKinsey bills the US government $3m a year for anodyne advice from 23-year-old college grads Cory Doctorow

animation When Parliament-Funkadelic took a wrong turn and ended up on 'Night of the Living Dead' set Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Marjorie Taylor Greene uses coded language — "Pure Bloods" — in anti-vax tweet Carla Sinclair

QNuts Former thinker Naomi Wolf says WHO forces will occupy the US next week Carla Sinclair

tabloids World War III and Biden-Harris "knife fight" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

neoliberalism The dystopian roots of the concept of "Meritocracy" Thom Dunn

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

canada The Pentagon has made more UFO revelations, but Canada's had a public UFO database for decades Thom Dunn

security Information security and warfare metaphors: a toxic mix made in hell Cory Doctorow

trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow

law Kansas judge tells government debt collectors they can't hound a broke 58-year-old woman until her 84th birthday Cory Doctorow

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

happy mutants Charlie Stross's CCC talk: the future of psychotic AIs can be read in today's sociopathic corporations Cory Doctorow

fake news Hillary Clinton's a Russian spy, Jennifer Aniston's sex swap shame, and own your own alien – in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

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crime Obama's legacy: eight years of not holding executives criminally responsible for their companies' misdeeds Cory Doctorow

data Adult site data reveals 2016's top trends: Melania and Matures are way up Andrea James

media "Mainstream media is the Real Fake News!" says National Enquirer Peter Sheridan

ethnic cleansing Serbian ultra-nationalists celebrate Trump's victory Cory Doctorow

politics Oculus execs defend founder's support of Nazi propaganda machine Rob Beschizza