e pluribus unum US Conference of Mayors adopts a resolution to never pay off ransomware attackers Cory Doctorow

Peltier cooling Subway tunnel heat-exchangers could heat and cool thousands of nearby apartments Cory Doctorow

take the a-train Easy subway access predicts the resilience of New Yorkers' friendships Cory Doctorow

party like its 2008 The rent's less damned high: rents falling in most of America's most expensive cities Cory Doctorow

my home is not your profit Berlin Senate approves five-year, citywide rent freeze Cory Doctorow

occupational diversity To chase out low-waged workers, Mountain View is banning overnight RV and van parking Cory Doctorow

surge pricing The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during "surges"), overworked drivers Cory Doctorow

pangea Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

mobility Buried in Uber's IPO, an aggressive plan to destroy all public transit Cory Doctorow

new york green deal NYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the city's carbon footprint Cory Doctorow

hudson yards The Vessel: a perfect symbol for the grifter capitalism of New York City's privatized Hudson Yards "neighborhood" Cory Doctorow

gigapixel An astounding gigapixel panorama of Paris affords "an eyeful of the Eiffel" Jeffrey Martin

inkjet dystopias Lime scooters have a software bug that causes them to hurl their riders to the ground Cory Doctorow

empirical facewash Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow

rideshare New York City's new rideshare regs put Big Brother in backseat, give GPS tracking a whole new meaning Albert Fox Cahn

uber's for goobers A short list of "all the bad things" about Uber and Lyft Cory Doctorow

torpol Toronto cops can frequently get your public transit history without a warrant Cory Doctorow

financial transparency The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money Cory Doctorow

nopologies Bird nonpologizes: "we accidentally sent you a threatening letter" Cory Doctorow

new deal A virtual re-creation of San Francisco's massive WPA wooden city model Cory Doctorow