social media Sadistic jerks delivered strobing images to the Epilepsy Foundation's Twitter followers David Pescovitz

donald trump Trump calls for defunding federal law enforcement after facing charges Mark Frauenfelder

books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro

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36 months after George Floyd's murder, police reform finally considered in Minnesota Elías Villoro

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weapons A brief history of weaponized balloons Thom Dunn

dupe NY Post "reporter" resigns after being "ordered" to write fictional story about Kamala Harris Carla Sinclair

Space Space Force has an operational weapon, and there's no going back Thom Dunn

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COVID-19 Rush Limbaugh, noted epidemiologist: "The coronavirus is the common cold, folks." Mark Frauenfelder

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language Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn

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privacy A single, mysterious server exposed 1.2 billion user records Cory Doctorow

crime A woman's stalker compromised her car's app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it Cory Doctorow

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