surveillance Uganda's unenforceable social media tax is augmented by a biometric requirement for SIM card purchases Cory Doctorow

ebola We've got to stop turning our backs on Ebola Séamus Bellamy

uk The BBC has a pidgin service Cory Doctorow

unfortunate spawn points Now space has been corrupted by capitalism, there's only one place left to escape to: Null Island Rob Beschizza

mistakes British police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence Rob Beschizza

erased by racism Jack Daniel's sold a preacher story and buried the enslaved distiller Jason Weisberger

music Moroccan Tape Stash preserves Morocco's cassette music heritage Roger Park

art Kennedy Center's name change costs it New Year's shows and credibility Jason Weisberger

politics Miller slashes refugees to 7,500, reserves most slots for white Europeans Ellsworth Toohey

politics Adolf Hitler wins fifth term of office in Ompundja, Namibia Rob Beschizza

Space Will China beat the rest of the world to building a base on the Moon? Séamus Bellamy

travel DNA shows Anglo Saxon girl had West African grandparent in 650 Rob Beschizza

AI For-profit AI Jesus bots offer salvation after ads Gail Sherman

events While 130,000 Danes party at Roskilde Festival, an invisible workforce collects their trash for survival Ellsworth Toohey

Games Relooted: take back stolen African artifacts in an indie game for PC and XBox Rob Beschizza

Cooking World blows $2.9B on wooden rectangles Séamus Bellamy

Science Carnivorous plant attempts to digest candy in bizarre video Popkin

no snorting matter Nothing to sniff at: "Large amounts" of cocaine hit Texas beaches after smuggling goes awry Carla Sinclair

facts Greenland isn't green, and other fun facts Gail Sherman

books How the Black psychedelic revolution can heal and liberate Allan Rose Hill