1960s Watch this 1967 film of a folk-pop group introducing Americans to the ZIP code Mark Frauenfelder

insects Nevada swarming with over 3,000 mosquitos infected with West Nile Virus: "It is explosive here" Carla Sinclair

texas Austin's guaranteed basic income pilot program was a hit. A GOP state senator doesn't want it to happen in Houston Jennifer Sandlin

Food Papa John's Pizza Bowls pose the important question "what is food?" Elías Villoro

usps The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it's about damn time. Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Wanna keep the car in the garage? This sale on personal scooters can get it done Boing Boing's Shop

security Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks Cory Doctorow

Business "Harbinger households": neighborhoods that consistently buy products that get discontinued, buy real-estate that underperforms, and donate to losing political candidates Cory Doctorow

class war McMansion Hell: the Campbell County, Wyoming edition Cory Doctorow

usausausa Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow

that is the policy California public library drops late fees Mark Frauenfelder

scholarship Report from the Fed reveals that "economic growth" is a highly localized phenomena, masking widespread financial desperation Cory Doctorow

anti-vaxxers New York anti-vaxxers suing for right to infect public Jason Weisberger

privacy Every minute for three months, GM secretly gathered data on 90,000 drivers' radio-listening habits and locations Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Facebook forced to drop "feature" that let advertisers block black people, old people and women Cory Doctorow

corruption The American Conservative: "The Dickensian Return of Debtors' Prisons" Cory Doctorow

usausausa America's new aristocracy: the 9.9% and their delusion of hereditary meritocracy Cory Doctorow

uk UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes Cory Doctorow

california Rich people in Northern California got better firefighting services, thanks to private insurers Cory Doctorow