Arts Funding in Peril
This spring the Trump administration walloped the arts community when it slashed federal funding for literary arts and culture, taking major steps to dismantle the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames
We speak to adult industry researchers and Stripe alumni about Steam and Itch.io's NSFW content cull
Alistair Mitchell, 61: Lawyer whose calling was knocked into him at a riot
Alistair Mitchell, 61: Lawyer whose calling was knocked into him at a riot Saturday March 02 2019, 12.01am GMT, The Times Private Eye once described Alistair Mitchell as “the only…
How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan
YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”
Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal,…
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
Age Verification Systems Lead to Less Privacy Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten everyone’s rights to speech and privacy. To keep children out of a website or…
Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia…
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
Start with Overripe Bananas
Instead of hitching up the wagon, still a common mode of transportation in rural North Dakota in the 1920s, your grandmother’s father rouses her and her two sisters and tells…