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For years and years and years, there was a scrappy little newspaper in San Francisco that warned (very much obnoxiously at times) about PG&E’s continuing private control of energy …

Hell yeah.

“You can’t trust that bag of bits.” That made me giggle.

Good point. Thx for this comment.

Offensive cyber weapons and their relationship with international arms control agreements, or the lack thereof. Old school, stateless arms brokers like the infamous Viktor Bout are…

Several great books about John Brown, including Russell Banks’s “Cloudsplitter” and a bio from W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois wanted to bio Frederick Douglass, with whom Brown frequently …

Features like this are presumably what antitrust investigators will scrutinize. It’s Google doing everything in its power to keep users within the Google empire at the expense of p…

Didn’t I just see a post on HN that blamed ships for the plastic?

Quietly my ass. Both are promoting it as a way to make an estate or corner of earth internet-connected, rather than just a single structure.

I’ll leave it up to Run DMC. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=word%20is%20...

Word is born.

I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and data like this are essential for reporting on campaign activity in the digital age. Only looking at contributions and expen…

The policy should also require the FBI — prior to utilizing private genealogy sites — add the case details to Justice’s NamUs database and network. The FBI pretends it doesn’t exis…

I was an early user at the Center for Investigative Reporting. First learned about it at a NICAR conference in Arizona. Still use it to organize and showcase documents and records.…

Listening to NPR with my dad on the weekends growing up in Tulsa was my favorite thing on the planet and basically the reason I wanted to become a journalist. But like everything e…

If you've never hiked through one, they are quintessential American excess. I know for many of you, their locations are Flyover Country. But actually embark from your stopover next…