French economist Thomas Piketty wrote one of the most important books of the beginning of the 21st Century and published it in April of 2014. Capital in the 21st Century…
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Cory Doctorow comments of Pope Francis’ message for World Communication Day on Boing Boing. [excerpt] Pope Francis on the Internet and communication Pope Francis’s Message for World Communication Day addressed…
By Cory Doctorow. Widespread, global protests killed ACTA, the secretive, over-reaching “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement,” which imposed brutal copyright rules on its signatories. But now, the Canadian Conservatives have introduced Bill…
By Cory Doctorow. A ratty paradise that challenges our assumptions about addiction Originally published on Boingboing.nett at 7:34 pm Mon, Sep 16, 2013 Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park [excerpt] This article…
Mike Archer. Amidst all of the calls in the corporate conservative media for government austerity, no one is mentioning that every time it has been tried in history … it…
By Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing.net Canadian Conservative senator Mike Duffy is in disgrace over the news that he submitted fraudulent expense claims totalling $90,000 and secretly borrowed a like sum…
From Boingboing.net. The National Post is arguing that it is entitled to enforce copyright in the title (headline) of a newspaper article entitled: “Jonathan Kay on Richard Warman and Canada’s…
From Taylor-Ruth’s Tumblr, a page from her fifth grade diary. She was unquestionably the most punk fifth grader she knew, and possibly the most punk fifth grader in history. If…