Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

An unelected billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing

WD has dropped the price of the Elements external hard drive down to its lowest price in over six months. The discount applies on the 16 TB model.

A Meditation on Porco Rosso

New calculations put the date much closer than we should be comfortable with

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Not everything that happened this year was terrible.

Moderators now need Reddit's permission to turn subreddits private, NSFW.

YouTube is now widely rolling out pause ads. These ads will appear when you pause playback, in addition to regular YouTube ads.

Krakax is a multiplayer game where you test your skill in archery and axe-throwing against live opponents. Select your character, choose your weapon, and embrace the challenge of hitting precise targets using unique gravitational mechanics.

Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge.

How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood is a documentary based on the book National Security Cinema and the Spy Culture website. Sourced from thousands of pages of documents obtained by investigative journalist Tom Secker using the Freedom of Information Act, it reveals how the US military lie to and manipulate people using Hollywood films and TV. From rewriting scripts to pitching ideas to planting military technologies into entertainment products, this is a revelatory tale about propaganda in places you might not expect to find it.