What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-doom-loop-citizen-surveillance/ JUST WHEN THE people of San Francisco thought they’d…

Russia Arrests Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova in Absentia The artist faces an immediate two-month detention if she returns to her home country. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/858071/russia-arrests-pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-in-absentia/ Russian artist Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was arrested in absentia in Moscow yesterday, November 21, on the charge of “insulting the religious feelings of…

A Hedge-Fund Founder’s Obsessive Storytelling A new book about Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, paints an unflattering picture—but it’s hard to imagine a record more damning than the one Dalio has created himself. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-hedge-fund-founders-obsessive-storytelling Dalio’s inquisitions, in Copeland’s telling, could get overtly cruel. He once berated a top deputy—a…