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graphic novels Casting announced for the upcoming Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" Thom Dunn

crimes Ice cream licker jailed Rob Beschizza

crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

corruption South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow

makers Young woman invents ingenious bioplastic made from fish scales and red algae David Pescovitz

security Computer historians crack passwords of Unix's early pioneers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Jonathan Lethem on Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Lynda Barry is a Macarthur "genius" Cory Doctorow

trump Trump was going to let Egypt arrest NYT reporter, Sulzberger says Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The Folio Society is releasing a gorgeous edition of Octavia Butler's "Kindred" Cory Doctorow

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

books Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy returns to the screen in new Hulu series Rob Beschizza

happy mutants David Byrne's Luaka Bop label is releasing a compilation of "secular gospel" from the 1970s, with liner notes by Jonathan Lethem Cory Doctorow

cats Cat impersonates otter Xeni Jardin

music Video for Patti Smith's gorgeous tribute to avant-garde poet/dramatist Antonin Artaud David Pescovitz

politics White House asks fans to report anti-Trump 'political bias' online Xeni Jardin

science fiction Duke University acquires the archives of Charles N Brown, founder of Locus Magazine Cory Doctorow

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