real estate Cheap Old Houses Instagram becomes too popular, creates home-buying wars Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids The Man Who Knew Too Much! Why China murdered its own ambassador, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

cartoons Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions Rusty Blazenhoff

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

climate change UK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars Thom Dunn

antiques The existential endtime pleasures of watching silent restoration videos Gareth Branwyn

Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow

article 13 UPDATED! How do you pass the most unpopular measure in European history? With the most undemocratic dirty trick in EU history: stop the #Article13 vote from being moved ahead of day of protest! Cory Doctorow

videos Oracle's bad faith with security researchers led to publication of a Virtualbox 0-day Cory Doctorow

corruption Deleting Facebook is not enough: without antitrust, the company will be our lives' "operating system" Cory Doctorow

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Business This is the golden age of Chinese science fiction Cory Doctorow

writing Richard Kadrey talks about his latest book and what comes next after Sandman Slim Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

north carolina Failed 'Wizard of Oz' theme park to reopen for tours Rusty Blazenhoff

books This book explains how to tell when your country's going to hell and how to stop it Seamus Bellamy

book reviews To Read Aloud is a portal straight to that Middle Earth where magic happens Ferdinando Buscema

music The story behind Toto's 'Africa' Rusty Blazenhoff

jazz-age memes The stowaway craze of the 1920s Clive Thompson

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein