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Gadgets Got stress? These CBD oils bring relief by the drop Boing Boing's Shop

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Business Ernst and Young subjected women employees to "training" about keeping the company's men happy Cory Doctorow

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corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow

racism For years, the chief of the Border Patrol was a member of the secret CBP Facebook group for racist and threatening chatter Cory Doctorow

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

corruption Facebook hate group investigation reveals 400 police officers, including NYPD cops, to be members Xeni Jardin

Philosophers of the alt-right Microsoft thinks Minecraft's creator is a creeper Mark Frauenfelder

picks 'Confederate militia' boss who abused immigrants at gunpoint attacked in jail with 'non-life-threatening injuries' Xeni Jardin

youtube Google and YouTube executives ignored warnings on toxic video content, now we're all paying the price Xeni Jardin

fake news CIA helped Hitler hide after WWII, Prince Harry’s real dad, and Freddie Mercury’s secret son, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Man-Eaters: Handmaid's Tale meets Cat People in a comic where girls turn into man-eating were-panthers when they get their periods Cory Doctorow