machine learning Shitty Tumblr pornbot inception Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Let a bunch of robots help you get your house cleaned while you are stuck at home Boing Boing's Shop

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

law 9th circuit: scraping publicly-accessible websites is fine Rob Beschizza

telemarketers Vacation scammer telemarketer spends 15 minutes talking to a bot Mark Frauenfelder

Business Ajit Pai promised that killing Net Neutrality would spur investment and improve service: a year later, service and investment have declined Cory Doctorow

privacy Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don't Cory Doctorow

trumpism Blockbuster Gizmodo investigation reveals probable masterminds of the massive anti-Net Neutrality identity theft/astroturf campaign Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Cory Doctorow

corruption Cornered FCC admits that its website was never hacked Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The EU's latest copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative Commons licenses Cory Doctorow

artbots A dot-matrix printer that taps out a picture using a pencil Clive Thompson

scholarship Distinguished scientist on the mistakes pundits make when they predict the future of AI Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Wrapping up the Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway: Coase's Spectre Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

graphic novels The US sics its robot drone army on Canada’s water supply in "We Stand on Guard" Gareth Branwyn

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

science fiction Tales from the Loop – An eerie account of a physics research facility gone awry Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Kickstarting "Uprising – A Post-Apocalyptic Robot Comedy" Cory Doctorow