Culture An American artist illustrates a webcomic love letter to her hometown of Wuhan Thom Dunn

spycraft Here's the everyday-carry for Australian cyberspies in China Mark Frauenfelder

mass surveillance Garnet Hertz's "Experiments in Surveillance Capitalism: Device for Calling the Department of Homeland Security" Gareth Branwyn

music Wuhan, coronavirus ground zero, is also China’s punk music capital Xeni Jardin

health China bans sale of wild animals as novel Wuhan coronavirus deaths increase Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

surveillance Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Chinese Sci-Fi/Writing advice/DIY aromatic shower in the new Recomendo Mark Frauenfelder

design Vans sneakers boycotted in Hong Kong after they pulled a protest-themed shoe design from public competition David Pescovitz

censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow

california Fur industry paid protesters to attend California and New York hearings on a fur ban Cory Doctorow

china How China ingests and adapts western culture Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Become a travel expert with this jetsetter's crash course Boing Boing's Shop

happy mutants David Silverberg's "Terms and Conditionals": the things you just agreed to David Silverberg

google Google walkout organizers say they're being retaliated against for demanding ethical standards Cory Doctorow

movies China's toxic livestreaming culture: the vicarious lives of angry, alienated, uneducated rural gamers Cory Doctorow

censorship China is blurring men's earrings on TV David Pescovitz

Business Google's secret project to build a censored Chinese search engine bypassed the company's own security and privacy teams Cory Doctorow