swarms Play with a fantastic swarm simulator David Pescovitz

healthcare Furries in therapy Rob Beschizza

kfc KFC apologizes for TV ad that shows young boys staring in awe at a woman adjusting her breasts Carla Sinclair

Business A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation Cory Doctorow

biology Check out this 480 million-year-old conga line of arthropods David Pescovitz

surveillance capitalism Internet users are wising up to persuasive "nudge" techniques Cory Doctorow

Business "Owning your data" will not save you from data capitalism Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Labour report on executive pay proposes giving customers a vote on compensation, ending share-based compensation for execs Cory Doctorow

picks As Brazil prepares to elect 'Trump,' Facebook shuts down 68 pages & 43 accounts that got him there Xeni Jardin

Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart

privacy You know who does creepier stuff with your data than Cambridge Analytica? Your ISP Cory Doctorow

heritage foundation Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right's "capitalist ideal" Cory Doctorow

genetics The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018) Rob Reid

Science Gorgeous and fascinating look into the science of animal schooling Andrea James

Gadgets Testing products for data privacy and security Geoffrey MacDougall, Consumer Reports

Copyfight The W3C, DRM, and future of the open web Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

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Technology What does it mean to be human in an age of machines? Institute for the Future

books Why are license "agreements" so uniformly terrible? Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz