conference calls Conference Call Bingo Xeni Jardin

Funny Justin consults for companies on how to have better conference calls David Pescovitz

Gadgets The ModMic turns normal headphones into a top-tier microphone headset for your home office Boing Boing's Shop

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

politics U.S. House of Representatives is looking “very closely” at remote voting, as COVID-19 pandemic drags on Xeni Jardin

zoom Public domain Zoom backgrounds Mark Frauenfelder

politics Canada not okay with Trump sending ~1,000 troops to Canada border Xeni Jardin

picks Keep coronavirus info classified, Trump White House told federal health agency Xeni Jardin

Business Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam Xeni Jardin

politics Humiliated Trump leaves NATO summit early after video emerges of world leaders mocking him Rob Beschizza

monopolism Beyond antitrust: the anti-monopoly movement and what it stands for Cory Doctorow

surveillance #NothingButDragnet: EFF calls on @Shaq to stop endorsing police partnerships with Amazon's creepy, surveilling Ring doorbells Cory Doctorow

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

go round and round How school buses became yellow, and some of the safest vehicles on the road Clive Thompson

china Beijing promises "no mercy" for the "backstage masterminds" of the Hong Kong uprising Cory Doctorow

Business The guy who figured out Bernie Madoff's scam now says GE is about to go bankrupt Cory Doctorow

trump Here is Alex Acosta's resignation letter to Donald Trump Xeni Jardin

media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow

picks Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says Fox News is "much, much more powerful and much more destructive than Twitter" Xeni Jardin