books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura
tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn
sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing
podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn
varsity blues Federal prosecutors release rowing photos Lori Loughlin allegedly used to get daughters into USC Mark Frauenfelder
location privacy How one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, thanks to Google's Geofence Warrants Thom Dunn
censorship A new play lets formerly incarcerated people tell their stories. Meanwhile, prisons are still banning books. Thom Dunn
fbi One of the jurors who convicted Whitey Bulger started up a strange pen pal friendship with him Thom Dunn
Gadgets This app can make anyone a better writer — and its got the sources to prove it. Boing Boing's Shop
privacy "Edge AI": encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips Cory Doctorow
