Comics Enjoy "iCthulhu," a free Lovecraftian cyberpunk webcomic Thom Dunn

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

Gadgets You can get 5 of these best selling apps for over 90% off their regular price Boing Boing's Shop

ireland Elf-shooting is a disease from which cows suffer. Thom Dunn

music Douglas Rushkoff on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) Douglas Rushkoff

History If you loved HBO’s "The Deuce," The Rialto Report will leave you spellbound Matt Maranian

photography The Smithsonian just released 2.8 million images into the public domain David Pescovitz

cartoons Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

animals These are the bullets that killed JFK David Pescovitz

media Gawker never relaunched, and perhaps never will Rob Beschizza

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

security You have the right to remain encrypted Albert Fox Cahn & Ayyan Zubair

happy mutants A free, accessible, hyperlinked version of the Mueller Report Cory Doctorow

Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow

books Print book reading is surging, just not in research libraries Cory Doctorow

Business Axon makes false statements to town that bought its police bodycams, threatens to tase their credit-rating if they cancel the contract Cory Doctorow

epistemological crisis danah boyd explains the connection between the epistemological crisis and the rise of far-right conspiratorial thinking Cory Doctorow

Copyfight News organizations have all but abandoned their archives Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Nine, "Your Sandwich Speaks!" — with SBaGen-based Digital Drugs for New Year's Eve Ethan Persoff