video games Review: "Don't Read The Comments" is a delightful YA antidote to GamerGate Thom Dunn

animals An author wrote a beautiful tribute to his late dog disguised as writing advice Thom Dunn

misogyny "Tingle Monsters" is an incredibly unsettling ASMR feminist horror film Thom Dunn

california Call for Oakland muralists to paint boarded-up windows downtown Rusty Blazenhoff

coronavirus Dick Pound: Olympics will be postponed Rob Beschizza

gaming February is "Snag-a-Normie" month in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets After random surveillance images started to show up on users' devices, Google blocked Xiaomi from running Assistant or Google Home Cory Doctorow

christmas Does the creepy Santa mask from "It's a Wonderful Life" exist somewhere? Rusty Blazenhoff

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

guillotine watch With "OK boomer," millennials are killing intergenerational resentment Cory Doctorow

censorship Europe's highest court Facebook verdict hits a new low for technomagical thinking Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Carla Sinclair talks about some of her favorite tools on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

makers Interview with Dan Shapiro, creator of the Glowforge laser cutter Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

nazis Hate speech on 4chan is up by 40% since 2015, analysis of one million comments finds Xeni Jardin

Games Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal werepanthers when they get their periods Cory Doctorow

corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow

Health Care Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company "immoral" and "barbaric" Cory Doctorow

web theory Reddit's wonderful "Change My View" forum launches its own independent website Cory Doctorow

Vintage Weird A Strange Harvest (1980): Creepy documentary about aliens and cattle mutilation Mark Frauenfelder