alexa Another Echo Dot, another owl Jason Weisberger

picks I keep my Amazon Echo Dot in an owl Jason Weisberger

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

useful stuff Good deal on Amazon Echo Dot plus Amazon Music Unlimited subscription Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot surveillance device for children Cory Doctorow

sound Great set of budget Bluetooth bookshelf speakers Jason Weisberger

facebook Paranoid, miserable Facebook employees have started using burner phones to complain about the company to each other and the press Cory Doctorow

happy mutants From Tahrir to Trump: how the internet became the dictators' home turf Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Amazon's useless "transparency reports" won't disclose whether they're handing data from always-on Alexa mics to governments Cory Doctorow

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

picks Amazon Alexa turned me into a prepper Jason Weisberger

Business Whole Foods lowers some prices as much as 43% and starts selling Echo on first day under Amazon Xeni Jardin

Here are some weird and useful Amazon Prime Day deals we like Boing Boing's Shop

makers Check out some of Donald Bell's favorite tools Mark Frauenfelder

Comics The complicated, feminist history of Wonder Woman’s odd origin story Caroline Siede

internet of things Good deal on an Echo Dot: $38 Mark Frauenfelder

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

History Catastrophes are reliable levelers of inequality; inequality creates catastrophes Cory Doctorow

internet of things Echo Dot for $(removed) Mark Frauenfelder

gender Icelandic women walk off the job 14% early to protest 14% pay-gap Cory Doctorow