Business New museum all about failure to open in Sweden David Pescovitz

politics Marco Rubio melts down on Twitter Rob Beschizza

rockets When model rocket launches go wrong David Pescovitz

Business Plagued by security woes, Zoom promises end-to-end encryption starting in July Xeni Jardin

Gadgets 20 auto deals you can save extra on for Memorial Day Boing Boing's Shop

science fiction Kim Stanley Robinson on how the coronavirus is rewiring our imaginations Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets Kill house plants because you don’t know how to water? The Dewplanter does it all for you. Boing Boing's Shop

trump Trump calls mail-in ballots "corrupt" but reiterates that it's fine when he does it Thom Dunn

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

Business United Nations was hacked in July 2019 and kept it quiet, despite its own staff being at risk Xeni Jardin

politics Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by Facebook at ~$81M, Amazon almost $80M: Federal filings Xeni Jardin

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

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

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

security Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

corruption South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow

politics Great backgrounder on the Hong Kong protests: what's at stake and how'd we get here? Cory Doctorow