happy mutants Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank Jason Schmitt

late stage capitalism How markets plundered Free Software's best stuff and used it to create freedom for companies, not people Cory Doctorow

politics Universal health care is "free stuff" as in "freedom" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Crowdfunding powerful open hardware that is truly open and respectful of your rights Cory Doctorow

floss Switching to Linux, saying goodbye to Apple and Microsoft Cory Doctorow

black lives matter "Promissory Note" marries MLK's moving words with music and imagery Andrea James

sponsored If Cannabis Is “A Potential Way To Prevent COVID-19” Then Why Is Trump Blocking Research? Boing Boing

Gadgets Top 3 Reasons to Build a Website with Wix Boing Boing's Shop

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

#COVIDIOTS The "Freedom to Breathe Agency" Mark Frauenfelder

COVID-19 "They want to throw God's wonderful breathing system out": Comments from Florida anti-maskers David Pescovitz

the cruelty is the point A catalog of Trump's top cruelties 2011-2020 Mark Frauenfelder

History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz

COVID-19 Obsessive-compulsive disorder as practice for COVID-19 David Pescovitz

politics VOA to be run by Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Trump CEO pick Michael Pack, so two top VOA directors just quit Xeni Jardin

drm Justifiably angry man hacks evil GE refrigerator Mark Frauenfelder

pentagon The Pentagon developed a plan to stop a potential Gen Z rebellion in the 2020s. Thom Dunn

Technology IBM to exit facial recognition business, opposes use of AI technology for mass surveillance Xeni Jardin

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

racism Stop using the BLM hashtag on your black square (better yet, take it down and start listening and amplifying) Rusty Blazenhoff