UFOs UK's Ministry of Defence plans to release 50 years of UFO reports sometime in 2020 Gareth Branwyn
sponsored If Cannabis Is “A Potential Way To Prevent COVID-19” Then Why Is Trump Blocking Research? Boing Boing
racism Stop using the BLM hashtag on your black square (better yet, take it down and start listening and amplifying) Rusty Blazenhoff
star wars Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy Thom Dunn
Gadgets Want to join the gig economy? FlexJobs can save you a lot of time and heartbreak Boing Boing's Shop
fbi The FBI doesn't need Apple to give it a backdoor to encryption, because it already has all the access it needs Thom Dunn
This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly David Pescovitz
climate The DHS classes nonviolent environmental activists in the same "domestic terrorist" category as Dylan Roof and James Fields Cory Doctorow
Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow
privacy Chinese law professor's social media denunciation of facial recognition in the Beijing subway system Cory Doctorow