telcoms Frontier: if you don't buy your router, we'll charge you a rental fee; if you DO buy your router, we'll charge you a "support" fee Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Small business in Wisconsin cancels its unusably bad internet service from Frontier; Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee Cory Doctorow

infrastructure Minnesota AG's report reveals big telcos are literally letting their infrastructure rot Cory Doctorow

Cryptozoology That time Davy Crockett met Bigfoot David Pescovitz

pop music Group of quarantined musicians do a spot-on cover of Fagen's "New Frontier" Gareth Branwyn

Science Scientists: Saying "fuck" and other bad words really can decrease your feeling of pain David Pescovitz

wired Wired just canceled Bruce Sterling's long-running blog Mark Frauenfelder

star trek CBS All Access Places Series Order for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," Based on the U.S.S. Enterprise Crew from "Discovery" Ken Snider

Business American Airlines & Delta join JetBlue in requiring facial masks on U.S. flights Xeni Jardin

music Shut in sounds: Donald Fagen's "New Frontier" Gareth Branwyn

eff "It felt like a Black Mirror episode" – Bird Scooter lays off 406 workers at once via Zoom Mark Frauenfelder

nsa How to look cute on your webcam that the government is definitely spying on Thom Dunn

toilet paper Customers descend on newly-arrived toilet paper at Costco Rob Beschizza

blackwater Blackwater founder Erik Prince used ex-spies to infiltrate liberal groups for Project Veritas Thom Dunn

robots Watch this android child make some very odd and unsettling facial expressions David Pescovitz

science fiction A new blog post series exploring the history and import of cyberpunk launches on Adafruit Gareth Branwyn

crime WATCH: Pot shop clerk fights off robbers with bear spray Rob Beschizza

kickstarter Jane Metcalfe, co-founder NEO.LIFE, has a cool upcoming book Mark Frauenfelder

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza