dan das mann The Funn Machine is headed to the Oregon Eclipse Festival Jason Weisberger

art Computer finds faces in grains of sand David Pescovitz

robotics Simone Giertz makes a parent robot that pats her on the back (after she deposits money into it) Gareth Branwyn

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

Business Frustrated game devs automated the production of 1,500 terrible slot machine apps and actually made money Cory Doctorow

Funny Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow

facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn

photogrammetry "Removing the water": physically-accurate color correction algorithm for underwater photography Rob Beschizza

music New software separates vocals and instruments in recorded music Mark Frauenfelder

art Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a $95,000 Hippopotamine Sofa John Struan

books HOW TO: XKCD's Randall Munroe finds the humor in taking silly questions very, very seriously Cory Doctorow

elections Clown Car 2.0: Matt Taibbi on the Democratic nomination race Cory Doctorow

Games Nintendo announces Switch Lite, new handheld game console Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet Cory Doctorow

symbols of hate Petition the moron with a swastika in his El Sobrante front yard to knock it off Jason Weisberger

Games Baldur's Gate 3 announced Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Hr's how to protct your Appl MacBook kyboard Rob Beschizza

eff The European Copyright Directive: What is it, and why has it drawn more controversy than any other Directive in EU history? Cory Doctorow

books What do reverse cyborgs want? A review of David Marusek's Glassing the Orgachine Eric Heyne

patents Patent trolls celebrate as Trump's new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism Cory Doctorow