art Thieves apologize profusely and return stolen Indigenous artwork Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Train your brain to solve problems & make better decisions with these courses Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus Right-wing websites are weighing the pros and cons of letting people die from coronavirus to help the economy Thom Dunn

police A new study further confirms that most crime TV shows are good PR for cops Thom Dunn

facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

finance The retreat of "scientific selfishness," a literature review Cory Doctorow

china MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

Business Ecommerce sites' mobile templates hide information that shoppers use to save money Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How to recognize AI snake oil Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll Cory Doctorow

tech Bruce Schneier makes the case for "public interest technologists" Cory Doctorow

art That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police: a case study Daphne Keller

computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

happy mutants You treasure what you measure: how KPIs make software dystopias Cory Doctorow

privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow

Business AT&T's dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow

law A report from the Christchurch Call, where the future of "anti-extremist" moderation was debated at the highest levels Cory Doctorow