Gadgets Inert Products: simulated suicide bombs and body parts for training exercises Cory Doctorow

law NSO Group employees kicked off Facebook for spying for brutal dictators are suing Facebook for violating their privacy Cory Doctorow

music Charles Manson's deeply dark and twisted interpretation of The Beatles' "White Album" David Pescovitz

trump Watch Trump suck up to Saudi Crown Prince MBS at G-20 Xeni Jardin

Trump is complicit 'Credible evidence' Saudi crown prince MBS directed Jamal Khashoggi killing, UN expert says Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Magic for Liars: Sarah Gailey's debut is a brilliant whodunnit in the vein of The Magicians Cory Doctorow

facebook Facebook's "celebration" and "memories" algorithms are auto-generating best-of-terror-recruiting pages for extremist groups Cory Doctorow

gwot Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it Cory Doctorow

health A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging Cory Doctorow

Business Gofundme jumpstarts a golden era of snake oil as desperate people raise millions for quack homeopathy cancer "remedies" Cory Doctorow

art Artist creates miniature replicas of the rooms of Japan's "lonely deaths" Cory Doctorow

military This little known government agency is responsible for bringing the remains of missing or captured U.S. soldiers home to rest Seamus Bellamy

gnaaaah Bloodsucking mice are attacking the albatrosses of Midway Atoll Clive Thompson

happy mutants Survivor, a story from Black Candies: The Eighties Sarah LaBrie

books Beneath the Sugar Sky: return to the world of "Every Heart a Doorway" for a quest through the land of Confection Cory Doctorow

animals Octopus attacks and kills a dolphin from within, while being eaten Clive Thompson

crime Mladic the genocide: a moment of silence for the Balkans' lost lives, honor and credibility Jasmina Tesanovic

Gadgets Deceiving your friends is acceptable in this card game Boing Boing's Shop

paintings Ilya Repin's "Ivan the Terrible and His Young Son Ivan" 1885 Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Tsujigiri: a ghastly samurai practice Mark Frauenfelder