speakers Boing Boing's publisher speaking at WordCamp Orange County Jason Weisberger

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

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

happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow

monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Winners Take All: the Davos Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney philanthropy) Cory Doctorow

History The Nazis and your privacy Roderick Miller

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

The 1995 Anime “Ghost in the Shell” is more relevant than ever in today’s technologically complex society Andrew D Maynard

scholarship A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now Cory Doctorow

international relations Nobody takes the UN seriously, but here's how to fix it Smári McCarthy

News Trump-Putin in Helsinki: Transcript and Video Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Of Dog's Breakfasts, Article 13, and Mythbusting Glyn Moody

privacy GDPR: Don't forget to bring a towel! Sean O'Brien

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

addiction Public ignorance about “drunk/drugged up losers” is expensive and deadly Maureen Herman

Business Modern NDAs are unbelievably dirty, and the same handful of sleazy lawyers is behind most of them Cory Doctorow

first days of a better nation No one's coming – it's up to us: it's past time for technologists to be responsible to society Dan Hon