speeding Drunken gentleman on a high-speed train threatens the engineer with a fire extinguisher for speeding Carla Sinclair

sponsored If Cannabis Is “A Potential Way To Prevent COVID-19” Then Why Is Trump Blocking Research? Boing Boing

Games Bernband: explore a looming yet intimate alien city Rob Beschizza

Gadgets The Trainz Railroad Simulator will make you feel like a master of the rails Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus Wear your mask in the bathroom so you don't get coronavirus from poop Thom Dunn

tabloids Coronavirus can make you fat, the Queen is still dying, and a sex tape nightmare, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science Scientists claim 100% accurate way to tell pot from hemp: lasers Xeni Jardin

aviation The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains Cory Doctorow

crime White nationalists planned to murder cops and pro-gun protesters in Virginia Cory Doctorow

This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly David Pescovitz

CES Segway announces a new egg-shaped hover chair, because why not Thom Dunn

music Trains perform Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major" David Pescovitz

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance Cory Doctorow

religion God of Death deployed to enforce railway laws in India David Pescovitz

#standedatnarita No trains or buses from Narita to Tokyo after the category 3 typhoon = chaos for thousands Sean Bonner

china Beijing promises "no mercy" for the "backstage masterminds" of the Hong Kong uprising Cory Doctorow

white supremacy Ecofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movement Cory Doctorow

Games Trans woman trains her new vagina's pelvic floor with a kegel-controlled version of Flappy Bird Cory Doctorow

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow