characters Rob Paulsen (voice of Pinky on Pinky and the Brain) critiques others doing his voices Gareth Branwyn

AI Jim Meskimen, deepfake face dancer Rob Beschizza

impressions Perfect impression of a contemporary text-to-speech bot Rob Beschizza

impressions Celebrity "nano-impressions" with master impressionist Jim Meskimen Xeni Jardin

bowie Listen to David Bowie impersonate Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and others Rob Beschizza

science fiction Philip K. Dick: "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" David Pescovitz

racism Skin whitening cream to be made less racist by changing its name Rob Beschizza

ads CNBC sting: most ad networks accepted fake news site full of scraped content Rob Beschizza

Gadgets The Pivot organizes your keys, performs tasks, and might even find its way back to you if lost Boing Boing's Shop

laptops First impressions of a $200 Linux laptop Mark Frauenfelder

psychology What do we hear when we dream? David Pescovitz

futility closet In 1952, New Zealander Tom Neale set out to live alone on a desert island Futility Closet

Disney Kate McKinnon portrays Elsa as gay in SNL's 'Frozen 2' spoof Jason Weisberger

david bowie Happy Bowiemas! Celebrate by listening to Bowie yucking it up impersonating other singers Gareth Branwyn

sesame street Sesame Street characters doing impressions of each other is gold Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets 16" MacBook Pro announced, and it has a proper escape key Rob Beschizza

History A Tangled Weave: when Louis XIV made owning calico cotton a crime Michael Skeet

comedy Look at new SNL cast member Chloe Fineman's spot-on impersonation of Elizabeth Holmes Mark Frauenfelder

Business Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer Cory Doctorow