privacy Majority of period-tracking app share incredibly sensitive data with Facebook and bottom-feeding analytics companies Cory Doctorow

animals Woman gored after approaching bison in Yellowstone National Park Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Your barista may be at home, but that doesn’t mean your coffee game should suffer Boing Boing's Shop

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder

Nature Icy with a chance of falling iguanas, Florida's odd forecast reads Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher

mistakes What should become of the MIT Media Lab? Rob Beschizza

weather The Picture of Dorian Spray: Category 4 feared for hurricane approaching Florida Rob Beschizza

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

jordan peterson Jordan Peterson threatened to sue woman who called his book sexist Rob Beschizza

tabloids Exposed! Tucker Carlson’s secret addiction, Meghan Markle’s secret “sister,” and Royal Family secrets, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Boston Symphony Orchestra flautist files lawsuit over unequal pay Seamus Bellamy

censorship Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra interviewed during his 1987 obscenity trial Mark Frauenfelder

names These are the top ten baby names in the US David Pescovitz

rob ford Movie about crack mayor Rob Ford to star mediocre male reporter instead of brilliant woman one who investigated him Rob Beschizza

Food The main man for survivalist chow and prepper food David Pescovitz

rick scott Fl Gov Rick Scott's consultant is not humping a mannequin with an ice penis Jason Weisberger

trumpism Puerto Rico, abandoned by Trump and facing disaster capitalism looting by big business, turns to socialist and anarchist collectives to rebuild Cory Doctorow

close encounters of the wingnut kind GOP congressional candidate from Florida says she knows space aliens Mark Frauenfelder