transparency Petition: tell Obama to stand by commitment to "most transparent administration in history" Cory Doctorow

Spoken Word with Electronics In Praise of THE SPAMP! And SPIT-COIN: A Proposal to Convert All Money to Saliva Ethan Persoff

coronapocalypse The shield you want — DEVO selling Energy Dome PPE face shields Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets Teracube is the gutsy new smartphone with a 4-year warranty—and it’s under $300 Boing Boing's Shop

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

authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow

Business E-scooter companies are desperate for repo men to stop impounding their vehicles Cory Doctorow

trump E. Jean Carroll accuses Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s Xeni Jardin

facebook Facebook never delivered its "Clear History" feature Cory Doctorow

health Dentistry's evidentiary vacuum allows profiteering butchers to raid our mouths for millions Cory Doctorow

fake news Scientology hell, Hollywood destroyed, and Prince Charles’ illegal marriage, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

racism Liam Neeson went hunting for "some black bastard" to murder after a woman he knew was raped Rob Beschizza

Bike nerd vs e-bike: wrapping it all up Dave Tolnai

elections The GOP stole Wisconsin; now they're trying to steal it again on the way out — PROTEST TODAY! Cory Doctorow

amusements This website lets you make your own emojis. Mark Frauenfelder

Business Dystopia watch: American schools are installing anti-shooter smoke cannons and bulletproof doors Cory Doctorow

happy mutants John Oliver's scorching debullshitification of Facebook's apology ads Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

rip The time I interviewed Harlan Ellison about his lawsuit against a fan who posted his stories to Usenet Mark Frauenfelder

class war The other class war: technocrats vs plutocrats Cory Doctorow