security After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits Cory Doctorow

right to repair The right to repair is the right to screw up Seamus Bellamy

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

review This TARDIS Grows Weed with Artificial Intelligence, PART 2 Richard Metzger

Copyfight A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security Cory Doctorow

television Would you kill to stop an asteroid panic? I asked the creators of Salvation Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The Women's March and the Judean People's Front: After Occupy, after trumpism, a new networked politics Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

happy mutants Kids explain how banned and challenged books helped them and even saved their lives Joan Bertin and Millie Davis

corruption If the 2016 election is hacked, it's because no one listened to these people Cory Doctorow

books The final Pratchett: The Shepherd's Crown Cory Doctorow

offworld Offworld Monday roundup: Empathy, criticism and being filthy in the shower Leigh Alexander

offworld Her Story: a compelling murder mystery game with a tragic flaw Laura Hudson

family Isis Adventure: Worst. Puzzle. Ever. Ron Garret

In a new book, Jon Ronson talks with people whose lives have been ruined by online shaming Mark Frauenfelder

The charley horse from Hell — why you should work at a standing desk Gammy Hamhock