smile A historian of "Positive Thinking" surrenders (almost) David Pescovitz

Gadgets Nearly 200,000 happy students can’t be wrong about this machine learning-AI deep dive training Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Do the tabloids deserve a government bailout? This week’s dubious offerings make a poor case for their survival. Peter Sheridan

psychology How to think positively and why it's so hard to do that David Pescovitz

Technology Teenagers interview A.I experts about the future of thinking machines David Pescovitz

politics Nearly 25% of NYC residents have coronavirus antibodies says Gov Cuomo, lockdown to extend past May 15 in parts of New York state Xeni Jardin

Science COVID-19 may cause sudden strokes in young adults, coronavirus doctors report Xeni Jardin

Gadgets These weighted blankets will help soothe those frayed nerves Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Coronavirus cured (again), Britain’s Royals clash (again) and the woman who pees alcohol (unprecedented) in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

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

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

Japan Japanese store "rethinks" badges that indicate if employees are menstruating Mark Frauenfelder

thanksgiving How to argue with your racist Facebook uncle this Thanksgiving Cory Doctorow

Business Survey finds high levels of harassment in multiplayer games, as well as white supremacist recruiting attempts Cory Doctorow

computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

peer review Improving Q&As with peer-review Cory Doctorow

gender TOSsed out: EFF catalogs the perverse ways that platform moderation policies hurt the people they're supposed to protect Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow

book reviews The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality Ferdinando Buscema