happy mutants With EraseCOVID, artists and designers have created cool Public Safety Art Rusty Blazenhoff

animation Excellent 1990 electrical safety video for kids starring VOLTON and hallucinatory CGI David Pescovitz

law Beware this marijuana vaping cartridge brand Xeni Jardin

Business Amazon's plan for traffic deaths from same-day delivery: deflect blame to anonymous subcontractors Cory Doctorow

Copyfight EU hijacking: self-driving car data will be copyrighted…by the manufacturer Cory Doctorow

telcoms Santa Clara fire department: Verizon's pants are on fire Cory Doctorow

fbi FBI admits to giving flawed testimony for decades Mark Frauenfelder

Public safety Model predicts broken fire alarms Rob Beschizza

music Watch Blondie's Debbie Harry on a pogo stick explaining the punk Pogo dance (1978) David Pescovitz

police Police militarization is objectively bad for police and for society, according to science Thom Dunn

COVID-19 COVID Safety Guidelines for Shared Workshops Gareth Branwyn

News Arizona closes bars, nightclubs, gyms, movie theaters and water parks for 30 days as coronavirus ravages state Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores Rob Beschizza

jeffrey epstein The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam Thom Dunn

books The "Into the Wild Bus" is gone David Pescovitz

COVID-19 Obsessive-compulsive disorder as practice for COVID-19 David Pescovitz

sponsored CBD on Amazon: Not Such a Great Deal Boing Boing

to serve and protect and slash tires Cops slash dozens of car tires, then lie about why they did it Mark Frauenfelder

#blacklivesmatter Man who aimed bow and arrow at Salt Lake City protesters charged with three felonies Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Autopsy shows George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19 in April Xeni Jardin