happy mutants The Third Electronic Literature Anthology: Unity, Javascript & Twitterbots Cory Doctorow

Gadgets These toys and games can keep the kids busy while you’re all trapped inside Boing Boing's Shop

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

star wars Did "The Phantom Menace" actually predict the rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon? Thom Dunn

media Royal sex scandal lies, lawsuits and hair loss, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

ink-stained wretches Bot authors a most-read article at The Next Web Clive Thompson

infinite monkeys StoryAI, a bot that autocompletes a story for you Clive Thompson

telemarketers Vacation scammer telemarketer spends 15 minutes talking to a bot Mark Frauenfelder

health Robotic nursing aide wins over both skeptical nurses and their patients Cory Doctorow

class war Stop saying "robots are coming for your job"; start saying "Your boss wants to replace you with a robot" Cory Doctorow

privacy Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don't Cory Doctorow

scholarship German neofascists used Qanon to expand their reach Cory Doctorow

google EU Commission calls opponents of Copyright Directive a "mob," as thousands take to the streets for the #Artikel13Demo Cory Doctorow

Science Ancient civilizations' fascination with AI, robots, and synthetic life David Pescovitz

Copyfight The EU's plan to impose mandatory copyright filters is on life-support and may die Cory Doctorow

eff The EU says it wants Europeans to engage with it: now that 4 MILLION of them have opposed mass censorship through #Article13, will they listen? Cory Doctorow

california Google sister company is trialing a mosquito eradication plan in Fresno Cory Doctorow

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

social media Algorithmic anti-semitism and computational propaganda David Pescovitz