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Gadgets Ready to turn the kitchen into your new safe space? These appliances and cooking aids are all you need. Boing Boing's Shop
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tabloids Nipple clamps, squeezed breasts, and a Royal rude awakening, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
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health Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room "surprise bills": private equity firms that own doctors' practices Cory Doctorow
Safety Life in prison plus 150 years for monster who secretly filmed kids in their bedrooms Seamus Bellamy
privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow
tabloids Royal Scandals: Drugs, Divorce, and Free Booze for Life, in this week’s royally dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for access to livestreams Cory Doctorow
tabloid journalism Did the ‘National Enquirer’ finally get one right with its sensational exposé of Bezos’s affair? Peter Sheridan
