elections Presidential fundraising scorecard: who's raising the most and who is most beholden to the ultra-wealthy and corporations? Cory Doctorow

podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets 30 items on sale for Memorial Day that'll improve your home and beyond Boing Boing's Shop

lost and found Virginia family found $1 million cash in the middle of the road David Pescovitz

videogames Talking Adventure Games with Dave Gilbert Jeffery Klaehn

coronavirus Entrepreneurs are seeing mini-empires of Airbnb properties collapse Mark Frauenfelder

Business Businesses and stores are adding AI to security cameras for social distancing and mask-wearing compliance Xeni Jardin

crime Ex-Microsoft engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currencies from Microsoft to make extravagant purchases Xeni Jardin

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

Gadgets Ace your taxes and become more financially literate with this training Boing Boing's Shop

fbi The FBI doesn't need Apple to give it a backdoor to encryption, because it already has all the access it needs Thom Dunn

crime Spain: Cops free 100s of dogs from illegal puppy farm, 5 people arrested Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Forget the gym membership. Stay fit in 2020 with this portable home gym Boing Boing's Shop

Business Big Telco wants more federal money to offer slower rural broadband Cory Doctorow

retro Model rocket pioneer, Vern Estes, celebrates his 90th birthday Gareth Branwyn

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

canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei

Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow

corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow

class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow