politics Twitterbot experiment suggests that public disapproval by white men can reduce harassers' use of racist language Cory Doctorow

media Right-wing media ran dozens of "Middle East hot takes" by fake authors Rob Beschizza

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

Gadgets Canva Pro can be the ultimate design tool for all us non-designers Boing Boing's Shop

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

surveillance Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Bill Budington

nazis The Guardian has outed the true identity of the mysterious founder of the Base, a white nationalist terror group Cory Doctorow

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

music New biography of electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos David Pescovitz

cryptocurrency Creditors of dead cryptocurrency exec want to exhume his body Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes were made Runner who slapped journalist on butt is Tommy Callaway, a youth minister and boy scout leader in Statesboro, Georgia Mark Frauenfelder

language The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

anxiety A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety Thom Dunn

canada Sidewalk Labs' quiet plan for Canada's banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing Lilian Radovac

toronto Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs' Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy Cory Doctorow

race Les gilets noirs: a French protest movement defending migrants' rights Cory Doctorow

homelessness Homeless people not welcome on Nextdoor Xeni Jardin

security In Cambridge Analytica clean-up, Facebook says it killed 'Tens of Thousands' of apps Xeni Jardin

facebook Facebook employee dead after 'apparent suicide' at headquarters Xeni Jardin