automatic resignations A new judge in Texas accidentally resigns after an online post he shouldn't have made Carla Sinclair

tips Freakonomics interviews Kevin Kelly about his "68 bits of unsolicited advice" Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Mu Tag pays attention to your stuff when you aren’t and right now, it’s under $30 Boing Boing's Shop

mistakes Wonkette posts bizarre cease-and-desist letter it received from "Diamond and Silk" Rob Beschizza

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

politics Consultant helps game developers not do stupid things such as decorate lava levels with Stars of David Rob Beschizza

youtube Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube Cory Doctorow

censorship Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them Cory Doctorow

law Of $208m in fines leveled against robocallers, the FCC has collected … $6,790 Rob Beschizza

monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

security Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Talking about the DMCA and 20 years of tech law malpractice on PRI's Marketplace Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Big Bang: the "stupid patent" on teledildonics has expired Cory Doctorow

News Trump-Putin in Helsinki: Transcript and Video Xeni Jardin

Technology The internet, 2008-2018: what's changed? Cory Doctorow

videos The Paradox of Tolerance: should intolerance be tolerated? Cory Doctorow

Technology The ethics of upgrading your brain with implants David Pescovitz

picks Watch: Driver confuses stairs for parking garage, then forgets emergency brake Carla Sinclair

class war Extreme wealth inequality will always devour the societies that produce it Cory Doctorow

books Read: chapter two of WALKAWAY, in which buildings build themselves Cory Doctorow