Space Japan plans to land a human on the moon by 2030 Rob Beschizza

kickstarter Jane Metcalfe, co-founder NEO.LIFE, has a cool upcoming book Mark Frauenfelder

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

aliens A UFO-themed brothel is now providing remote services for its alien sex robots Thom Dunn

happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow

rpgs The Outer Worlds is coming to the Nintendo Switch Seamus Bellamy

apollo Brian Eno, Roger Eno, and Daniel Lanois discuss the recording of "Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks" Gareth Branwyn

1a The platforms suck at content moderation and demanding they do more won't make them better at it — but there ARE concrete ways to improve moderation Cory Doctorow

security Security researcher warns of power company customers' passwords being stored in the clear, software provider responds with lawyer-letter Cory Doctorow

books What do reverse cyborgs want? A review of David Marusek's Glassing the Orgachine Eric Heyne

News FCC closed due to government shutdown, Ajit Pai won't be at CES Xeni Jardin

eff EFF's guide to creepy, surveillant Christmas gifts Cory Doctorow

Red Dead Redemption 2's multiplayer world about to launch Jason Weisberger

eff EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU's Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Important victory in Public Resource's tireless fight to make the law free for everyone Cory Doctorow

booze To boldly drink and regret the night before: there's Star Trek vodka to be had Seamus Bellamy

Copyfight More than a million Europeans spoke out to stop internet-destroying censorship rules, but the fight's not over Cory Doctorow

happy mutants EFF has released STARTTLS Everywhere: free tools to encrypt email between mail servers Cory Doctorow