privacy Facebook's "shadow profiles": the involuntary dossiers of information you never provided, and can't opt out of Cory Doctorow
books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn
Gadgets These home office essentials will have your home feeling like a real office Boing Boing's Shop
putin Putin just demonstrated how a leader can constitutionally lock himself into power forever Thom Dunn
tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman
surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow
Business Chrome is patching a bug that lets sites detect and block private browsing mode, declares war on incognito-blocking Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder
guillotine watch When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow
uk How Boris Johnson's "model bus hobby" non sequitur manipulated the public discourse and his search results Cory Doctorow
