privacy NSA dumps docs about its Snowden response, reveals that Snowden repeatedly raised alarms about spying Cory Doctorow

about face Fox host Steve Doocy pushes the idea that Trump should wear a mask Carla Sinclair

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

Spoken Word with Electronics Behold, Massospora! The Insect Pandemic That Turns Cicadas Into Uncontrollable Sex Addicts Ethan Persoff

politics Justifying police violence, Trump lies about Buffalo man bleeding from ear after police attack Xeni Jardin

Comic Books Talking The Rough Pearl with Xeric Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Kevin Mutch Jeffery Klaehn

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

rights Original "Yesterday" screenwriter says Richard Curtis took more than a one-sentence idea Rob Beschizza

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Give your Microsoft Excel skills a boost with this $30 training bundle Boing Boing's Shop

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Gadgets Arcadia brings more clean energy to your home — and it may actually lower your bill Boing Boing's Shop

tips On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly offers 68 bits of unsolicited advice Mark Frauenfelder

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

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

tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder