floss Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow

Business Colin Kaepernick joining the board of Medium David Pescovitz

racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

occupy Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an abandoned police station Thom Dunn

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

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

420 This 420 podcast about Black Holes will blow your mind with the power of Christ Thom Dunn

coronavirus Wisconsin voters risked their lives last week — and voted out the party that made them risk their lives Thom Dunn

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

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

poetry Ferlinghetti's prescient poem, "Pity the Nation," describes actual SOTU, 2020 Gareth Branwyn

privacy "Edge AI": encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips Cory Doctorow

privacy Facial recognition isn't just bad because it invades privacy: it's because privacy invasions fuel discrimination Cory Doctorow

music Jazz great Jack Sheldon, the voice of Schoolhouse Rock!, RIP David Pescovitz

privacy Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info, all accounts and passwords, calendar, contacts, cloud docs, financial data, photos, location history, search history, call records, etc Cory Doctorow

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

memes What would Noam Chomsky think about the linguistic development of Baby Yoda? Thom Dunn

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

corruption As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed Cory Doctorow

microsoft Microsoft’s Cortana is sleeping with the fishes Seamus Bellamy