gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow

art Child hit with $132,000 bill for accidentally knocking over sculpture David Pescovitz

Gadgets You won't want to miss out on these Memorial Day kitchen steals Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

useful stuff The time I risked my life borrowing a Draft-Matic Mechanical Pencil Mark Frauenfelder

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

books Now, more than ever, it's time to use cat hair for crafting Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Ready to turn the kitchen into your new safe space? These appliances and cooking aids are all you need. Boing Boing's Shop

art Why Warhol painted soup cans David Pescovitz

Gadgets 20 cool car gadgets that will change the way you drive Boing Boing's Shop

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

DIY New demand for very old farm tractors specifically because they're low tech David Pescovitz

happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow

tabloids Penis fish, Simon Cowell’s missing boobs, and Hillary Clinton’s gay flings, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Family puts Ring camera in children's room, discovers that hacker is watching their kids 24/7, taunting them through the speaker Cory Doctorow

valve You can pick up a Steam Controller for five bucks now Seamus Bellamy

science fiction That time Charlton Comics published a trans sci-fi story in 1953 Thom Dunn

late stage capitalism The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%'s growth comes from the upper middle class Cory Doctorow