I didn't understand the fad for button-only arcade controllers. It alarmed and frightened me, like the first time I looked at the Billboard music top 10 and didn't recognize the… Read the rest of the article: Have you used a button-only arcade controller?
In this instagram video of a facebook post of an embedded tweet of a tik tok post, a cat says "Well Hi!" in a distinctive Southern accent.
Subscription services make it easy to sign up and hard to quit. Even companies that boast about their ethics turn to dark patterns when it comes to retention: the New… Read the rest of the article: FTC wants to ban subscriptions that you can't easily cancel
In January, Jennifer Sandlin blogged here about Afroman's music videos featuring footage of Adams County Sheriff's deputies raiding his home. In making light of the experience, "Will You Help Me… Read the rest of the article: Afroman filmed the cops raiding his home and made funny music videos with the footage. Now they're suing him over their hurt feelings.
In Australia, stinging trees bristle with needle-like hairs which deliver a potent neurotoxin to anyone foolish enough to touch them . A string of hospitalizations–one victim described "100 per cent… Read the rest of the article: Australians warned not to touch or even approach the poisonous Dendrocnide moroides trees there
The American Library Association said today that attempts to ban books from schools and libraries hit a record high in the United States last year, with the number of proposed… Read the rest of the article: Book bans hit record high, overwhelmingly targeting titles by or about queer or Black people
Ugandan lawmakers passed a more literal "Don't say gay" law than Florida's grade-school ban on such discussions, making it outright illegal to identify as LGBTQ there. Homosexual acts are already… Read the rest of the article: Uganda bans even saying you're gay
They're such a loyal and brave lot, the Proud Boys. Last week we one running from trouble at a New York protest–"I came here to help, not get the shit… Read the rest of the article: Turns out a Proud Boy defense witness is a secret government informant
Abortion is legal again in Wyoming, for now, after a federal judge reversed its new ban on the procedure. CNN reports that Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens put… Read the rest of the article: Federal judge blocks Wyoming abortion ban
After 25 years of camera news, reviews and discussion, DPReview is to be shut down in April. One of the best gadget sites on the 'net, it offers completist coverage… Read the rest of the article: Amazon-owned camera review site DPReview shutting down
West Texas A&M University president Walter Wendler banned a drag show on campus–and made absolutely clear he knows what he did is unconstitutional and that he doesn't care. A harmless… Read the rest of the article: Public university president bans drag show and promises to ignore "the law of the land"
Florida lawmaker Joseph Harding, 35, gained national attention for his sponsorship of that state's "Don't Say Gay" law, which forbids discussion of gender identity and sexuality in grade school. Harding… Read the rest of the article: Florida Republican behind state's "Don't Say Gay" law pleads guilty to defrauding Covid relief fund
Mitchell Guerrero, 30, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment and 3 more on supervised release for selling 3D-printed firearms. The untraceable "ghost guns" were made in… Read the rest of the article: Man who sold 3D-printed guns jailed for 4 years
A report by Dame Louise Casey concluded that racism, misogyny and homophobia are "pervasive" at London's Metropolitan Police Service, the world's second-largest law enforcement agency after the NYPD. The report… Read the rest of the article: London's police force "rotten" and pervaded by racism, homophobia and misogyny, according to report it commissioned
Fox News producer Abby Grossberg filed two lawsuits Monday which allege the network "coerced" her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Systems' $1.6bn defamation case against it. Dominion made the… Read the rest of the article: Fox News producer claims company coerced her into lying in court
Russians know that the mercenaries employed to bolster the country's bogged-down invasion of Ukraine are bad news, and they talk about it. Not any more, if they want to stay… Read the rest of the article: Putin bans criticism of the mercenaries propping up Russia's war in Ukraine
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones blew off multiple defamation trials after he was sued by the Sandy Hook parents he libeled on his show, but he started turning up when it… Read the rest of the article: NYT: Alex Jones "concealing funds" to avoid paying Sandy Hook families
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told staff that they may soon face threats and intimidation from supporters of former President Donald Trump, who is expected to be arrested and indicted… Read the rest of the article: With Trump arrest expected soon, Manhattan DA warns staff they may face threats and intimidation
You know how stock image libraries such as Getty Images are in the habit of asking money for public domain works such as old photographs and illustrations? Boing Boing co-founder… Read the rest of the article: Stock photo sites' abuse of public domain images countered with better copies and a $0 price tag
A man is in jail after posting a nasty message to 4chan suggesting someone kill a Florida sheriff. Richard Golden, 38, was arrested at his mother's house Thursday. Upon answering… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you write on 4chan that someone should kill an anti-Nazi sheriff
