Sean Hollister exclusively paws at Framework's 16-inch laptop, which offers premium style and form but also a level of user access–to repair, upgrade and customize–you'll never see out of Cupertino or Redmond. A game-credible GPU the (Radeon RX 7700S) is available, and even the ports and speakers are modular: "It's an immediate joy for tinkerers like me," he writes. — Read the rest

Pharmaceutical capitalism and the criminalization of addiction puts evidence-based treatment for opioid addiction out of reach for many people. Profit motives and punishment are not perspectives that lend themselves to healing and/or safe communities.

This "Issue Brief" from PEW Charitable Trust, explains "Opioid treatment programs (OTPs) are the only health care facilities that can offer patients all three forms of FDA-approved medication for opioid use disorder (OUD): methadone, buprenorphine, and injectable extended-release naltrexone. — Read the rest

Even a haven starts feeling like a cage when you’re used to roaming.

The Financial Times reports that Larry Ellison's Oracle has entered the race to acquire TikTok. The short video sharing social media app is Chinese-owned, under attack by Donald Trump, and is also being pursued by Microsoft.

A group is reportedly working with investors on behalf of Oracle in an effort to outbid Microsoft after the recent Trump divestment order. — Read the rest

So that shindig that was being planned to capitalize upon the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival? Not happening. I think that's fine: some moments deserve to be looked back upon, relished and then, left the hell alone. As the festival's main focus was music (I mean there were naked people, a ton of mud and some questionable LSD, but still), the best way to do a bit of relishing, in my opinion, is to kick back with a few of the tunes cranked out by Woodstock's many musicians. — Read the rest

Uber is a wildly unprofitable company with no conceivable path to profitability in any universe, under any circumstances, but the company's founders and early investors (having already taken massive write-downs on their investments) are hoping to get at least some of their money back through the time-honored "greater fool" methodology. — Read the rest

Just what we needed, said exactly no one.

NYC punk band The New York Rats is launching their new album on Sunday: it's a heavy vinyl LP with amazing sleeve art by Andrea Sicco; the album itself is Ramones-y, Husker-Du-ish uptempo punk that I've had on heavy rotation all week: it's 7:30PM on at Our Wicked Lady, 153 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn.

Microsoft's deceptive hard-sell to gets users to "upgrade" to Windows 10 (the most control-freaky OS to ever come out of Redmond) is made all the more awful by just how much personal, sensitive, compromising data Microsoft exfiltrates from its users' PCs once they make the switch.

Behold Lunate, an intriguing swipe-based system for typing on an Apple watch. You can try it out yourself right now by downloading the Lunate app on an Iphone or Ipad.

Mike's Amazing Cakes (previously) of Redmond, WA made this detailed, wildly improbable Batcave cake for a client, complete with a cake Adam-West-era Batmobile.

Russian police use the pretense of enforcing Microsoft's copyrights as an excuse to raid the offices of human rights, environmental and dissident NGOs, and Microsoft has not intervened to stop it, even when the groups are using legitimate, licensed copies of Microsoft software. — Read the rest

Microsoft sank at least a quarter of a billion dollars into the Kin, its recently canceled cellphone. This is on top of its $500m acquisition of Danger, absorbed in order to develop it. Notwithstanding Kin's shortcomings as a product, the most entertaining aspect of the cock-up is that it appears to be the result of ego battles in Redmond: rumor has it that Kin was throttled in its billion-dollar crib by an executive who saw it as a threat to Windows Mobile. — Read the rest

People keep saying that netbooks are dead, and they're right: size, features and pricing have all but merged back into the mainstream, making them little less than unpleasant laptops. With the Skylight, announced today, Lenovo puts new technology — Qualcomm's Snapdragon CPU and a custom UI — into reviving the svelte, simple, good-enough notebooks that got us so excited three years ago.

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the
author of books including Backyard
Ballistics, and the recently-published Absinthe
and Flamethrowers. Follow him on Twitter: @wmgurst.)

I don't purport to be an expert in things computer and Internet related. — Read the rest

Douglas Rushkoff was a guest blogger.

Google SVP David Drummond published a post titled "Yahoo! and the future of the Internet" a couple of hours ago on the official Google blog. It's the first official statement I'm aware of on the matter from Google. Snip:

The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo!

A couple of weeks ago I posted a couple of entries about people who refused to give up their homes to new development and ended up being surround by a parking lot, freeway, or airport. Many readers offered stories of other holdouts. — Read the rest

Baron sez, "This is a fascinating read on how S. Korea with all the fancy 3G phones, best broadband coverage, and electronics is shackled to Windows because of a government proprietary encryption format based on Active X. It prevents people from using Linux, Firefox, and is even holding back Vista because all secure transactions require it!" — Read the rest

Wired has a fascinating feature on the way that Microsoft is changing gears as Bill Gates steps away from daily operations, leaving Lotus Notes inventor Ray Ozzie in his place. Ray is a friend of mine, and is nothing like the other Microsoft execs I've met — he's a grassroots, P2P, social software kind of guy, not a shouter or a swaggerer. — Read the rest