apple Apple's trying to block rude emoji combos from AirTag engravings, but it's not hard to fool Rob Beschizza

rpgs Tabletop gamer's gift guide for 2024 Gareth Branwyn

Games The New York Times Tech Guild built a page of games to play during the strike Gail Sherman

Boing Boing Gadgets This MacBook Pro's Touch Bar helped me skip through annoying ads Boing Boing's Shop

fantasy Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition Gareth Branwyn

politics With apologies, it is overwhelmingly in the media's interest that Trump wins Rob Beschizza

donald trump Video lays out what Trump's first 100 "horrific days" as dictator would look like Mark Frauenfelder

donald trump Trump's top AG pick hates democracy, loves cages for kids Mark Frauenfelder

documentaries "Open Wide" tells the history of the "mewing" TikTok trend, through a deep dive into the controversial practice of orthotropics and its evangelists, John and Mike Mew Jennifer Sandlin

fox news Linda Ronstadt's 1983 warning about Rupert Murdoch's dangerous media tactics was eerily prophetic Mark Frauenfelder

bananas From capitalism to banana-less society: the bizarre vision of socialists exposed! Thom Dunn

tabloids A paranoid prince, proof of UFOs, and a panicked Trump in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

cnn CNN fires CEO Chris Licht after a pretty bad, Trump-friendly year Carla Sinclair

music The Swedish rock album that came with a supplemental reading list Elías Villoro

politics CBC "pauses" Twitter use after it gets the dreaded government tag Rob Beschizza

MAGA cultists Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, on GOP's two-faced talking points Mark Frauenfelder

politics The origins of student debt Elías Villoro

free speech An actual thoughtful discussion about what "cancel culture" does and doesn't mean Thom Dunn

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz