History An 1875 coffin for Little Joe, the canary who saved a mine crew Popkin

cute This air quality monitor is a cute bird that dies when you need to air out your home Gail Sherman

cuisine Chick-Fil-A and Panera Bread abandon pledges not to use antibiotic-raised chicken Rob Beschizza

Technology Waymo, facing opposition against expansion in San Francisco, announces Austin as a new market Jennifer Sandlin

Sears and Roebuck’s monkey business When you could buy a monkey from the Sears mail-order catalog Elías Villoro

immigration Three migrants stowed away on a ship's rudder for 11-day voyage from Nigeria David Pescovitz

documentaries "This Belongs To Us" is a new documentary about the African women in beer making Thom Dunn

law Creating a "coercion resistant" communications system Cory Doctorow

denialism A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial Cory Doctorow

music Devo's open letter on "Drowning in a Devolved World" Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Sentimental coal-miners carried canary resuscitators to revive their feathered lifesavers Cory Doctorow

Copyfight One of the net's most important freedom canaries died the day the W3C greenlit web-wide DRM; what can we learn from the fight? Cory Doctorow

birds Uplifting! USPS replaces dead canaries after live bird shipment crushed, mangled Rob Beschizza

class war Company town + Internet of Things + Drones = total surveillance of remote mine workers Cory Doctorow

security How governments and cyber-militias attack civil society groups, and what they can do about it Cory Doctorow

Reddit can't talk about National Security Letters and warrant canaries, but ACLU can, in a Reddit AMA, LOL Xeni Jardin

surveillance Reddit's Warrant Canary just died Cory Doctorow

politics Using distributed code-signatures to make it much harder to order secret backdoors Cory Doctorow

security The FBI has no trouble spying on encrypted communications Cory Doctorow