politics Tibetan man gets five years in prison for speaking about his native language Séamus Bellamy

Business Marriott fires employee for "willfully liking" a tweet in support of Tibetan independence Cory Doctorow

Reviews This is not a review of "BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" Elías Villoro

tabloids Monkeypox is a Chinese bioweapon in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

spyware Lithuania tells consumers to throw away Chinese-made phones because they have baked-in censorship tools Mark Frauenfelder

music New video for Iggy Pop's spoken-song based on Lou Reed poem David Pescovitz

censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow

books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow

News FILM: 'Calling All Earthlings' explores Integratron Time Machine of UFO 'contactee' George Van Tassel Eric Mittleman

bong bong An awesome bong packed full of 'frop takes your Slack to the next level Boing Boing

refugees Tibetan free library opens doors to readers in India, with help from Boing Boing readers Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

libraries How you can help India's first free public library for the Tibetan exile community Xeni Jardin

china To see the future, visit the most remote areas of the GBAO Cory Doctorow

tibet Listen to the late actor Alan Rickman read a Tibetan exile's real-life torture testimony Xeni Jardin

india Help fill the first free public library for India's Tibetan exile community with books Xeni Jardin

tibet The Dalai Lama Will Not Return to Lead Tibet (He Has Something Better in Mind) Jason Louv

Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life Mark Dery

Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger, and the psychedelic interstellar future we need Jason Louv