Boing Boing Gadgets BC town votes to install imaginary GPS trackers in criminals Cory Doctorow

law Top eviction lawyer barely sanctioned for citing fake cases possibly made by AI Natalie Dressed

Games Microsoft now owns Infocom and its interaction fiction classics Rob Beschizza

trump Trump's Truth Social tries to pitch losing funding as good news Jason Weisberger

activism Read about the activists who helped bring down bleach-peddling, wellness-grifting Grenon family Jennifer Sandlin

books Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Oni Press team up for new anti-censorship initiative and fundraiser party Thom Dunn

AI Cyberpunk legend Bruce Sterling tackles the rise of artificial intelligence David Pescovitz

italy An old Italian tradition of conjuring fictional streets helps homeless people today Ruben Bolling

colonialism Puerto Ricans resist disaster capitalists and "Puertopians" in Hurricane Maria's wake Elías Villoro

musicals First-ever Nancy Drew stage musical in works Rusty Blazenhoff

DC Comics Comics writer Grant Morrison is now officially a fictional character in the DC movie universe Thom Dunn

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

Republicans Texas senator wants to label food that contains aborted human fetuses Carla Sinclair

books Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz

History When some Christians were pro-choice and pro-segregation Elías Villoro

Games Ikea threatens developer of indie horror game set in parody of store David Pescovitz

john prine Happy belated birthday to John Prine Jennifer Sandlin

museums John Oliver on the big problem with museums Jennifer Sandlin

surveillance Exposé on local police's use of Fog Reveal, a platform for mass-surveillance of small-town America Rob Beschizza

trolls Wikipedia's list of "long-term abusers" reads like a roster of pathetic supervillains Mark Frauenfelder