psyops The Sinophobic history of brainwashing Thom Dunn

Psychological Hack Avoid "mental rebelling" to be happier Claudia Dawson

video games A game where virtual friendship turns nightmarish: KinitoPET's psychological horror experience Gail Sherman

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

whispers The Lincoln Project's new video has just one goal — to freak out Trump Carla Sinclair

Boing Boing Gadgets From Star Wars to Borderlands, check out these Steam games at big savings Boing Boing's Shop

politics Disinformation 2020: FBI warns of ongoing Russian 'information warfare' Xeni Jardin

politics The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate "winner take all" and its power to warp perceptions Cory Doctorow

tabloids How Mafia Killed the Pope, Meghan & Harry quit the Royal Family, and the Obamas divorce, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics Secret emails show Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica earlier than they've said, DC AG claims Xeni Jardin

facebook Facebook and Big Tech are monopsonies, even when they're not monopolies Cory Doctorow

facebook Megathread of Facebook's terrible, horrible, no-good eternity Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Six, The History of Telepathic Infant-Based Mind Control of U.S. Presidents Ethan Persoff

racism Pregnant women are being abused in Trump's ICE detention camps Xeni Jardin

science fiction Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky's State of the World address, 2018 edition Cory Doctorow

podcasts Why we often choose to keep useful information out of our heads David McRaney

microdosing Woman will share results of her year of psilocybin microdosing Mark Frauenfelder

better part of valor Killing my unfinished game dev projects Rob Beschizza

tabloids National Enquirer thinks Trump is almost too smart for his own good Peter Sheridan