Culture Creative industry workers suffer the most stolen wages, according to UNESCO Thom Dunn

art Drew Friedman's latest book: Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy Mark Frauenfelder

Musical instruments The original Beatles recording console is on sale for $3 million Thom Dunn

electronic music The Faint: 25 years of Blank Wave Arcade (Todd Fink Interview) Lee Keeler

art Ward Sutton's faux conservative cartoonist "Kelly" goes highbrow in LA Ruben Bolling

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

animation Inside the struggle to unionize the animation industry Thom Dunn

Science AI crawlers run up a website's hosting bill Jason Weisberger

filmmaking OpenAI's generative video software is more tedious than actual filmmaking Thom Dunn

News RIP Steve Albini, influential producer and musician (1962-2024) Mark Frauenfelder

politics Kremlin Krazy: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet is straight from Putin's propaganda playbook Mark Frauenfelder

conceptual art Artist Damien Hirst falsely dated recent sculptures to noteworthy period Natalie Dressed

3-D scanned images OpenVertebrate is a massive database of 3-D scanned images of 13,000 (and counting!) vertebrate specimens Jennifer Sandlin

interview Interview with Case Esparros, independent filmmaker and director of "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost" Natalie Dressed

Comics Aquaman, Metamorpho, and Brenda Starr cartoonist Ramona Fradon retires Ruben Bolling

crime Oregon newspaper lays off staff and ends print edition after embezzler drains funds Rob Beschizza

tech Spotify to lay off 1500 workers Rob Beschizza

occult "Occult Strategies"explores magical practice through play Gareth Branwyn

Boing Boing Gadgets Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro are the perfect pair, and you can have 'em both for a mere $49.97! Boing Boing's Shop

music Celebrate the 47th anniversary of the release of Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" by watching this documentary Ruben Bolling