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Four Futures: using science fiction to challenge late stage capitalism and...
Frase's Four Futures are: 1. Communism ("equality and abundance") 2. Rentism ("hierarchy and abundance") 3. Socialism ("equality and scarcity") 4. Exterminism ("hierarchy and scarcity") Starting from...
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How to agree with something Trump does without endorsing trumpism
When Donald Trump killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a "trade deal" that had been negotiated by representatives of multinational corporations and government bureaucrats in utmost secrecy in order...
View ArticleDeliberate leaking is a time-honored government tactic that Trump doesn't...
Governments have "official" unofficial leaking policies, releasing tons of confidential material to the press without any attribution or public acknowledgement: they leak stuff to maintain good press...
View ArticleFreaked out about Trump's assault on net neutrality? Come work for EFF on...
Trump's FCC is shaping up to be a complete disaster: the new Chairman is dismantling privacy protections and broadband subsidies for low-income Americans, plans to allow the pending...
View ArticleCIPPIC: Standing Guard for Canadians' Digital Rights
CIPPIC is the University of Ottawa's Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Canada's public interest digital rights advocates. CIPPIC champions the public interest in...
View ArticleCanada stripped the TPP of its terrible IP proposals: will the US seek...
It's been nearly a year since Trump killed the Trans Pacific Partnership by pulling the US out of it; last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada and the other TPP...
View ArticleTrade negotiators are increasingly unwilling to entertain "corporate...
One of the most repugnant features of international trade agreements, from TPP to TTIP to CETA, is the "Investor State Dispute Settlement" (ISDS) clause, which gives corporations the power to sue...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau's NAFTA concessions include 20 year copyright extension
Donald Trump has wrung many concessions out of Justin Trudeau on the NAFTA renegotiation, but none is more nonsensical and potentially damaging than a 20 year copyright term extension that will bring...
View ArticleScorched Star Trek:TOS redshirts
These full-sublimation Star Trek redshirts allow you to LARP an expendable security team-member who's met a horrible end, or a character in an existential John Scalzi comedy: they're $33.88 at Stylin...
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Boing Boing Gift Guide: Toys and more!
Enjoy the third and final part of this year's gift guide: toys! Also included are everything else that doesn't quite fit into our picks among the books and gadgets to enchant and enwonderize us in...
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Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016
Here's this year's complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: more than a hundred great ideas for prezzies: technology, toys, books and more. Scroll down and buy things, mutants! Many of the items use Amazon...
View ArticleInterview with Prince Ea
I like Prince Ea's videos because he talks about important issues in the world: the health of our planet, racism, and being kind to each other. He made a video about a DNA test he took to learn about...
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Check out this psychedelic 'Yellow Submarine' bass
This gorgeous yellow beauty is the handiwork of The Painted Player Guitar Co., a crew of artists and luthiers located in the United Kingdom. This groovy bass guitar is, of course, based on the Beatles'...
View ArticleThis guy had a stroke after white supremacists doused him in torch fuel and...
My friend John Park sent me the following: This is an article about my old friend, UVa housemate, fellow Glee Club member, and all around wonderful character, D.R. Tyler Magill, who took on Nazis in...
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StratoEnergetics introduces new Slaughterbot autonomous weapon
Looking like an iPhone rollout or creepy TED Talk, this sci-fi PSA from the group Stop Autonomous Weapons looks at a possible near future of autonomous drones trained to kill a specific human target....
View ArticleTobacco giant Philip Morris is quietly funding an "anti-smoking" foundation...
Derek Yach, president of The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, sent a letter to 344 public health researchers and groups inviting them to bid for grants from a $1b fund set up by tobacco giant -- the...
View ArticleBoston Police Union throws a tantrum over Black Lives Matter at school week
Boston's got a bad reputation when it comes to race. And unfortunately, much of it's deserved. Of course, there are people who are trying to fight and make a positive difference despite the segregation...
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This app puts a hi-tech spin on practicing with sheet music
Whether you’re dedicated to practicing with an instrument or just want to learn to play for the first time, diving into music can be daunting. One of the steepest learning curves for budding musicians...
View ArticleThis children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist...
There's been a lot of news lately about taking down monuments to terrible people, or renaming buildings that were christened after them. In related news, there's still a statue of Oliver Cromwell...
View ArticleChicken enjoys riding bicycle with human
This unusual chicken enjoys joining their human for a relaxing bike ride. Turns out that chicken is not the only chicken who enjoys a bit of cycling. Here's one in Denmark. They're a silkie chicken....
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