Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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The grimly repeating history of homophobia at The New York Times
Jack Mirkinson writes that The New York Times’ reportorial hostility to trans people echoes a long history of homophobia—something for which it has apologized in recent years, but learned lit… → Read More
Adobe ends support for Type 1 fonts
Type 1 fonts, the kind that came with Macs in the 1990s, will no longer be supported by Adobe software. Unless you’ve been around a long while, chances are this won’t affect you. But de… → Read More
Gamething is an "audio book club" about videogames by Pippin Barr and David Wolinsky
Art game legend Pippin Barr (previously, previously, previously, previously, previously as Boing Boing and Offworld) is taping GAMETHING, an audio book club about videogames, in collaboration with … → Read More
Jan. 6 committee refers criminal charges for Trump to Department of Justice
Four charges for Donald Trump (and more for various cronies of his) were today recommended to the Department of Justice by the Jan. 6 committee over his involvement in the sacking of the U.S. Capit… → Read More
Illustrious resumé of incoming New York GOP congressman is work of fiction
The New York Times reports that Representative-elect George Santos, voted into to Congress last month on the GOP’s New York ticket, lied on his resumé. Contrary to what he claims, “empl… → Read More
After outcry over blocking links to Mastodon, Twitter announces ban on "promotion" of other social platforms
Twitter today announced it would “no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms” on the site, specfying “Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, No… → Read More
Top journalists banned from Twitter without notification or explanation—and Mastodon's account is gone too.
A number of prominent journalists’ accounts were suspended on Twitter this evening, including those of correspondents from CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Aaron Rupar, Ryan M… → Read More
Twitter suspends account tracking Musk's private jet travel
Air travel is a matter of public record, and ElonJet was a Twitter account that showed whenever Elon Musk’s private jet was in the sky—an embarassment for a man who declared “climate change i… → Read More
Biden signs same-sex and interracial marriage into federal law
President Joe Biden today signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which federally protects same-sex and interracial marriages and obliges states to recognize them—though not to issue marriage licenses… → Read More
Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas
Sam Bankman-Fried was founder and face of the crypto exchange FTX, which collapsed last month, wiping out billions in customer assets and leaving evidence of financial backdoors and other shenaniga… → Read More
Composer Angelo Badalamenti dead at 85
Angelo Badalamenti, who composed the 1992 Olympic torch theme and often worked with director David Lynch, is dead at 85. Badalamenti wrote the music for most of Twin Peaks without having seen any o… → Read More
New documentary: "A Very British Way of Torture."
Al Jazeera recently made available a documentary film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman focusing on the stories of people hit by the institutionalized and gratuitous violence of colonial rule… → Read More
Lupe Fiasco to teach at MIT: "Rap is a Lossless Data Compression Algorithm"
In this extensive interview with Okay Player, Lupe Fiasco discusses his most recent album, Drill Music in Zion, the criminalization of HipHop, technology, science, and the humanities, and his relat… → Read More
Twitter cleaners fired without severance pay, just in time for Christmas
In addition to being crudely converted into a hotel so its diminished staff can work longer hours, the headquarters of Twitter will soon be as filthy and noisome as an early-hours hackathon: it has… → Read More
Cop who helped kill George Floyd faces sentencing for manslaughter
J. Alexander Kueng, one of the Minneapolis cops filmed killing George Floyd in May 2020, pleaded guilty earlier this year to manslaughter and will be sentenced today on the state charge. Unless the… → Read More
Same sex and interracial marriage act passes House, heads to Biden's desk
Thirty-nine House Republicans joined Democrats today to pass a bill giving federal protection to same-sex and interracial marriage, which was passed last week in the Senate. The law now heads to th… → Read More
Republican lawmaker behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law charged with fraud and money laundering
Florida Rep. Joseph Harding made his name as a conservative lawmaker by authoring and sponsoring Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits discussion of sexuality or ge… → Read More
Alex Jones says he won't be paying off those verdicts
Conspiracy theorist, huckster and carnival barker Alex Jones owes Sandy Hook parents some $1.4bn, so far, as largely uncontested libel verdicts rack up against him across the nation. He says he won… → Read More
Basketball star Brittney Griner released by Russia in swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout
Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout are going home. Griner, the U.S. basketball star arrested leaving Russia with vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage, was released today in a prisoner… → Read More
Theranos executive Sunny Balwani off to jail for 13 years
Sunny Balwani, the chief operating officer of Theranos and former lover of founder and fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, will join her in prison. He was today sentenced to 13 years inside for his part in… → Read More