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Boing Boing, May 05, 2025

Surveillance scandals, glowing glass corpses, and gamers getting gouged

Mark Frauenfelder
May 05, 2025
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A Eunuch's Dream, by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, (1874) Public Domain

Happy Monday! Today: An FCC commissioner threatens to silence CBS in a chilling attack on press freedom, while Xbox joins the $80 game club and cranks up hardware prices. Meanwhile, a bizarre 1903 patent proposed preserving the dead in transparent glass blocks (complete with suggestions for …

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