Boing Boing, May 09, 2025

Soviet space junk, robot rampages, and Trump's librarian purge

Adulterium in Dijs Punitum, etching after Johann Wilhelm Baur, (1700), The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, public domain.

Happy Friday! A Soviet Venus probe that's been orbiting Earth since 1972 comes crashing down today (with livestream!), while a humanoid robot goes hay…