Boing Boing, May 20, 2026

Trump meme arrest costs sheriff's taxpayers $835,000

Happy Wednesday! A retired Tennessee officer who spent 37 days in jail for sharing a Trump meme just won $835,000 from the office of the sheriff who arrested him. Also today: the Connecticut village whose underground rumbles inspired H.P. Lovecraft, a one-launcher virtual museum of 570 operating systems going back to 1948, and the DOJ quietly handing Tr…