Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza is a British-American writer, artist and journalist, the editor of the Weblog Award-winning culture website Boing Boing and the founder of txt.fyi, a publishing platform described by Wired Magazine as an example of "antisocial media." His works include minimalist video games, short stories and generative software that produces psychedelic art, wine descriptions, and journalistic euphemisms, among other subjects. Beschizza has appeared as a news commentator on television networks including NBC, CNN and Al Jazeera.Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 2015.In 2014, Beschizza produced an unauthorized edit of David Lynch's 1984 motion picture Dune with the dialogue systematically removed, which was itself taken down after a copyright claim.In 2017, Ars Technica reported that web domains containing Beschizza's name, among others, were being squatted by former pharmaceutical executive and convicted felon Martin Shkreli, who demanded and was refused $12,000 for their releas