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elections Elizabeth Warren's latest campaign plank is a national Right-to-Repair law for farm equipment Cory Doctorow

Business Whatsapp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850,000,000 when I quit Facebook Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

fake news Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

air travel Delta Airlines kicks man off plane for urgent need to use the restroom before takeoff Mark Frauenfelder

fake news Hillary Clinton’s a Russian spy, Jennifer Aniston’s sex swap shame, and own your own alien – in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

a.a. Milne Winnie the Pooh and Penguin, Too! Richard Kaufman

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happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek

News Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television is Set in the 80s Maureen Herman

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

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