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This brown leaf is actually a butterfly Mark Frauenfelder

music THE BUREAU: Part Nine, "Your Sandwich Speaks!" — with SBaGen-based Digital Drugs for New Year's Eve Ethan Persoff

fashion Purfume fad: smell like burning or decomposing vegetation Rob Beschizza

music New anthology of Michele Mercure's 80s synth music from the cassette underground David Pescovitz

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happy mutants Robin "Sourdough" Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel Cory Doctorow

fake news This week’s tabloids: They’re not lies. They’re just Trumpian thinking Peter Sheridan

Science A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow

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