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Science Trump administration drafts legal pact for mining the moon Xeni Jardin

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surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The worst possible version of the EU Copyright Directive has sparked a German uprising Cory Doctorow

Business Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu Gina Loukareas

Food Court strikes down Iowa's unconstitutional ag-gag law Cory Doctorow

artificial intelligence Forbes is developing AI that writes first drafts of articles Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight The EU took the word "filters" out of the Copyright Directive, but it's still all about filters Cory Doctorow

politics Texas board of education tries to erase Hillary Clinton from history Gina Loukareas

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

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art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

religion Republicans were so eager to pass the #TaxScam that they didn't notice they were taxing the churches they depend on Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Street style photographer Bill Cunningham left behind a secret memoir Rusty Blazenhoff