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happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow
scholarship How an influential economics paper used imaginary environmental overregulation to spur low-density luxury housing Cory Doctorow
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