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censorship Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow

biology Check out this 480 million-year-old conga line of arthropods David Pescovitz

gun violence Washington is finally starting to do something about gun violence, just not about mass shootings Thom Dunn

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books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

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computer science DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow

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politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

privacy Standard Notes: free, open, cross-platform, encrypted, eternal note-taking app Cory Doctorow

books The ethics of wiping out a mosquito species Christopher Preston

happy mutants Joi Ito's dissertation, The Practice of Change: using networks, not markets, to solve problems Cory Doctorow

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Kids AI finds solutions its creators didn't anticipate Andrea James

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