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high school Japanese exchange student shares thoughts on high school's mushroom cloud mascot Mark Frauenfelder
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books 92-year-old's memoir tells the forgotten story of a German official who sabotaged Nazi deportations and saved more Jews than Schindler Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance Cory Doctorow
excessive punishment A 21-year-old who overslept and missed jury duty was given 10 days in jail Mark Frauenfelder
law Affluent parents surrender custody of their kids to "scam" their way into needs-based college scholarships Cory Doctorow
AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow
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