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drugs A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic Cory Doctorow

fraud How the patent office's lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed to defraud investors and patients Cory Doctorow

AI Babysitter vetting and voice-analysis: Have we reached peak AI snakeoil? Cory Doctorow

racism Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure Cory Doctorow

Business Dystopia watch: American schools are installing anti-shooter smoke cannons and bulletproof doors Cory Doctorow

Coffee Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to squirt coffee up your asshole using this $135 glass jar Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Bloomberg: Middle-class Americans were "fleeced" by neoliberalism Cory Doctorow

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media Frozen zombie killers coming to life, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

happy mutants The Attention Merchants: a deep dive into the origins of the surveillance economy Cory Doctorow

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media Psychic breakthrough could save your life, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

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