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racism Facebook claims to be taking white supremacist violence more seriously, LMAO Xeni Jardin

infinite monkeys StoryAI, a bot that autocompletes a story for you Clive Thompson

politics A new AI tool from Adobe can detect Photoshopped faces Xeni Jardin

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eff More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective Cory Doctorow

ukpoli London councils plan to slash benefit payments with an "anti-fraud" system known to have a 20% failure rate Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants The Strandbeests of 2018 are from the very greatest of timelines Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

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happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

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iot Smart cities are as stupid as the people who make them Cory Doctorow

Science Algorithmic decision-making: an arms-race between entropy, programmers and referees Cory Doctorow

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