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bitcoin Bitcoin is the sewer rat of currencies Mark Frauenfelder

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Space Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab David Pescovitz

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Gadgets Rad Power ebikes might be the future of commuting Boing Boing's Shop

climate Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement Cory Doctorow

police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow

History Our olfactory heritage: researcher preserves scents before they're lost forever David Pescovitz

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

climate change Humanity isn't likely to extinguish itself, writes SETI scientist David Pescovitz

futurism Jane McGonigal and Institute for the Future: Free online course "How To Think Like a Futurist" David Pescovitz

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Disinfotainment Why is Twitter's takedown of accounts spreading disinformation from China such a big deal? Mark Frauenfelder

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