Copyfight Chicago's 'Aloha Poke Co' wants Hawaiians to stop using the words 'aloha' and 'poke' Cory Doctorow

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scholarship Voice assistants suck, but they suck worse if you have an "accent" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Rockstar: a programming language whose code takes the form of power ballads Cory Doctorow

religion Google Translate's deep dream: some translation requests yield weird religious prophesies Cory Doctorow

drugs Smoke some shoes? The DEA's list of slang terms for cannabis David Pescovitz

trump Browser extension to fix the NYT's squeamishness about calling Trump a liar Cory Doctorow

language Cockygate defeated: judge finds "Cocky" trademark for romance titles unenforceable Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Dank Learning: teaching a machine learning algorithm to generate memes Cory Doctorow

language Bayer and Monsanto merge into a new company called "Bayer" because Nazis have a better reputation than Big Ag Cory Doctorow

science fiction A glossary of Franken-words Cory Doctorow

happy mutants All Rights Reserved: a YA dystopia where every word is copyrighted Cory Doctorow

infosec Jargon watch: smishing and vishing Cory Doctorow

happy mutants An ice-cream maker tries to figure out what AI ice-cream flavors derived from metal band-names would taste like Cory Doctorow

music How Amazonian drum communication sounds (and acts) like human speech David Pescovitz

Weird The story of Don the talking dog David Pescovitz

Culture People from 70 countries imitate the sounds cats and dogs make Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Goob: a notional paltrovian newage woozine generated by Botnik's AI Cory Doctorow

Funny "Ass" is the most complicated word in the English language Andrea James

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