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UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

happy mutants Check out Money Mark's fantastic daily musical experiments! David Pescovitz

installation art Minimum Wage Machine dispenses free money at the simple turn of a crank Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Megxit Explodes – Who’s to blame? in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow

web theory The far right is dominating the information wars through "keyword signaling" Cory Doctorow

Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow

open source 3D printing stethoscopes, tourniquets and crucial dialysis-machine parts in Gaza Clive Thompson

News Google hit with demands for detailed ad business info from Texas and other states Xeni Jardin

elections Clown Car 2.0: Matt Taibbi on the Democratic nomination race Cory Doctorow

happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow

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eff The European Copyright Directive: What is it, and why has it drawn more controversy than any other Directive in EU history? Cory Doctorow

silicon valley The best quote from Aminatou Sow's interview in The Cut is about Elizabeth Holmes's "fake blood machine" Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

unconscious intelligence This AI is so good at writing fake news stories the developer doesn't want to release the code Mark Frauenfelder

Games Looks like the Deepmind Starcraft AI relied on superhuman speed after all Rob Beschizza