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kickstarter Jane Metcalfe, co-founder NEO.LIFE, has a cool upcoming book Mark Frauenfelder

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fake news Queen in drunken brawl, Prince Harry’s hell, and Meghan Markle’s secrets, in this week’s dubious Royal tabloids Peter Sheridan

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music You can buy Sonic Youth's old music gear and records David Pescovitz

horror Stephen King's 1986 directorial debut 'Maximum Overdrive' is still tons of fun Jason Weisberger

happy mutants The Cyberdeck: a homebrew, 3D printed cyberspace deck Cory Doctorow

movies Scarlett Johansson will no longer play a transgender man in her next film Andrea James

dinosaurs 10 things you’ll be surprised to learn about dinosaurs Mark Frauenfelder

law Eviction Lab: a comprehensive database of every eviction proceeding in America for the past 16 years Cory Doctorow

usausausa Majority of Democrats now hold favorable views of mass-murdering simpleton George W Bush Cory Doctorow

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