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coronavirus Crowd-sourced film 'A Social Distance' shows life in lockdown from people around the globe Rusty Blazenhoff

History If you loved HBO’s "The Deuce," The Rialto Report will leave you spellbound Matt Maranian

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los angeles Hollywood assistants are the latest group to come together, share their salaries, and demand better working conditions Thom Dunn

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

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