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elections Bloomberg's $34m presidential campaign ad-buy is 1.1% of the taxes Bernie, Warren and Steyer want him to pay Cory Doctorow

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computer science What would a "counterculture of AI" look like? Cory Doctorow

movies Review: Bright (2017) Rob Beschizza

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