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law Judge reassigned after complaint he called black juror "Aunt Jemima" Rob Beschizza

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Business Creative Adversarial Networks: GANs that make art Cory Doctorow

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Business Trump picks former oil lobbyist David Bernhardt to run U.S. Interior Department Xeni Jardin

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fake news Brad Pitt tells all, Prince Charles divorces, and JonBenet Ramsey’s murder solved, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

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