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Nintendo A review of Animal Crossing by someone who hates it Mark Frauenfelder

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nest Mattress shopping with a bad back Jason Weisberger

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happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

novels Review: "The Nobody People" is like a literary X-Men novel for the Trump era Thom Dunn

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tumblr A year after banning "female-presenting nipples", Tumblr is much-diminished but still alive Rob Beschizza

tabletop games What's new in tabletop gaming (Indie edition) Gareth Branwyn

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law Creating a "coercion resistant" communications system Cory Doctorow

books Notpetya: the incredible story of an escaped US cyberweapon, Russian state hackers, and Ukraine's cyberwar Cory Doctorow

trump Facial recognition: Amazon adds 'fear' to range of emotions Rekognition can detect Xeni Jardin