silent film High quality video of Chaplin's "A Day's Pleasure" (1919) Mark Frauenfelder

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Technology These are the first words ever heard in a feature film David Pescovitz

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder

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Copyfight Happy Public Domain Day 2020! Cory Doctorow

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books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

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books 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,' by Roger McNamee [BOOKS] Xeni Jardin

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