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crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror "exquisite corpse" text adventure that's a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead Cory Doctorow

Business Uber forces its drivers to arbitrate, rather than sue, but Uber also won't arbitrate Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

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privacy The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers' attention and wifi data for £322m Cory Doctorow

poetry Hawk Moon: Sam Shepard’s Forgotten First Book Mark Dery

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History "Why I Hate My Uncle," by William Hitler (Look magazine, 1939) Mark Frauenfelder

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