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art Guy turns Precious Moments into "Precious Mutations" Rusty Blazenhoff

media WordPress owners buy Tumblr (Update: for "less than $3m") Rob Beschizza

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web Tumblr bans all adult content, such as "female-presenting nipples" Rob Beschizza

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mistakes Code recreates Pfizer's 1956 effort to procedurally generate drug names Rob Beschizza

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politics Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, 50+ more firms tell Trump to leave trans people alone Xeni Jardin

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