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Science Squids used to have shells. Here's how they lost them. Andrea James

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anxiety A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety Thom Dunn

corruption The internet has become a "low-trust society" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Blame authors' fortunes on monopolism, not university professors, booksellers and librarians — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

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Business UK railway arches, the last bastion of publicly owned commercial space, engines of small business, about to be killed by privatization Cory Doctorow

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infosec 139 pieces of (seemingly nonfunctional) malware that exploit Spectre and Meltdown are now circulating in the wild Cory Doctorow

Business OK, panic again: patching Spectre and Meltdown has been a disaster Cory Doctorow

makers I made my own ink for the apocalypse Meg Elison

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