Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow

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politics Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone Cory Doctorow

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Comic Books Talking The Rough Pearl with Xeric Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Kevin Mutch Jeffery Klaehn

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

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politics SDNY may charge Trump-Giuliani crony Lev Parnas over 'Fraud Guarantee' Xeni Jardin

contagion FDA warns Purell to back off hand sanitizer germ-killing claims Rob Beschizza

twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow

security In Cambridge Analytica clean-up, Facebook says it killed 'Tens of Thousands' of apps Xeni Jardin

trump Trump asks Congress to permanently reauthorize NSA's expiring power to access domestic call records Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The Past and Future of The Internet: A Symposium for John Perry Barlow Cory Doctorow

law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Canadian government has released the surprisingly sensible results of its extensive, year-long review of copyright law Michael Geist

politics Ex-NSA American mercenaries for UAE used 'Karma' to hack journalists and human rights activists Xeni Jardin

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin