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podcasts The Life Cycle podcast discusses the future of freedom with Lawrence Lessig Mark Frauenfelder
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security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
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science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow
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