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Business As COVID-19 surges, Apple re-closes 11 stores temporarily in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina Xeni Jardin

Business Bloomberg and Trump to buy competing $10 million Super Bowl ads Xeni Jardin

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Copyfight Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules Cory Doctorow

travel What it's like to take a vacation in Singapore's Changi Airport Mark Frauenfelder

elections AOC really plays in Iowa Cory Doctorow

happy mutants On Fire: Naomi Klein's book is a time-series of the shift from climate denial to nihilism to Green New Deal hope Cory Doctorow

Not Great FOOTAGE: Explosion at remote Siberian military base Rob Beschizza

youtube YouTube pushes children's videos to pedophiles through content recommendation engine Xeni Jardin

Science The Reality Bubble: how humanity's collective blindspots render us incapable of seeing danger until it's too late (and what to do about it) Cory Doctorow

fox Fox News was always partisan, but now it is rudderless and "anti-democratic" Cory Doctorow

trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Germans Can Help Save the Internet from the Copyright Directive! Cory Doctorow

scents Why men's body washes all smell the same Mark Frauenfelder

elections The GOP stole Wisconsin; now they're trying to steal it again on the way out — PROTEST TODAY! Cory Doctorow

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

News 'AN ACT OF TERROR' — Packages sent to 7+ targets, CNN, Obamas, Clintons, Soros, Cuomo, Holder, Maxine Waters Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Puerto Rico didn't suffer a "natural disaster": it was looted and starved long before the hurricanes Cory Doctorow