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politics Bolton book says House impeachment inquiry should have probed Trump beyond Ukraine Xeni Jardin

art Sculptor creates the world's tiniest chess set, the size of a thumbtack David Pescovitz

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Business UPDATED: Airlines canceling China flights over Wuhan coronavirus outbreak Xeni Jardin

dogs UPS Dogs is an Instagram account where drivers share photos of dogs they meet on their routes John Struan

cooking tips The importance of turkey-frying situational awarness Rob Beschizza

Food Sunset magazine suggests dosing your family with cannabis gravy at Thanksgiving Rusty Blazenhoff

Disney The case for breaking up Disney Cory Doctorow

class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow

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censorship Tiktok's internal policies are both weird and terrible Cory Doctorow

Business Piketty on the "Brahmin left" and the "merchant right" Cory Doctorow

#Khashoggi Mini documentary about how Jamal Khashoggi was murdered Rob Beschizza

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artificial intelligence Why didn't OpenAI release the "Unicorn" version of its AI storytelling software? Mark Frauenfelder

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow

elections Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets Cory Doctorow

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