politics Billionaire tech VC Vinod Khosla owns the very tides, sea, sands (or so he claims) Xeni Jardin
happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff
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google The army of contractor-linguists who power Google Assistant say they had their wages stolen Cory Doctorow
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Science "How to take a picture of a black hole," a 2017 TED talk by grad student Katie Bouman who then helped make it happen David Pescovitz
Business After #MeToo, whole industries have been blacklisted by insurers for sexual harassment liability coverage Cory Doctorow
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