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art Studio Ghibli released magnificent free backgrounds for videoconferencing David Pescovitz

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happy mutants O'Reilly's holding a security conference in NYC, Oct 30-Nov 2 Cory Doctorow

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videos US State Department press corps grill Brexit Boris over his "lies" and "insults" Cory Doctorow

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Business America's prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling Cory Doctorow

law Chinese opsec funnies: your foreign boyfriend is a western spy! Cory Doctorow

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