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Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo

David Pescovitz at 6:52 am Thu, Aug 16, 2012

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David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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