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books New rare book catalogue features a Soviet Space Race picture book with backyard-built rocket Rebecca Romney

politics Count the "Easter Eggs" in the background of Elizabeth Warren's DNC speech last night David Pescovitz

Technology YouTube bans 6 channels for hate speech, white supremacists Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer among them Xeni Jardin

monopolism Share prices slide as DOJ announces sweeping antitrust investigations of Big Tech Cory Doctorow

Business Rumor: DoJ is going to investigate Google for antitrust violations Cory Doctorow

youtube Google and YouTube executives ignored warnings on toxic video content, now we're all paying the price Xeni Jardin

artificial intelligence Google's talking AI is indistinguishable from humans Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants See you tonight at Powell's, Portland! (then Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver…) (!) Cory Doctorow

politics U.S. internet giants ask Trump to support encryption, net neutrality, and reform domestic surveillance Xeni Jardin

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