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gender Saudi law now requires sending a text to women after their husbands secretly divorce them Cory Doctorow
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books "Amusing Ourselves to Death" was a 1985 wake-up call we didn't know we'd need forty years later Mark Frauenfelder
teacher leave them kids alone Parents are not just opting their children into ritual abuse, they are thanking the school for it Jason Weisberger
science fiction Philip K. Dick: "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" David Pescovitz
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late stage capitalism Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
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