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music Sony: OK, OK, we don't own Bach Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants In 1956, Hugh Hefner gave MAD's founding editor an unlimited budget for a new satire magazine called "TRUMP" Cory Doctorow

music SXSW will remove contractual immigration threats for international artists who play the show Cory Doctorow

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Copyfight Class action: publishers paid writers "sale" royalties on ebooks whose fine-print says they're "licensed" Cory Doctorow

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psychology How to become better at smelling and avoiding the many varieties of bullshit David McRaney

books Interview: Joëlle Jones, the artist behind Lady Killer Heather Johanssen

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