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economics How markets plundered Free Software's best stuff and used it to create freedom for companies, not people Cory Doctorow

politics Universal health care is "free stuff" as in "freedom" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Crowdfunding powerful open hardware that is truly open and respectful of your rights Cory Doctorow

floss Switching to Linux, saying goodbye to Apple and Microsoft Cory Doctorow

politics 'We did more than France': Trump mocks our WWII allies Jason Weisberger

politics 3 Yale professors explain why they're leaving America before it's too late (Video) Ellsworth Toohey

free music Moby relaunches free music library for creatives, with 500 new tracks Jennifer Sandlin

politics Watch MAGA supporters struggle to explain religious freedom at NRA convention Grant St. Clair

music R.E.M. releases remix of its song "Radio Free Europe" in support of Radio Free Europe Ruben Bolling

education The only technique to learn something new James Altucher

politics Trump solves toy shortage by telling children to want fewer toys Ellsworth Toohey

politics The influential Signal chatrooms where tech billionaires and their courtiers swung far-right Rob Beschizza

sleep "Revenge bedtime procrastination" is your brain's way of screaming for help (video) Popkin

civil rights DHS to US citizen: Sorry you were born here, leave anyway Ellsworth Toohey

human rights Trump expands offshore detention program, now including Rwanda Ellsworth Toohey

public health Got contamination? FDA skips milk safety tests after Elon fires 20,000 Health and Human Services employees Ellsworth Toohey

politics Cyprus launches exciting new journalist surveillance program Ellsworth Toohey

france 200 years ago, France forced Haiti to pay $44 billion for daring to free themselves from slavery Ellsworth Toohey

death America's rich die sooner than Europe's poor Séamus Bellamy