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kickstarter Jane Metcalfe, co-founder NEO.LIFE, has a cool upcoming book Mark Frauenfelder

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charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

books What do reverse cyborgs want? A review of David Marusek's Glassing the Orgachine Eric Heyne

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2018 Boing Boing

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

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happy mutants EFF has released STARTTLS Everywhere: free tools to encrypt email between mail servers Cory Doctorow

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