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animation Interview: legendary Japanese director Mamoru Oshii Devin Nealy

AI Marshall McLuhan predicts ChatGPT in 1966 Mark Frauenfelder

music Check out this interview with multi-instrumentalist rapper Connor Musarra Devin Nealy

cool tools Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain's four favorite tools Mark Frauenfelder

noads Channeling Timothy Leary on the Centennial of his Birth, October 22, 2020 Boing Boing

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

brexit Britons disappointed by post-Brexit passports not actually being blue Rob Beschizza

biology How do trees talk to each other? David Pescovitz

art Beautiful artwork plays the UNIX timestamp on cymbals David Pescovitz

politics Clay Shirky: social media turned Dems, GOP into host organisms for third party candidates Cory Doctorow

Delightful Creatures How to make your own cat scratching posts Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Digital tools have a mind of their own: yours Clive Thompson

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