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Drugs Without the Hot Air: the best book I've ever read on drugs and drug policy, in an expanded new edition Cory Doctorow

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surveillance A comprehensive guide to corporate online surveillance in everyday life Cory Doctorow

Business The Trump-funding, democracy-denying, Gawker-destroying Peter Thiel is finally no longer involved with Y Combinator Cory Doctorow

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books The best young adult literature from 1967 Joshua Glenn

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fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

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How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks Glenn Fleishman

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