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cambodia The crypto scam behind those weird text messages Jennifer Sandlin

Entertainment Disney's rules for theme park influencers are hilariously ridiculous Ruben Bolling

music This song by George Harrison makes fun of the copyright infringement case he lost Ruben Bolling

Secret Slur-Vice Secret Service agents sent home after drunken assault in South Korea Mark Frauenfelder

food blogs Just the recipe: services hide life stories and popups from food blogs Annie Rauwerda

passings Tommy Kimball, RIP Mark Frauenfelder

Topless teens and palace intrigue in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Art and Design Waneella's fantasy Tokyo street scenes Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids The Queen's worst nightmare, Prince Andrew jailed, and Royal cosmetic surgery exposed in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

censorship UK's oldest ISP blames DoS attack on attempt to suppress human rights report about West Papua (read it now!) Cory Doctorow

Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow

democratic party Open primaries? Democratic establishment bars anyone who challenges an incumbent from using the party's Votebuilder database Cory Doctorow

NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

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