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furby iFixit's Furby teardown is not for the faint of heart Gail Sherman

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jerks The artist who posted that horrible personal assistant ad was Tom Sachs, and now Nike has dumped him Mark Frauenfelder

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politics No drinking water "indefinitely" in Jackson, Mississippi Rob Beschizza

rpgs What's new in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

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makers Maker jargon and slang for 2021 Gareth Branwyn

treadmill NordicTrack customers hacked their treadmills to watch Netflix until the company blocked them Annie Rauwerda

tabloids Queen "kills" Andrew sex probe in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

slot machine Short 1964 film present the "Slot Machine Age" Mark Frauenfelder

dystopia Another Strugatsky masterpiece: The Inhabited Island Jason Weisberger

police In Portlandia, police confiscated chickpeas and White Claw Thom Dunn

late stage capitalism Winners Take All: the Davos Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney philanthropy) Cory Doctorow

Business Sears chairman Eddie Lampert submits new $5 billion bid to save doomed retailer Xeni Jardin

right to repair California Farm Bureau sells out farmers, hands John Deere a monopoly over tractor repair Cory Doctorow

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Copyfight EFF to US Copyright Office: fix the DRM rules that stop us from fixing our stuff, make fair use, and make IoT gadgets work the way we want Cory Doctorow

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