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apple Apple doesn't want you to see where its electricity comes from Séamus Bellamy

fitness 82 year-old grandmother smashes abdominal plank record Gail Sherman

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politics In UK election campaign, Nigel Farage lasted nearly a week without saying anything racist about the Prime Minister Rob Beschizza

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law Julian Assange dragged from Ecuador's embassy in London and arrested Rob Beschizza

happy mutants False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of copyright filters in an Article 13 Europe Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The GDPR might actually create an "attention economy" Cory Doctorow

class war Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened Cory Doctorow

crime Sweden drops Assange rape investigation Rob Beschizza

Science NASA telescopes spot clues for how Giant Black Holes formed so quickly Xeni Jardin

ghosts eBay's marketplace of "haunted" crap David Pescovitz

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