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COVID-19 Trump's 50-point plan for a second-term is impressively hollow and meaningless. Thom Dunn

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

News Yet another Chinese woman arrested for trespassing at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Xeni Jardin

picks Watch Teller almost get SHOCKED by dangerous jugglers The Passing Zone, on 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us!' Xeni Jardin

happy mutants SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects Cory Doctorow

Business Felony Contempt of Business Model: Lexmark's anti-competitive legacy Cory Doctorow

books Winners Take All: Modern philanthropy means that giving some away is more important than how you got it Cory Doctorow

Games Game review: Battletech Séamus Bellamy

education Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide Cory Doctorow

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