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books The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the "deep state" is just nerds versus grifters Cory Doctorow
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security theater Senate staffers issued ID cards whose "security chips" turn out to be just pictures of a chip Cory Doctorow
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Space Astronaut on space station captures astonishing image of massive skull peering up from volcanic pit on Earth David Pescovitz
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