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Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
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Instagram's slow-mo appeals court: A nanosecond to block, 28 months to review.

DOD lie-detector manual leaked: How credible is the National Center for Credibility Assessment?

Farewell to Beyond the Beyond: Wired retires Bruce Sterling's blog, and he has thoughts.

Neoliberals won't waste this crisis: When the left abandoned leninism, the right swiped it.

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