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Cory Doctorow
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Inside: AI's pogo-stick grift; and more!

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A kid bouncing on a pogo-stick in front of a giant, onrushing vintage black sedan, with the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' behind the wheel. The background is a fiery, smoky hellscape.

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