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From Weekly Filet #136, in November 2013.

NSA Files Decoded

The Guardian

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Is The New

The Diagram

Steve Jobs’s Patents

The New York Times

First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

MIT Technology Review

A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!

Slate

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