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Inside: Good riddance to the Open Gaming License; John Deere's repair fake-out; and more!

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Good riddance to the Open Gaming License: Hasbro accidentally gives us more freedom.

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John Deere's repair fake-out: So many strings attached.

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Hey look at this

* A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects wired.com/story/sweepwiz…

* Watch a Cranky Marshall McLuhan Explain the Future of Ads and the Internet in 1966 paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/11… 4/

#20yrsago Ground broken on Hong Kong Disneyland news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-paci…

#10yrsago @quinnnorton on @AaronSw quinnnorton.com/said/?p=644

#10yrsago @lessig on the DoJ’s vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz lessig.tumblr.com/post/403474630… 5/

#10yrsago RIP, #AaronSwartz memex.craphound.com/2013/01/12/rip…

#5yrsago NERD HARDER! FBI Director reiterates faith-based belief in working crypto that he can break reuters.com/article/us-usa…

#5yrsago A brief history of how the rich world brutaDie Sister, Die! 6/

(1972) gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/706244714… and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to theintercept.com/2018/01/12/hai…

#5yrsago Scottish police confirm requests from world governments to find money laundered through “the UK’s homegrown secrecy vehicle” archive.news.stv.tv/politics/14060… 7/

#5yrsago UK tax authority, gutted by austerity and buried by Brexit, can’t deal with the crime revealed by the Paradise Papers theguardian.com/politics/2018/… 8/

Yesterday's threads: Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek'; and more!

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