This week's threads:

• Let's Encrypt announces its launch schedule, so soon everyone can have web servers with encrypted transmissions;
• Ploys by businesses to get you to come into the office, if you work at a place where coming into an office is optional; and
• A summary of Open Repositories 2015 …

In this week's threads: a protest -- or maybe just an art project -- by a reader who saves his e-book copy of Orwell's 1984 by photocopying each page from his Kindle, the "AutoAwesome" nature of artificial intelligence, and a call to action for libraries to implement encryption on their websites.

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