Pluralistic: California to smash prison e-profiteers (08 May 2023)


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Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm

Marcus Yallow + 50 Years = Marty Hench?

The “Marty Hench” figure from the cover of Red Team Blues, next to the “M1k3y” figure (with large, binary-digit-lined red “X”) from the cover of Little Brother.

The old crow is getting slow;

the young crow is not.

Of what the young crow does not know,

the old crow knows a lot.

At knowing things,

the old crow is still the young crow’s master.

What does the old crow not know?

How to go faster.

The young crow flies above, below,

and rings around the slow old crow.

What does the fast young crow not know?

WHERE TO GO.

-John Ciardi, About Crows


Marcus Yallow is the 17-year-old hero of Little Brother, my 2008 novel about kids in San Francisco who wage high-tech guerrilla war on the Department of Homeland Security, who occupy the city after a terrorist attack.
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Pluralistic: Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America; On the Media on the enshittification (pt 1) (06 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk (05 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: Ostromizing democracy (04 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point (03 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: Oops! All linkdump! (02 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: When you hear "fintech," think "unlicensed bank" (01 May 2023)


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