Pluralistic: The Lost Cause prologue (part 2) (07 Oct 2023)

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The Lost Cause prologue (part 2): It's a small world, after all.
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Pluralistic: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause" (06 Oct 2023)

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Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause": My novel of climate hope, out on November 14.
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Pluralistic: Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers (05 Oct 2023)

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Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers: When your pension fund comes for your job, your home, and your funeral.
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Pluralistic: For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices (04 Oct 2023)

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For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices: A long-overdue antitrust beatdown for Agri Stats.
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Pluralistic: Google's enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023)

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Google's enshittification memos: Truly, Big Tech can't stop telling on itself.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting the audiobook of The Lost Cause, my novel of environmental hope (02 Oct 2023)

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Kickstarting the audiobook of The Lost Cause, my novel of environmental hope: And another one that Amazon won't sell.
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How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship

No one’s gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can’t fire their workers.

A wrecked, listing, rusting tanker whose side is emblazoned with the menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ In the foreground, a woman dressed in a natty 1930s skirt-suit holds a WGA picket sign that reads, ‘I asked ChatGPT to write a sign and it SUCKED.’” — Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

After a grinding, 148-day strike, the Writers Guild of America ran the table, conceding virtually nothing and winning virtually everything.

The most consequential outcome will be data on streaming viewership. For the studios, these numbers are state secrets, revealed on a need-to-know, burn-before-reading basis, even within the studios themselves.

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