Pluralistic: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts" (2 Jul 2025)

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Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts": A phantasmagorical memoir of intergenerational trauma and reconciliation.
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How much (little) are the AI companies making?: Ed Zitron does the math.
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Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity: Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops.
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Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks': The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy.
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What's a "public internet?": You don't want Nigel Farage moderating your social media, right?
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Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth: From each according his ability (to pay).
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The case for a Canadian wealth tax: Lessons learned from previous attempts, applicable all over the world.
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Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers': Far more than production gossip – an unmissable portrait of a turning point in American comedy and music.
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Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine: Karma for Unitedhealthcare, Part II.
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