Pluralistic: Portraits of Queen West (13 Sept 2023)

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Portraits of Queen West: Kevin Steele's "sequential art" book of the glory days of Queen Street West.
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Pluralistic: The Tamakis' "Roaming" (11 Sep 2023)

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The Tamakis' "Roaming": Ah, to be young and Canadian in New York City.
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Pluralistic: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)

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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder.
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Pluralistic: How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars (07 Sept 2023)

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How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars: My September column in Locus Magazine.
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Pluralistic: NLRB rules that any union busting triggers automatic union recognition (06 Sept 2023)

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NLRB rules that any union busting means automatic union recognition: Biden's photocopier-kickers will give American workers the unions they desperately desire.
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Pluralistic: Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (05 September 2023)

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Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger": On late capitalism's double-vision and double trouble.
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Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023)

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How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth: The carrot is charitable giving, the stick is SLAPP suits and cyberweapons.
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Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn't (23 August 2023)

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Supervised AI isn't: Automation blindness can't be automated away.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Enshitternet" (22 August 2023)

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Podcasting "Enshitternet": The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet.
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Pluralistic: SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules (19 August 2023)

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SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules: And then fraudulently billed it all to their customers.
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