Pluralistic: The REAL AI automation threat to workers (11 Jan 2024)

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The real AI automation threat to workers: The robot can't replace you, but it CAN replace your shitty boss.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (10 Jan 2024)

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Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues: Another Wil Wheaton banger, necessitated by Amazon's perfidy.
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Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" (09 Jan 2024)

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars": Life in space sucks, is grotesquely expensive, and produces little useful science.
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Pluralistic: Molly McGhee's "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind" (08 Jan 2024)

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Molly McGhee's "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind": A haunting novel of debt, work, dreams, and the capitalist nightmare.
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Pluralistic: A year in illustration, 2023 edition (21 Dec 2023)

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A year in illustration, 2023 edition: I amuse myself, at least.
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Pluralistic: 2024's public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2023)

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2024's public domain is a banger: How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Pluralistic: What kind of bubble is AI? (19 Dec 2023)

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What kind of bubble is AI?: My latest column for Locus Magazine.
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Pluralistic: Debbie Urbanski's 'After World' (18 Dec 2023)

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Debbie Urbanski's 'After World': An unflinching, bleak, vivid tale of humanity's final days.
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Pluralistic: Linkdump Minkchump (16 Dec 2023)

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Linkdump Minkchump: A thoroughly assorted Saturday.
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Pluralistic: It all started with a mouse (15 Dec 2023)

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It all started with a mouse: A masterclass on the public domain, fair use and trademark.
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