Pluralistic: Ray Nayler's "Where the Axe Is Buried" (20 Mar 2025)

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Ray Nayler's "Where the Axe Is Buried": Escape from the Larry Ellison future.
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Pluralistic: David Enrich's "Murder the Truth" (17 Mar 2025)

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David Enrich's "Murder the Truth": Making powerful people look bad isn't a crime – yet.
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Pluralistic: Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster" (11 Mar 2025)

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Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster": Klong! We are ALL pickles.
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Pluralistic: Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door" (10 Feb 2025)

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Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door": A graphic memoir.
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour (06 Feb 2025)

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Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour: There's a nonzero chance that you and I will shortly be in the same city!
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Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 Feb 2025)

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MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing: In the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.
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Pluralistic: Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows" (04 Feb 2025)

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Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows": How Citizen Lab invented "counterintelligence for civil society."
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification (07 Jan 2025)

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Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification: A crime thriller of pyramid schemes, faith scams, weird PCs, Reaganomics, punk rock, and San Francisco during the AIDS crisis (and Amazon won't sell it!).
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Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2024 (02 Dec 2024)

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All the books I reviewed in 2024: Plus three of my own.
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Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024)

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Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power.
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