Today's links
- Bubble: Fantastic graphic novel adaptation of the brilliant comedy/sf podcast.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: books
Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Machine learning's crumbling foundations: Doing 'data science' with bad data.
- Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Sandman Slim's final adventure: King Bullet brings in Richard Kadrey's masterpiece for a hell of a landing.
- Big Oil caught lying about methane: 84 times worse than CO2.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Self-publishing
The hard problem of politics, religion, advertising and literature
Publishing is doing great
Publishing is doing great. Despite panic at the start of the lockdown, book sales were actually up during lockdown, as people turned to books to pass the time, joining online bookclubs and finding ways to support their local indie booksellers.
But authorship? Not so great.
Pluralistic: 01 Jul 2021
Today's links
- When the Sparrow Falls: Neil Sharpson's dystopian tale of an anti-AI hermit kingdom.
- Exxon lobbyist confesses to his crimes: Keith McCoy thought he was talking to an executive recruiter.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 09 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
- Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
- Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
- Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 May 2021
Today's links
- Crooked Timber's Ministry for the Future Seminar: It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 May 2021
Today's links
- Cyclopedia Exotica: Aminder Dhaliwal's cryptid history of our one-eyed cousins.
- Let's eat all the cicadas: Harnessing the paperclip machine for good?
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).
- Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."
- Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.
- Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.
- Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.
- This day in history: 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading