Pluralistic: 26 Jul 2022

Today's links

"A Half-Built Garden": Ruthanna Emrys's stunning First Contact novel.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 25 Jul 2022

Today's links

Why none of my books are available on Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home": A haunted house novel that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 14 Jun 2022

Today's links

Adventure Capitalism: A history of "Libertarian Exit" movements.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 07 Jun 2022

Today's links

James Bridle's "Ways of Being": Dispatches from the more than human world.
Fake Christian health insurance and other big cons: If you have to trick people into hearing your message, you are in a cult.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 05 Jun 2022

Today's links

The Big Box of Sparkly Unicorn Magic: If Hobbes was a snarky unicorn and Calvin was an awesome little girl.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 25 May 2022

Today's links

Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about "The High Sierra": An interview for Fatherly Magazine.
Kim Stanley Robinson's "The High Sierra": A love story.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2022

Today's links

How police backdoors for online services let sextortionists target children: There is no such thing as a back-door that only lets the good guys through.
Laura Jean McKay's "The Animals in That Country": A brilliant debut novel of too much understanding.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 25 Apr 2022

Today's links

Up Against It, an "essential," action-adventure sf tale of bureaucrats and colonizers: Laura J Mixon's fast-paced space-opera.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2022

Today's links

Ryan North's 'How to Take Over the World': Popular science as a series of supervillainous thought-experiments.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 12 Apr 2022

Today's links

Daniel Pinkwater's "Crazy in Poughkeepsie": Another Pinkwater masterpiece, in which we sojourn to whale heaven.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
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