Pluralistic: The Lost Cause prologue (part 2) (07 Oct 2023)

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The Lost Cause prologue (part 2): It's a small world, after all.
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Pluralistic: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause" (06 Oct 2023)

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Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause": My novel of climate hope, out on November 14.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: The internet is not a (link)dump truck (30 Sept 2023)

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The internet is not a (link)dump truck: It's a series of totally tubular links.
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Pluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?" (28 Sep 2023)

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Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?": Socialism or barbarism.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Brian Merchant's "Blood In the Machine" (26 Sep 2023)

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Brian Merchant's "Blood In the Machine": Reclaiming the Luddites from the victors' history.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" (20 Sept 2023)

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Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us": A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You" (19 Sep 2023)

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Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You": Black horror that cuts with a surgical scalpel.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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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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