Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok"; Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues (17 Apr 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok": My Medium column on a surveillance-free internet.
Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues: Meet Marty Hench and his "foolish and ungainly and luxurious tour bus."
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds" (21 Feb 2023)

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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country."
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Pluralistic: Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments" (14 Feb 2023)

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Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments": A seriously good look at some seriously bad arguments.
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Pluralistic: Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind" (06 Feb 2023)

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Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind": Thinking about tactics AND power.
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Pluralistic: The real scandal is overclassification; The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour (30 Jan 2023)

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The real scandal is overclassification: I'd explain it, but I'd have to kill you.
The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra (twice!).
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Pluralistic: Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant; Red Team Blues excerpt (27 Jan 2023)

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Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant: Walled gardens considered harmful (to performers and audiences).
Red Team Blues excerpt: The final adventure of Marty Hench.
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Pluralistic: David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment" (24 Jan 2023)

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David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment": The true, swashbuckling lives of matriarchs, anarchists, and pirates at the crossroads of the world.
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Pluralistic: Eleanor Janega's "Once and Future Sex" (17 Jan 2023)

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Eleanor Janega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex.
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Pluralistic: Kate Beaton's "Ducks" (14 Jan 2023)

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Kate Beaton's "Ducks": A memoir of oil, misogyny and economic precarity.
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Pluralistic: Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek' (11 Jan 2023)

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Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek': An English edition of a brilliant Egyptian alt history comic about a world where wishes are real.
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