Pluralistic: Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth" (27 May 2023)

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Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth": Swords, sorcery and swooning romance, in a series that is tantalyzingly close to completion.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy (29 Mar 2023)

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk" (20 Mar 2023)

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Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2018, 2013
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Pluralistic: 09 Apr 2022

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John M Ford's "Aspects": An unfinished masterpiece by a legend of science fiction and fantasy.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 19 Oct 2021

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The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin: It's a feature, not a bug.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2020

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Witch: Kill Bill meets Thomas Hardy.
Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast: Imagining the first days of a better world.
Private equity's profitable murder: Leonard Green, Prospect Medical Holdings, and the vast fortunes built on the dead.
The Years of Repair: A Message From the Future (II).
Block Google-Fitbit: A merger made in hell.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 30 May 2020

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Australia caves on "robodebt": Dialing down the automated performative cruelty by a single notch.
Locus Award shortlist: Some of my 2019 favorites made the cut.
Why I haven't written about CDA 230: Life is too short.
Bus drivers refuse to take arrested protesters to jail: And they're unionized, so they don't have to.
AI has been stagnating for a decade: "The high-water mark was set in 2009."
This day in history: 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 14 Apr 2020

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Podcast swap with Wil Wheaton: Wil and I read each others' work in our podcasts this week.
Corona-denying pastor dies of coronavirus: Governments who depend on the religious right have a conflict of interest.
Ticketmaster ends refunds for canceled events: Ever wonder what "terms subject to change without notice" really means?
Amazon fires tech workers for their warehouse worker solidarity: Threatened for speaking out on climate, fired for speaking out on warehouse conditions.
Southern states in for worst of coronavirus impact: The white gerontocracy has engineered a perfect pandemic storm.
Abolish Silicon Valley: Wendy Liu's new memoir is a case-study from the tech worker uprising.
I'm doing Podapalooza! It's a pay-what-you-can onlin podcast festival with proceeds to Give Directly.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
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