Pluralistic: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause" (06 Oct 2023)

Today's links

Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause": My novel of climate hope, out on November 14.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it: "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" comes out from Verso on Sept 5.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive): The only part of "Chokepoint Capitalism" available on Audible.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017
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Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook: We wrote a book that Amazon won't sell.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI: Turkers all the way down.
Gorgeous, slipcased editions of public domain classics: Dave McKean's Crime and Punishment.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Laura Poitras fired from First Look: She says it's because she spoke out on Reality Winner.
Kickstarting a pad of "Tiny Paper Dungeons": Procedural paper adventures for your pocket.
Facebook says it's the best henhouse fox: Only we can stop Qanon.
I was investigated by the FBI: It took 20 years!
Yugoslavia's Cold War obsession with Mexican music: Nonaligned Yumex gave us Celovečernji the Kid.
Machine learning is a honeypot for phrenologists: "AI" researchers just can't put away the fucking calipers.
Disneyland kills annual passes: No more Disney at a stroll.
Tesla's valuation is 1600x its profitability: Finacialization, in green and white.
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
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Ohio spends tax dollars to destroy Ohio: Kroger's state subsidies funnelled to "ghost kitchens."
Diving bell drawings: Pictures of the deep, drawn in a mid-19th C submersible.
Distanced stage plays: The first online arts centre in the English-speaking world.
Double your EFF donation: Up to $319,000 in donations matching.
Emotional deck: Crowdfunding the Becoming Dragon deck.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Uber for evicting people: Civvl, a gig economy company, will pay you to evict people.
Part 15 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Returning to my serialized podcast reading.
Facebook threatens to leave EU: It wants to export Europeans' data to the USA…or else.
Brick House: Kickstarting an independent, "wolf-proof" media co-op.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2109
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Attack Surface a la carte: Kickstarter is not a shopping cart.
Kapital! The board game: France's new national obsession.
Private equity's new debt-and-loot bonanza: "Divi recaps" is plute for "stealing."
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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