Pluralistic: A weekend's worth of links (30 Aug 2025)


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Pluralistic: Proud to be a blockhead (21 Dec 2024)


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Pluralistic: Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots' (17 Sep 2024)


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Pluralistic: Against Lore (27 May 2024)


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Pluralistic: How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars (07 Sept 2023)


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Pluralistic: Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster (08 August 2023)


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Pluralistic: The art of Daniel Danger (23 July 2023)


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Pluralistic: Revenge of the Linkdumps (13 May 2023)


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Walking the Plank

You may never shake the fear, but you might change how you feel about it.

A pair of legs and feet traversing a plank, high over a city street. The street below has a hypnotic spiral. The feet are blurred. The plank has a subtle “Matrix Waterfall” effect worked into its grain. The end of the plank fades into nothingness.
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Richie’s Plank Experience is a terrifying VR game first released in 2016. In the game, the user rides up a simulated elevator to a rooftop that is 525 (simulated) feet above street level. Then, the user steps out on a (simulated) plank and walks out on it, over a vertiginous (simulated) drop.

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Doing the Work

How to Write When You Suck

A giant typewriter sculpture at Burning Man, with several people admiring and climbing on it.

I’m out on tour again, my first in-person book tour since 2019. I had four books come out during lockdown and “toured” them over Zoom, which was as good as many talented and dedicated publishing PR people, booksellers, and co-presenters could make it.

Now, after three years, I’m out on tour again. It’s an odd kind of tour, because it’s a different kind of book. Chokepoint Capitalism isn’t a novel from a Big Five publisher, it’s a nonfiction critique of monopolies and cartels. That includes the Big Five, which is why we went with an indie, the storied Beacon Press, praised by the likes of Albert Einstein and Howard Zinn for a publishing program that promotes progressive values.

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