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Shop — Ruby Pilven
https://www.rubypilven.com/shop
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Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723828/buried-deep-and-other-stories-by-naomi-novik/
A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a...
Ian Gent's Blog: The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men
https://blog.ian.gent/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html
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You Don't Have to Monetize The Things You Love
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/
My office is overrun with indie comics. Small press runs, hand-stapled zines, hardbound collections, beautifully risographed art books from creators who might never make another comic again. I buy them at small conventions, from Gumroad pages, from artists’ websites, and through Instagram DMs. Each represents a moment in time, a
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Broken
favorite books i read in 2024: challenger
https://www.yatima.org/archives/2024/12/26/favorite-books-i-read-in-2024-challenger/
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No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows-how-this-will-end-but-i-do-not-think-it-will-end-well-for-them/
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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Blind and Sighted People Understand Color Similarly - Arts & Sciences Magazine
https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2021/10/blind-and-sighted-people-understand-color-similarly/
Krieger School researchers have found that like any sighted person, those born blind understand two bananas are likely to be the same color and why.
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Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-population-crisis/
Tesla’s outspoken CEO thinks the biggest threat facing the planet is people not having enough babies. Demographers disagree.
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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) – Eruditorum Press
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cuddled-little-vice-sandman
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a magical one with Grant Morrison. That story continues in Book Three. This, meanwhile, is a new epilogue
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, by Zeke Faux
https://zekefaux.com/
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The Banality of Zionism
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality-of-zionism/
Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.
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Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age: The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man
https://www.smh.com.au/national/faster-than-usain-bolt-at-the-same-age-the-ipswich-schoolboy-turned-6-million-man-20250116-p5l4xq.html
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind, by Dan Davies
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9781788169547
Population projections are shaping conversations about having kids and climate change. But how do they really work? | Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/396708/world-us-population-projections-estimates-2050-2100
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
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The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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Let's Get Real: I'm going to use the F-word and the C-word
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's Hollywood feud allegedly involved a smear campaign and 'astroturfing' - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-astroturfing/104761210
In a social media ecosystem already rife with misogyny, racism and aggression, experts say it's remarkably easy to shape the narrative around a public figure through "astroturfing".
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Bad shape
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
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The A.I. backlash backlash: Against "A.G.I."
https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-backlash-backlash
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How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-break-bad
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Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following
How self-promotion became the new networking.
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