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Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
In Teen Vogue’s special issue cover story, the estranged 20-year-old daughter of Elon Musk talks about the “cartoonishly evil” Trump administration and being a young trans woman today.
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How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying, by Django Wexler
https://djangowexler.com/writing/how-to-become-the-dark-lord-and-die-trying/
Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself. Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and […]
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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Australian Ceramic artist Shannon Garson
https://www.shannongarsonporcelain.com.au/shop
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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
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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Sleeping Women
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/sophie-smith/sleeping-womenue
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What Happened Here: It's Very Simple Dialectics
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f
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The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-tomb-of-dragons/
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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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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear, by Seanan McGuire
https://torpublishinggroup.com/adrift-in-currents-clean-and-clear/
The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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We're getting the social media crisis wrong
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
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As Australia's reliance on imported blood plasma grows, the ethics of paid donation are back in focus - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-07/donating-blood-plasma-money-red-cross-supply/103923554
Australia imported hundreds of millions of dollars in plasma products from overseas last year to make up a national shortfall.
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James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities
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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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LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/lgbtq-people-are-not-going-back/
On identity politics and unreasonable demands.
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Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/political-parties-are-illegal-in-the-united-states/
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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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Mark Zuckerberg Has a Funny Idea of What It Is to Be a Man
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/opinion/zuckerberg-masculine-energy-rogan-trump.html
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/
Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/68918/gisele-pelicot-person-of-the-year
By insisting that her mass rape trial was held in the open, Pelicot has gifted others with real hope for change
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