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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/20/piche/

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The Simon and Schuster cover for Nalo Hopkinson's 'Blackheart Man.'

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: What the fuck is a PBM? and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/23/shield-of-boringness/

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A Rube Goldberg machine for feeding a man soup. It has been placed against a background of scattered, assorted pills. In the foreground, along the bottom of the frame, are loosely stacked, bundled US one hundred dollar bills. Beside them stands a miniature caricature of a capitalist, holding a bulging, dollar-sign-emblazoned sack.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Matt Bors's "Justice Warriors: Vote Harder"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/11/uninhabited-zone/

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The cover for 'Justice Warriors: Vote Harder.'

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Dirty words are politically potent; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/

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A poop emoji standing on an infinitely receding tiled floor against a 'Code Waterfall' background as seen in the credits of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movie. It has a red, angular, steam-snorting speech bubble coming out of its mouth, full of 'grawlix' (nonsense punctuation meant to indicate swearing).

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/21/we-can-have-nice-things/

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A 19th century Puck editorial cartoon of Uncle Sam standing between two funhouse mirrors, one of which depicts him as an emaciated, terrified figure; the other depicts him as a fat and happy fellow. The background is a highly magnified US $100 bill. Over the 'fat' mirror the text from US banknotes: 'This note is legal tender for all debts private and public.'

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rights-without-power/

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A bookcase. Rupert Murdoch's grinning head rests between a gap in the books. Centered in his forehead is the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rupert_Murdoch_-_Flickr_-_Eva_Rinaldi_Celebrity_and_Live_Music_Photographer.jpg

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2024; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/booklish/

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Samuel Hollyer's 1875 engraving of Charles Dickens in his study, sitting at a desk, staring out a window, surrounded by bookcases.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Proud to be a blockhead; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/

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A writer, bundled in furs, sitting on a block of ice and writing with a quill pen. His head has been replaced with that of a skeleton. His inkpot is suspended over a camp stove. He has written, 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.' Surrounding him in a semicircle are nine angry, wealthy men in old fashioned suits, shouting and gesticulating. The background is a faded US$100 bill.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Petard, Part IV and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/03/rot-fungus-r-us/

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The cover of MIT Tech Review's 12 Tomorrows anthology, an oil painting from one of Herbert's *Dune* novels.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump loves Big Tech; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/24/whats-good-for-big-tech/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/06/picks-and-shovels-tour/

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A modified version of the cover art for my novel 'Picks and Shovels,' featuring a vector-art drawing of a vintage PC, as well as my name and the book title. I appear on the screen, standing before a mic and laughing.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Eggflation is excuseflation; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/10/demand-and-supply/

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A 'stonks' meme, featuring a 3d modeled head atop the body of a man in a business suit, arms folded, standing before a stylized stock-chart with an orange arrow pointing up and to the right. The word 'stonks' has been replaced with 'eggs.' A cartoon drawing of a shattered, crying Humpty Dumpty is in the bottom left corner.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Who Broke the Internet? Part III; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/19/khan-thought/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: David Enrich's "Murder the Truth"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/17/actual-malice/

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The cover for the Harpercollins edition of David Enrich's 'Murder the Truth.'

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Every complex ecosystem has parasites; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/

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A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The enshittification of tech jobs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/free-enterprise-system/

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The Penguin Random House cover for Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere.'

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Machina economicus; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/

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An engraved illustration from a 1903 French edition of HG Wells's 'War of the Worlds.' It shows a shadow street scene in which revelers are spilling out of a nightclub, oblivious to the looming 'tripod' Martian at the end of the block. It has been modified. The Martian's eyes now emit two beams of brown light that strike the revelers, who have been tinted red, making it appear as though they are being cooked by lasers. Behind the skyline looms a giant poop emoji.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/

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A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/21/trumpflation/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Against transparency; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/

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A three-headed jack-in-the-box, sproinging out of a box bearing a Facebook terms of service update notice. Each of Jack's heads has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Each head wears a top hat. Two of Jack's six hands have been replaced with Facebook 'thumbs up' icons. Each of the three aspects of Jack brandishes a cruel whip.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Farewell (for the moment); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/30/gone-fission/

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A vintage photo of a fisherman in an old-fashioned, one-piece bathing suit holding aloft a long fishing rod from which dangles a fish. The image has been tinted. The fisherman's head has been replaced with a poop emoji. The fish is surrounded by a green nuclear glow. The background is a stylized magnified view of blood cells rushing through a vein.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/babyish-radical-extremists/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/

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A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'

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