Melissa Mendes's "The Weight": Graphic novel as emotional roller-coaster.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115067072453054335

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Hey look at this

* Mamdani is the leader NYC needs for innovation and entrepreneurship https://www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/zohran_mamdani_is_the_nyc_innovation_leader/

* RFK Jr Cut Grants for Autism Research While Vowing to Find a Cause https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment-research-funding

* Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

* stupid games, stupid prizes, slight returns https://backofmind.substack.com/p/stupid-games-stupid-prizes-slight

* On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surrendering-in-advance-or-during-or-at-any-point-thereafter/

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#10yrsago Eat invasive species and enjoy guilt-free meat https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-19/invasive-species-chefs-latest-menu-offering

#10yrsago Windows 10 EULA: Microsoft can killswitch your unauthorized hardware and pirate games https://www.alphr.com/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10/1001360/microsoft-can-disable-your-pirated-games-and-illegal-hardware/

#10yrsago Ashley Madison commits copyfraud in desperate bid to suppress news of its titanic leak https://web.archive.org/web/20150820170651/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/ashley-madison-sent-me-a-dmca-request-for-tweeting-two-cells-of-a-spreadsheet

#10yrsago Your Android unlock pattern sucks as much as your password did https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/new-data-uncovers-the-surprising-predictability-of-android-lock-patterns/

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#10yrsago “I hope the Chinese aren’t collating the Ashley Madison data with their handy federal list of every American with a security clearance.” -Bruce Sterling https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/127151439198/man-those-are-some-savage-vigilantes-i-hope

#10yrsago Google covertly lobbied against net neutrality in India https://www.medianama.com/2015/08/223-google-iamai-net-neutrality-india/

#5yrsago Boeing fixes the 737 Max problem https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#737-8

#5yrsago College Covid app is a security dumpster-fire https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#thick-description

#5yrsago The Mail https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#franked

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#1yrago Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man" https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/20/piche/#cynchin

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Yesterday's threads: Become unoptimizable; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115061545071207651

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels

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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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