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New Dark Age (Hardcover, 2018, Verso)
Netizens (Hardcover, 1997, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr)
A People's History of Science (2005, Nation Books)

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The Peasant Prince (2009, Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press)
The Difference Engine (1992)
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Neuromancer (Paperback, 2000, Ace Books)
All Over but the Shoutin' (Hardcover, 1997, Pantheon Books)
Canaveral Light (Hardcover, 2001, The Florida Historical Society Press)

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Reposting a critical tip regarding from @feditips@mstdn.social - particularly aimed at MSM outlets that simply tag their articles with .

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108380464458646658

"Do you want your posts to be seen by as many people as possible on here?"

If so, it's important to use hashtags. Hashtag searches are the main way people find posts on the Fediverse. If a post doesn't have hashtags, people probably won't see it in search results.

Don't worry about using too many tags! As long as they are relevant, it is fine to have lots of tags. Many put a long list of them at the end of the post.

Also, if you are using tags, it's important to set the post's visibility to "Public" so that the post appears in search results.

On Mastodon you can set a post's visibility by clicking the visibility icon at the bottom of the post when you're …

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Totally-selfish tip from a guy on his brand new single-user instance...

When you make that post, PIN IT.

The way federation works, if someone from a new or small instance clicks on your name, your post history often shows up nearly empty.

Pinned posts (almost) *always* show up, though. So, *pin those intros* (or really anything you're proud of)!

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For those to and any other platforms across the . You can search for the or to get info about all kinds of little nuances of the Fediverse!

The most important ones:
Make an post littered with hashtags that are relevant to your interests. People with those interests are likely to follow or your introduction for more visibility.

Follow Follow! Follow people that seem interesting to you. It's the basis of "federation" across the fediverse and helps your toot travel to other instances.

and enjoy your freedom from and !

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"The clearing-house of the brain, the wings of the spirit, books lift us away from the petty, crowded day's smallness and entanglement."

Kathleen Thompson Norris was born in 1880. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris was a prolific writer who wrote 93 novels, many of which became best sellers. via @wikipedia

Books by Kathleen Norris at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1247

Kathleen Norris in 1925, photograph by Arnold Genthe.
Title page of Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4947 Sisters is one of the romance novel of Kathleen Thompson Norris who was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909.
Kathleen Norris in 1925, photograph by Arnold Genthe. Kathleen Thompson Norris was born in San Francisco, California, on July 16, 1880. Her parents were Josephine (née Moroney) and James Alden Thompson. When she was 19 both her parents died. As the oldest sibling she became effectively the head of a large family and had to work. Initially, she found employment in a department store, which was soon followed by work in an accounting office and then the Mechanic's Institute Library. In 1905, she enrolled in a creative writing program at the University of California, Berkeley and began writing short stories. The San Francisco Call, which had published a few of her stories, hired her to write a society column in September 1906. In the course of that work she met Charles Gilman Norris (whose late elder brother was the novelist Frank Norris), and they soon fell in love. He moved to New York to be art editor of The American Magazine. After eight months of daily correspondence and some improvements in her family's financial situation, she joined him there and they were married in April 1909.
Title page of Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4947 Sisters is one of the romance novel of Kathleen Thompson Norris who was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909.
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"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born in 1861. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women. via @wikipedia

Books by Ida Bell Wells-Barnett at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5765

Ida B. Wells Barnett, in a photograph by Mary Garrity from c. 1893. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War. At the age of 14, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells found better pay as a teacher. Soon, Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper. Her reporting in the newspaper covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. In the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in the United States in articles and through her pamphlets called Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases, and The Red Record, investigating frequent claims of whites that lynchings were reserved for Black criminals only. Wells exposed lynching as a barbaric practice used by whites in the South to intimidate and oppress African Americans who created economic and political competition—and a subsequent threat of loss of power—for whites.
Cover of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975 On October 26, 1892, Wells began to publish her research on lynching in a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Having examined many accounts of lynchings due to the alleged "rape of White women", she concluded that Southerners cried rape as an excuse to hide their real reasons for lynchings: Black economic progress, which threatened White Southerners with competition, and White ideas of enforcing Black second-class status in the society. Black economic progress was a contemporary issue in the South, and in many states Whites worked to suppress Black progress. In this period at the turn of the century, Southern states, starting with Mississippi in 1890, passed laws and/or new constitutions to disenfranchise most Black people and many poor White people through use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other devices.
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The new ".zip" domain is being used almost solely for malware. Some of the clicks are very deceptive, even to technically knowledgeable people. See the attached image for an example.

You can block all zip domains with the following uBlock Origin rule:

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Tell everyone you know.

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Some asshole teenager on a citibike buzzed me on the sidewalk. I was mad for all of 10 seconds before I remembered that in most places in the US, that same kid would have a learner's permit and would be buzzing me in a crosswalk with his parents' 2 ton SUV. Or worse.

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Beneath all the complicated issues is a big, simple question that most media hasn't adequately covered or even really approached: why don't communities have water? Literally just WHY. Without crazy loopy wonky theatrics. Ag has water. Suburbs have water. Why don't tribes?

Finally, @ProPublica and HCN are addressing that question. It's a major investigative series. They've published the first of their findings:

https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.7/indigenous-affairs-colorado-river-how-arizona-stands-between-tribes-and-their-water-squeezed

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