I wrote on solarpunk literature, the eco-socialist answer to the dystopian novel, for Current Affairs! As post-apocalyptic fiction ensnares readers with tales of despair, solarpunk shows us how we can rebuild our world into something beautiful and long-lasting currentaffairs.org/2024/03/how-so…

i dare one bridge conspiracy theorist who has tweeted "black swan event" to define that phrase

Wow. Just wow. Simply the best read I’ve seen on the antimonopoly movements closing in on Google. Smart points like this. “It’s quite something that Google would reference its role in keeping the internet free, considering the massive revenue it extracts from that service.” 1/2

Today is Biz Markie's 60th birthday: youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoB…

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Has anyone managed to use the CCPA (or GDPR?) to force Intuit Mailchimp to cough up a list of all the mailing lists you've been nonconsensually added to?

Oh, and given that lin codega goes west broke the story of the OGL scandal and saved the TTRPG community as we know it, have you subscribed to Lin's news website, Rascal? Don't you think you owe Lin at least a buck or two for saving the world's greatest game? rascal.news

Start getting your mini photos ready! Going to celebrate WD 500 by doing some free paintovers soon! Tips down below for camera angles etc that may help. #warhammercommunity

The novel I'm currently writing, BEAR CREEK LODGE, is about the intergenerational toxic impact on Black artists working in Hollywood and it is sooo healing LOL (It's also contemporary creature horror set in the world of my short story "Incident at Bear Creek Lodge") :)

Tonight I discovered that my daughter, who is 17, has lived her whole life believing that the name of the singer of The Rolling Stones is McJagger.

Woah. Google is effectively trying to buy out the United States by tendering a cashier's check for the claimed max damages from screwing industry with adtech market power abuses. US DOJ's adtech antitrust trial seeking to break them up is months away. 1/4

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) Members of the European Parliament from many different parties urged Thierry Breton to follow Ireland's shining example x.com/johnnyryan/sta…

Sledgehammer. Duel.

Ok, here’s my big news on Wytchcog! First, I’m am so happy to announce that our little game will be published by none other than Runehammer I have adored Runehammer Games, and his YouTube channel, for many years, and I’m so happy to have him as a partner! More below…

This thread by Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) is genuinely the most interesting piece I have read till now on the Getty images case and on the stances and the lobbying around that case- the Hollywood strikes, artists will lose their job concern etc. It put things in a very interesting perspective!

The Gauntlet is hiring artists! And we want to see your portfolios! 1) Please RT or share this with folks who might be interested. 2) Instructions for how to contact us will be at the end of the thread. Please DO NOT send a Twitter DM—I won't answer it. Thread:

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This amazing thread by Jason Kint explains why FB’s SCOTUS hearing is a giant test of the rule of law.

This week, in a genuinely stunning series of events, a bill that was written to save local journalism from big tech was gutted in a backroom deal—and wound up bailing out Google and *boosting AI* instead. You can't make this stuff up. Here's how it happened.

hi beehiiv 🐝 - one of your customers is spamming me - how do I report them and get removed from your service or is #SPAM your business model?