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Inside: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/02/filial-piety/
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@pluralistic is there a name for this art style? Because it reminds me of the litch from adventure time and plenty of metal album covers but in a softer interpretation. I’m here for it
I'm on the LAST STOP of my 24-city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels!
Catch me in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on TONIGHT (July 2):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
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Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts": A phantasmagorical memoir of intergenerational trauma and reconciliation.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114782674918519382
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Hey look at this
* FCC will allow prison phone gougers years of ripoffs https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/07/18/fcc-vote/
* Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT Master's after 45-year detour https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/mitch_kapor_mba/
* Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents https://lithub.com/ted-chiang-on-superintelligence-and-its-discontents-in-j-d-beresfords-innovative-work-of-early-20th-century-science-fiction/ (h/t Kottke)
* AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep workers afraid of losing jobs https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/ai-warnings-ceos (h/t Ed Zitron)
* Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
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#20yrsago Anti-DRM badges https://web.archive.org/web/20050701004506/http://nootropic.blogspot.com/2005/06/gallery-of-drm-related-antipixel.html
#15yrsago ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles_2_0.pdf
#15yrsago Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts https://web.archive.org/web/20100702002151/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/weapons-seized-in-g20-arrests-put-on-display/article1622761/
#15yrsago Copyright best practices for communications scholars https://web.archive.org/web/20100628005458/http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication
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#15yrsago G20 police used imaginary law to jail harass demonstrators and jailed protestors in dangerous and abusive “detention center” https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/29/g20-police-used-imaginary-law-to-jail-harass-demonstrators-and-jailed-protestors-in-dangerous-and-abusive-detention-center/
#10yrsago Why I’m leaving London https://memex.craphound.com/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london/
#10yrsago Neal Stephenson on the story behind Seveneves http://www.bookotron.com/agony/audio/2015/2015-interviews/neal_stephenson-2015.mp3
#10yrsago Brian Wood’s Starve: get to your comic shop now! https://memex.craphound.com/2015/06/29/brian-woods-starve-get-to-your-comic-shop-now/
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#10yrsago BBC’s list of pages de-indexed through Europe’s “right to be forgotten” https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Finternet%2Fentries%2F1d765aa8-600b-4f32-b110-d02fbf7fd379
#5yrsago NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#market-failure
#5yrsago Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#fb-hearts-dt
#5yrsago How to break up Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#braygoog
#5yrsago Female Furies https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#apokolips-now
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