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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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Inside: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/

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(This is the last edition of Pluralistic for the year - see you in 2026!)

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Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025)

The Earth from space. Standing astride it is the Wall Street 'Charging Bull.' The bull has glowing red eyes. It is haloed in a starbust of red radiating light. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
The Earth from space. Standing astride it is the Wall Street 'Charging Bull.' The bull has glowing red eyes. It is haloed in a starbust of red radiating light. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
The Earth from space. Standing astride it is the Wall Street 'Charging Bull.' The bull has glowing red eyes. It is haloed in a starbust of red radiating light. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Inside: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boop-oop-a-doop/

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Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 2025)

A collage of images representing creative works entering the public domain on Jan 1, 2026.
A collage of images representing creative works entering the public domain on Jan 1, 2026.
A collage of images representing creative works entering the public domain on Jan 1, 2026.
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Inside: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

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Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)

Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.
Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.
Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.
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Inside: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses; and more!

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A picket line; the picketers are holding militant hand-lettered signs. Behind them, in a red halo, is a cigar-chomping boss figure.
A picket line; the picketers are holding militant hand-lettered signs. Behind them, in a red halo, is a cigar-chomping boss figure.
A picket line; the picketers are holding militant hand-lettered signs. Behind them, in a red halo, is a cigar-chomping boss figure.
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Inside: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/

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Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)

A modified FBI badge. It now reads 'Federal Wallet Investigators.' It is made out to 'Timothy J Shotspotter.' It is held in the three-fingered, gloved grip of a cartoon character. Around its edges, we see a cartoon room from a public domain Betty Boop cartoon.
A modified FBI badge. It now reads 'Federal Wallet Investigators.' It is made out to 'Timothy J Shotspotter.' It is held in the three-fingered, gloved grip of a cartoon character. Around its edges, we see a cartoon room from a public domain Betty Boop cartoon.
A modified FBI badge. It now reads 'Federal Wallet Investigators.' It is made out to 'Timothy J Shotspotter.' It is held in the three-fingered, gloved grip of a cartoon character. Around its edges, we see a cartoon room from a public domain Betty Boop cartoon.
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Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/

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Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025)

A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded.


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A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Inside: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/temporarily-embarrassed-founders/

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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red.


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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

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The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye.

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Inside: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/08/giant-teddybears/

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A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon.

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A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon. Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54817684731).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon. Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54817684731).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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Inside: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/

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The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.
The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.
The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.
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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

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The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye.

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Inside: A year in illustration (2025 edition); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/03/cannier-valley/

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An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
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Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2025; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/constant-reader/

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A male figure in heavy canvas protective clothes, boots and gauntlets, reclining in the wheel-well of a locomotive, reading a book. The figure's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' whose mouth is covered with a black, grawlix-scrawled bar. The figure is reading a book, from which emanates a halo of golden light.
A male figure in heavy canvas protective clothes, boots and gauntlets, reclining in the wheel-well of a locomotive, reading a book. The figure's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' whose mouth is covered with a black, grawlix-scrawled bar. The figure is reading a book, from which emanates a halo of golden light.
A male figure in heavy canvas protective clothes, boots and gauntlets, reclining in the wheel-well of a locomotive, reading a book. The figure's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' whose mouth is covered with a black, grawlix-scrawled bar. The figure is reading a book, from which emanates a halo of golden light.
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Inside: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/erin-go-blagged/

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A 1950s image of a cop with a patrol car lecturing a boy on a bicycle. Both the cop's head and the boy's head have been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The ground has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The background has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cop's uniform and car have been decorated to resemble the livery of the Irish Garda (police) and a Garda logo has been placed over the right breast of the cop's uniform shirt.

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A 1950s image of a cop with a patrol car lecturing a boy on a bicycle. Both the cop's head and the boy's head have been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The ground has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The background has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cop's uniform and car have been decorated to resemble the livery of the Irish Garda (police) and a Garda logo has been placed over the right breast of the cop's uniform shirt. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1950s image of a cop with a patrol car lecturing a boy on a bicycle. Both the cop's head and the boy's head have been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The ground has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The background has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cop's uniform and car have been decorated to resemble the livery of the Irish Garda (police) and a Garda logo has been placed over the right breast of the cop's uniform shirt. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Inside: (Digital) Elbows Up; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

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A rectangular motif suggestive of the Canadian flag, flanked by red bars. In the centre is the Jailbreaking Canada logo, a complex vector illustration of a maple leaf mixed with a keyhole, buildings, and various abstract figures.
A rectangular motif suggestive of the Canadian flag, flanked by red bars. In the centre is the Jailbreaking Canada logo, a complex vector illustration of a maple leaf mixed with a keyhole, buildings, and various abstract figures.
A rectangular motif suggestive of the Canadian flag, flanked by red bars. In the centre is the Jailbreaking Canada logo, a complex vector illustration of a maple leaf mixed with a keyhole, buildings, and various abstract figures.
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Inside: Normie diffusion and technophilia; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/27/early-adapters/

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A supercomputing data center with a drop ceiling. Hanging upside down from the ceiling is a young girl, tinted acid-green, with a halo of light radiating off her body. Around the data center are several young children, running towards her or pointing at her.
A supercomputing data center with a drop ceiling. Hanging upside down from the ceiling is a young girl, tinted acid-green, with a halo of light radiating off her body. Around the data center are several young children, running towards her or pointing at her.
A supercomputing data center with a drop ceiling. Hanging upside down from the ceiling is a young girl, tinted acid-green, with a halo of light radiating off her body. Around the data center are several young children, running towards her or pointing at her.
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Inside: O(N^2) nationalism; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/26/difficult-multipolarism/

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The Earth seen from space. Hovering above it is Uncle Sam, with Trump's hair - his legs are stuck out before him, and they terminate in ray-guns that are shooting red rays over the Earth. The starry sky is punctuated by 'code waterfall' effects, as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
The Earth seen from space. Hovering above it is Uncle Sam, with Trump's hair - his legs are stuck out before him, and they terminate in ray-guns that are shooting red rays over the Earth. The starry sky is punctuated by 'code waterfall' effects, as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
The Earth seen from space. Hovering above it is Uncle Sam, with Trump's hair - his legs are stuck out before him, and they terminate in ray-guns that are shooting red rays over the Earth. The starry sky is punctuated by 'code waterfall' effects, as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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Inside: Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" ; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/open-season/

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An old time hospital ward. In the foreground are a pair of stretcher bearers with a patient. The bearers' heads have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification.' The emoji has been tinted in Google's logo colors. The head of the patient has been replaced with the grinning visage of a 1910s newsie.
An old time hospital ward. In the foreground are a pair of stretcher bearers with a patient. The bearers' heads have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification.' The emoji has been tinted in Google's logo colors. The head of the patient has been replaced with the grinning visage of a 1910s newsie.
An old time hospital ward. In the foreground are a pair of stretcher bearers with a patient. The bearers' heads have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification.' The emoji has been tinted in Google's logo colors. The head of the patient has been replaced with the grinning visage of a 1910s newsie.
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Inside: Cooking in Maximum Security; and more!

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The cover of Half Letter Press's edition of 'Cooking in Maximum Security,' featuring a line-art drawing of a moka coffee pot.
The cover of Half Letter Press's edition of 'Cooking in Maximum Security,' featuring a line-art drawing of a moka coffee pot.
The cover of Half Letter Press's edition of 'Cooking in Maximum Security,' featuring a line-art drawing of a moka coffee pot.
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Inside: Boss preppers; and more!

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Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025)

A forest bunker, set into the hillside; it has been covered with a gold texture. Before it, crouched in the leaf-litter, is a figure in fatigues aiming a gigantic rifle. The figure the head of a millionaire from a Gilded Age editorial cartoon, wearing Oakley tactical glasses. The gun has also been gilded.


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A forest bunker, set into the hillside; it has been covered with a gold texture. Before it, crouched in the leaf-litter, is a figure in fatigues aiming a gigantic rifle. The figure the head of a millionaire from a Gilded Age editorial cartoon, wearing Oakley tactical glasses. The gun has also been gilded. Image: Morten Jensen (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/morten812/9955519384/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
A forest bunker, set into the hillside; it has been covered with a gold texture. Before it, crouched in the leaf-litter, is a figure in fatigues aiming a gigantic rifle. The figure the head of a millionaire from a Gilded Age editorial cartoon, wearing Oakley tactical glasses. The gun has also been gilded. Image: Morten Jensen (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/morten812/9955519384/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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