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Listen! Avoid magic! Be aware!
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape
5 days ago
Confession: I love Ursula Le Guin but I am uncomfortable with elevating her to a perfect woke secular saint. Great art - and she was a great artist - is more complex than that. See also: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ.
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Katelyn Burns
20 days ago
And of course the Patreon version!
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Hasan Piker is the King of the 2nd Screen | Katelyn Burns
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But you can cat a train, if you're daffy enough
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Aftermath
29 days ago
âAn overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing forceâ: what it's like working for a company that's forcing AI on its developers:
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Emily C. Hughes
about 1 month ago
I too have some thoughts on the Shy Girl mess (free to read)
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Mia Culpa: On Shy Girl and Artistic Optimism | Read Jump Scares
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Brandy Jensen
about 2 months ago
really good essay on romance novels, womenâs basketball, and the wishes fulfilled by both
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How Can You Not Be Romantic About Women's Basketball? | Defector
Most âwomenâs sports novelsâ are really novels about girls. In them, girlhood is something mourned before itâs over. Like the games themselves, the books are set to ticking clocks. When the high schoo...
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Tom Cox
5 months ago
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
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Sarah Z
3 months ago
I want to be clear about one other thing, then I'm gonna drop it and go play some chess. This man is not just accepting support. He is actively liking comments from other men that call me, a queer woman, a "homophobic bitch" for checking whether publicly available Instagram posts exist. A bitch!!!
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Adrian Daub
4 months ago
This is what your family members voted for but you donât bring it up at Christmas This is what youâve been kowtowing to This is what youâve been trying to placate This is what youâve been trying to blame the most vulnerable for This is what youâre yearning to meet halfway
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Seth Cotlar
4 months ago
âInsofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, and writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education. It is not more complicated than that.â
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Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattdinan/p/the-ai-skeptical-professors-guide?r=alsf&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Defector
4 months ago
These are the sports moments from 2025 that the Defector staff enjoyed.
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Our Favorite Sports Moments Of 2025 | Defector
These are the sports moments from 2025 that the Defector staff enjoyed. Aâja Wilson Hits A Game-Winner In Phoenix By October, I think I did know subconsciously that Aâja Wilson was the greatestâŠ
https://defector.com/our-favorite-sports-moments-of-2025
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Manning Krull
4 months ago
Welcome to the year Twenty X-ty Six.
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Don Moynihan
4 months ago
New, from me: Time for something fun - I wrote about themes and fashions of the Knives Out Universe (KOU). đ§”
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Exploring the Knives Out Universe
Are they just entertaining murder mysteries or something more?
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-the-knives-out-universe
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wen-yi lee
5 months ago
resurfacing the dark academia fantasy novelette i published earlier this year, about identity, assimilation & pursuit in a colonial institution â€ïž
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Reactor Magazine
5 months ago
Ursula Le Guin's short story "Solitude" presents a fascinating counterpoint to the concept of the Happily Ever After ending, imagining alternative ways of thinking about the world, relationships, and the self:
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âAvoid Magicâ: Le Guinâs Case for âSolitudeâ in the Era of Romantasy - Reactor
Weighed against the narrative perfection of a Happily Ever After, can there be pleasure in remaining alone?
https://reactormag.com/avoid-magic-le-guins-case-for-solitude-in-the-era-of-romantasy/
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Nathan Goldwag
5 months ago
ICYMI: One of the most interesting things about sci-fi is that ideas like a space elevator or an O'Neil cylinder can "exist" as discrete, almost Platonic concepts without ever taking on physical manifestation. The folks at Heat Death very kindly gave me space to talk about the implications of that.
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The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
https://heat-death.ghost.io/th-yesterdays-tomorrows/
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Sarah McLaughlin
5 months ago
from suffering eagles fans began, and to suffering we shall return
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Adam Serwer
6 months ago
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda
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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of âscientific racismâ
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/dungeons-and-dragons-elon-musk/684828/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8GGxnQHRi73kkVRWjnKGUVM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Corey Atad
6 months ago
moar
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Conrad Benner
6 months ago
This morning, I stopped by the Share Food Program to learn how you can get help and give help to your neighbors in Philly right now during the government shutdown.
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Reactor Magazine
6 months ago
Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time? "Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" by
@p-h-lee.bsky.social
is out now at Reactor! Art by Rebekka Dunlap Edited by
@malf.bsky.social
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Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves - Reactor
Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time?
https://reactormag.com/timelike-curves-spacelike-curves-p-h-lee/
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David_j_roth
6 months ago
I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine.
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What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...
https://defector.com/what-job-is-a-guy-with-a-nazi-tattoo-qualified-for
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Bolts
6 months ago
Retention elections for supreme courts tend to be sleepy affairs, but that's changing. Last year, a justice lost for the first time in Oklahoma history, while progressive campaigns fell short in Arizona and Florida. This fall, eyes are on Pennsylvania.
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Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvaniaâs Supreme Court
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democratsâ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
https://boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-supreme-court-elections-2025/
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Micah
6 months ago
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
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Jadzia Axelrod đłïžâđđłïžââ§ïž
6 months ago
We're live, folks!
@matthtaylor.com
and I have a blood-curdling body-horror story in this talent-packed anthology, about TRANS WITCHES hunting a MONSTER. Of course, that mission goes horribly, horribly wrong.
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Louie Stowell
7 months ago
One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises
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âCatastrophic declineâ in Black representation in childrenâs books
A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/08/catastrophic-decline-in-black-representation-in-childrens-books
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Christina Orlando
7 months ago
feed me your booooooooooks
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Defector
7 months ago
PHILADELPHIA â By the top of the ninth inning, the stadium was visibly pockmarked by absences, and people were booing Jhoan Duran's walkout show.
defector.com/never-bunt
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Never Bunt | Defector
PHILADELPHIA â By the top of the ninth inning, the stadium was visibly pockmarked by absences, and people were booing Jhoan Duranâs walkout show. Duran, who was just doing his job as the PhiladelphiaâŠ
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Senator Ron Wyden
7 months ago
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
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Boston Review
7 months ago
Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that ânothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.â
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together/
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Naomi Klein
7 months ago
Sharing this excerpt from my foreword to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's extraordinary collection of prison writings, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated." Stay tuned...
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Naomi Klein on How Egyptâs Extinguished Revolution Continues to Inspire Struggle Worldwide
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, a collection from Alaa Abd el-Fattah published this year by Seven Stories Press, is living history. Many of its words were first written with pencil and paper in a câŠ
https://lithub.com/naomi-klein-on-how-egypts-failed-revolution-continues-to-inspire-struggle-worldwide/
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Amal El-Mohtar
7 months ago
just absolutely furious with
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for being such a goddamn genius "the contradictory heart of what prose does, which is to waste the readerâs time as efficiently and sexily as possible...a reader gives you their time, and you tell them, word by word, how to spend it." y E s
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on purple prose
so i love a metaphor! sue me! or...come see me on tour?
https://buttondown.com/alixeharrow/archive/on-purple-prose/
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ProPublica
7 months ago
One insurance denial for Teressa's husband stated, âyour newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.â âThis is when I really start to think theyâre just denying,â she recalled. âTheyâre not even looking. Theyâre just âdeny, deny, deny.ââ âĄïž Full story:
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Karen Attiah
7 months ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
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The Washington Post Fired Me â But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America â and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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Miles Klee đŠ
8 months ago
oh well, onward and upward
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Amanda Mull
8 months ago
Had three drinks at a work thing and came home directly to the Zapruder film of Jalen Carter spitting on Dak Prescott
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mtsw
8 months ago
this is an interesting idea re: marketing but i don't really agree with this and actually think Pixar's mistake has been over-reaching in trying to appeal to adults over kids in terms of tone and sensibility (along with a couple genuine duds quality-wise)
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Defector
8 months ago
We'll never know if Travis Kelce would have proposed after winning the Super Bowl, because Kansas City got absolutely stomped by the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Travis Kelce Sufficiently Recovered From Humiliating Super Bowl Loss To Propose | Defector
In a joint Instagram post made this afternoon, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement. âYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,â the caption reads. The songâŠ
https://defector.com/travis-kelce-sufficiently-recovered-from-humiliating-super-bowl-loss-to-propose
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Radley Balko
8 months ago
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
8 months ago
This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion â the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death. So Iâll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
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Opal
9 months ago
In November of 2016, nearly 60 years after the paper was published internally, I had discovered the joke. A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:
media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...
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Defector
9 months ago
Nerves, nerves, nerves: On autobiographies of trans female sexuality
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Nerves, Nerves, Nerves | Defector
On autobiographies of trans female sexuality
https://defector.com/nerves-nerves-nerves
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Tal Lavin
10 months ago
the iron rule of lord of the rings is when you go someplace you have to stop and declaim exactly where you are and its significance
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Erotic, you say? Queer, you say? Cosmic horror, yo kshidnd wit zilll l kg uiwoqp jjjjjjj r'lyeh
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Xtra
10 months ago
Hot Girls with Balls is an expertly structured text. Reading it is a dizzying experience, as overwhelming as scrolling through a constantly updating online comment section, while straining to follow the various polarized arguments that are being thrown around.
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âHot Girls with Ballsâ is deliciously, painfully online | Xtra Magazine
Benedict Nguyá» nâs debut novel is both tender and ruthless about the frictions of being internet famous
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/hot-girls-with-balls-benedict-nguyen-274745
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Jay Willis
10 months ago
Verily I have blogged it
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Sam Alito Is a Homophobe Who Should Be Shunned From Polite Society
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, six conservative Christian justices decided that the First Amendment gives conservative Christian parents veto power over public school curriculum they donât like.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmoud-v-taylor-samuel-alito-opinion/
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Reactor Magazine
10 months ago
"Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?" Does it matter? Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Seasonâand how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work:
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The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season - Reactor
What place do sex scenes have in contemporary SFF?
https://reactormag.com/the-necessary-sex-scene-intimacy-as-craft-in-n-k-jemisins-the-fifth-season/
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Alex Brown đ”đž (they/them)
10 months ago
It's a very modern tradition! Not until we got home kitchens did we do this I wrote a whole book on restaurant culture and foodways (Lost Restaurants of Napa Valley) so trust me when I tell you almost everyone ate out all the time until fairly recently.
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