OK, fascist-voting small-town working man, so you no longer believe in the equal value of all men & women.
I don't think you know who the original beneficiary of this radical philosophical shift was: you were.
If we're abandoning the equal value of all men & women, this isn't going to hit Iranian doctors or Syrian dentists or Chinese software engineers in Europe. It's going to hit you, your wife and your children.
9/9/2026ow my everything. :bancars: irl
My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Apple Event Live Blog: Folding iPhone, Apple Watch Series 12, AirPods, and More
https://www.wired.com/live/apple-event-live-blog-september-2026-iphone-launch/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Gear & Gadgets @gear-gadgets-WIRED
My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/
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My previous nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It":
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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Monday's threads: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117228137290589513
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"How do you find the right therapist?
No easy answer, not that I’ve found anyway."
Good honest article by Philippa Perry.
https://philippaperry.substack.com/p/how-do-you-find-the-right-therapist
RE: https://biologists.social/@stefanfwirth/117240718051678252
I also really like that they look different depending on where the develop. If they grew in wetter decaying matter, they get different shine of cuticles, different colors!
It's pretty neat #beetles #insects
9/9/2026RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/117238555582677941
Never read the source, you might find something that doesn't align with your preconceived notions.
"However, among students who use AI for schoolwork for a general
purpose (“to help me learn”), those who report moderate use score slightly higher in PISA than students who use it either rarely or intensively."—p.236
see also p240 where students using LLMS 1-2 times per week perform best.
#1yrago Trump steals $400b from American workers https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/09/germanium-valley/#i-cant-quit-you
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iPhone 18 Pro Price Hike to Be Lower Than Expected https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/iphone-18-pro-price-hike-to-be-lower-than-expected/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/man-told-chatgpt-he-was-feeling-delusional-chatgpt-insisted-he-was-jesus/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again https://web.archive.org/web/20160908124630/http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html
#10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition https://michaelweinberg.org/post/150123246460/the-cost-of-a-successful-creative-commons-and-open/
#10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history https://thenib.com/inmates-are-planning-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/
#10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/drm-product-labelling-ftc-electronic-frontier-foundation?CMP=share_btn_tw
#1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance
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Because it is Indiana, the sun is only barely starting to come up and the sky is still mostly dark. I am trying to motivate to get out for a run but not having much luck.
I would just run later, except it is supposed to be 90 again today and already feels like 77 🫤
Been taking a break and meditating on #narcissism because I was narcissistically abused, right? And it's never made much sense to me. So...you want me to make you feel good and proud about yourself...but...shouldn't you be making yourself feel good and proud about yourself? Why do you need another person to do that for you? The disease makes no goddamned sense. Like narcs suck at being narcs. Like #trump needs OTHER people to make him love himself. So did my dad. So does my mother. Like, WTF?!
#10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-strikes-in-history-but-no-one-on-u-s-cable-news-covered-it/
#10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-associations-landscaping-plans-20160831-snap-story.html
#10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives
#10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture https://web.archive.org/web/20160909001439/https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/blog/Final_Captured_Systemic_Bias_at_the_US_Copyright_Office.pdf
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 09.09.57
Bad House fuses together auto-battling and dungeon-crawling beneath your new house https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/bad-house-fuses-together-auto-battling-and-dungeon-crawling-beneath-your-new-house/
#BadHouse #IndieGames #PCGaming #DungeonCrawler #Proton #Autobattler
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