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I’m really intrigued by the "RAD FUTURE" snippet—it sounds like a bold and thought-provoking take! I’m not very familiar with Isabelle Boemeke’s work, but this excerpt definitely piqued my curiosity. Do you think this book is worth diving into? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
p.s.: Just a bit of #AltText would make it even better: The image shows an open book with a page titled "TL;DR" in large, bold letters. The text on the page: "TL;DR Degrowthers drive me nuts. In my experience, they almost always come from energy-rich societies and yet somehow romanticize poverty, like it's some kind of spiritual awakening. Contrary to what proponents of this philosophy may tell you, using lots of energy isn't inherently bad. In fact, energy abundance is the secret to human happiness and equality. We've already figured out how to grow economies without increasing emissions. All we need to do is sub out the dirty fuels of the past with clean ones. Ifs not rocket science, unless you count nuclear as rocket science, which, let's be real, it kind of is. " The text is divided into two columns and is set against a light gray background with a grid pattern. A thumb is visible at the bottom of the page, indicating that the book is being held open. The background is slightly blurred, with indistinct objects visible, suggesting a casual setting.
Oh, I didn’t even realize I was the second one! 😅 That’s actually such a great little moment—it really shows how welcoming and inclusive the Fediverse can be. 💙 Thank you for editing
Haha, I love this energy! 😆 This is such a great (and frustrating!) example of how DRM can backfire 😠 DRM is such a needless barrier, and your solution—downloading it again without the restrictions—feels like a tiny act of rebellion for the greater good. (And honestly, good for you!)
I bought Rad Future earlier this week and immediately remembered why I don't buy books in the usual stores: the reason why I didn't post an alt text earlier was because the f'cking DRM prevented me from doing so.
So, now I just downloaded the book again, without the DRM, just out of spite and because I really want to be able to quote snippets.
Degrowthers drive me nuts. In my experience, they almost always come from energy-rich societies and yet somehow romanticize poverty, like it's some kind of spiritual awakening. Contrary to what proponents of this philosophy may tell you, using lots of energy isn't inherently bad. In fact, energy abundance is the secret to human happiness and equality. We've already figured out how to grow economies without increasing emissions. [continued]
I think some degrowthers get capitalism's "burn the planet for some profit" model and the general "technological progress" thing conflated. There are nuanced positions but they tend to get drowned out. Clean energy abundance - 100% possible & a unnalloyed good. Using it to eliminate all forests so the whole world can eat beef? Not so much.
We have to have a large advanced manufacturing base to do anything except watch billions starve. We have to organise better.
Every Tuesday, I ask for your help to feed my family. We need $500 each week for my family of 6. Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇 500/500$ chuffed.org/project/138285-hel…
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.
What if the “grassroots” political movements reshaping American cities aren’t grassroots at all, but rather illegal tax-exempt charity funded operations disguised as community activism?
Today is Tuesday, and every week on this day I try to raise donations to feed my family for a whole week. I swear to you that I am unable to do so today, after a night I couldn’t sleep because of the bombing, filled with anxiety and fear. #gaza @palestine
Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct: Everything Announced
The Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct has come to an end after 45 minutes of fresh gameplay details and release date information from director Masahiro Sakurai himself.
"The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them."
-- Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) Historian and author Source: Freedom and Order, 1966
British MPs have warned that the government must not allow British nationals to fight in the Israeli military after it emerged that Israel is mulling the recruitment of Jewish youths from abroad to fight in its army due to severe manpower shortages.
Keir Starmer’s Labour government has had a dismal first year in power. In an interview, socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn explains why it’s time to create a new left-wing party that empowers working-class people.
"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) a averti qu’environ trois millions de Syriens pourraient être confrontés à une grave famine, alors que plus de la moitié de la population est en situation d’insécurité alimentaire, suite à une baisse de près de 40% de la production de blé, rapporte l’agence kurde ANHA. La
SYRIE / ROJAVA – Le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) a averti qu’environ trois millions de Syriens pourraient être confrontés à une grave famine, alors que plus de la moitié de la population est en situation d’insécurité alimentaire, suite à une b…
Tales of Xillia Remastered Launches October 31; Sadly, Xillia 2 is Not Included
Bandai Namco has announced that the next entry in the Tales of 30th Anniversary Remastered Project is Tales of Xillia Remastered for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on October 31, 2025. Players can anticipate quality of life enhancements, namely toggling enemy ecnoutners on and off. Plus, original DLC will [...]
Hace no tanto, me dijeron que el urbanismo feminista no existía y se burlaron de mi. Qué la movilidad sostenible no tenia nada que ver con el feminismo.
Charlie Jane Anders' *Lessons in Magic and Disaster* drops today: it's a novel about queer academia, the wonder of thinking very hard about very old books, and the terror and joy of ambiguous magic. It's my kind of novel!
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In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. A young witch teaches he...
Stefano Cerio has shot eerie abandoned cruise ships and empty ski resorts at night. Now, the Italian photographer has travelled all over China – from Happy Valley to Amazing World and Treasure Island Pirate Kingdom – to catch pleasure playgrounds in …
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from 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."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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"IRAN / ROJHILAT – Emprisonnés en Iran, quatre prisonniers politiques kurdes de nationalité turque doivent signer des documents transférant la garde de leurs enfants à leurs familles. Les autorités des prisons de Qarchak et d’Evin ont averti quatre prisonniers politiques kurdes de nationalité
IRAN / ROJHILAT – Emprisonnés en Iran, quatre prisonniers politiques kurdes de nationalité turque doivent signer des documents transférant la garde de leurs enfants à leurs familles.
The release date for Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders has been announced by Nintendo following a special Direct presentation. The post Kirby Air Riders Release Date Announced appeared first on Insider Gaming.
Charlie Jane Anders' *Lessons in Magic and Disaster* drops today: it's a novel about queer academia, the wonder of thinking very hard about very old books, and the terror and joy of ambiguous magic. It's my kind of novel!
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. A young witch teaches he...
There's a kind of magic I *love* to read about - the kind where it's not entirely clear whether the person purporting to do magic is acting entirely on instinct, and neither they nor we can be entirely sure whether anything magical has actually happened. This ambiguity just *tickles* something in me, the part of my brain that tries to bear down on traffic lights to make them turn green, or on board-game dice to get a good roll.
It's the mode of Iain Banks's *The Wasp Factory* and Kelly Link's *Book of Love.* It's a mode that Anders does superbly, and has done since her 2016 debut novel, *All the Birds in the Sky*:
That's the kind of magic at the heart of *Magic and Disaster*, which tells the story of Jamie, a doctoral candidate at a New England liberal arts college who is trying to hold it all together while she finishes her dissertation.
For Jamie, holding it together is a tall order. Her relationship is on the rocks, her advisor is breathing down her neck, a smartass alt-right kid in her class keeps trolling her lectures, and to top it all off, her mother Sarina has withdrawn from society and is self-evidently preparing to lie down and die, out of grief and penance for the death of her wife, who died of cancer that everyone - her doctors and Sarina - downplayed until it was too late.
That would be an impossible lift, except for Jamie's gift for maybe-magic - magic that might or might not be real. Certain places ("liminal spaces") call to Jamie. These are abandoned, dirty, despoiled places, ruins and dumps and littered campsites. When Jamie finds one of these places, she can improvise a ritual, using the things in her pockets and school bag as talismans that might - or might not - conjure small bumps of luck and fortune into Jamie's path.
Jamie's never told anyone about the magic, but when she and Sarina have an especially bitter confrontation, it slips out. In desperation, Jamie gives her mother - a campaigning lawyer who has withdrawn from life and become a hermit - a demonstration of magic. Her mother approaches the demonstration with a lawyer's don't-bullshit-me skepticism, but something in her responds to the magic.
When Jamie leaves her, Sarina tries to bring back her dead wife, a forbidden conjuring that has disastrous consequences.
Jamie had hoped to give her mother something to live for, but catastrophic magical experimentation wasn't what she had in mind. Soon, Jamie is dragged into Sarina's life, to the detriment of her relationship with Ro, a fellow academic who is rightfully suspicious of Sarina and the effect she has on Jamie.
When Ro finds out about the magic, the relationship breaks, and now Jamie has to face her problems alone.
Those problems keep mounting. Jamie is working on a dissertation about a 300 year old "ladies' novel" that promises to reveal some profound truth about the life of its author and her challenge to the role that she finds herself confined to as a woman, but it's slow going.
Jamie's advisor is at pains to remind her that there are dramatic changes in the offing to the university, and that Jamie had best get that thesis in *soon*. Meanwhile, the Men's Rights Activist bro in Jamie's class keeps upping the ante, mixing disruptive "just asking questions" behavior with thinly veiled transphobic digs (Jamie is trans, a fact that is woven around her relationship to her mother and to magic).
Anders tosses a *lot* of differently shaped objects into the air, and then *juggles* them, interspersing the main action with excerpts from imaginary 18th century novels (which themselves contain imaginary parables) that serve as both a prestige and a framing device. There's a lot of queer joy in here, a hell of a lot of media theory, and some very chewy ruminations on the far-right mediasphere.
There's romance, heartbreak, danger and sacrifice, and most of all,there's that ambiguous magic, which gets realer and scarier as the action goes on.
This is a wonderful magic trick of a novel from a versatile author whose work includes YA space opera, hard sf adventure stories, and a wealth of brilliant short stories. It's a remarkably easy novel to read, given how much very difficult stuff Anders is doing in the writing, and it lingers long after you finish the last page.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, head of the Technological Defense Division at Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of attempting to lure minors for sexual purposes, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police D…
NATO chief says that Russia produces as much ammo in 3 months as all of NATO does in a year.
Euronews fact checked the statement and found that ammunition production may have been approximately four times more than that of the NATO Alliance in 2024.
On paper, NATO’s economy is 25 times bigger than Russia’s, once again illustrating that GDP measure doesn't tell you much of anything about the real economy.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly said that Moscow’s annual ammunition production capacity is four times greater than that of the western alliance.
oh! Nevermind I lied. I couldn't make the connection because those niggas changed the art style like every other episode so I can't identify the characters on appearance alone.
season 2 and 3 had a relatively similar style, I liked the style changes between seasons because they kind of reflected the audience.
The very simplified style of the first one fit with how everyone thought him being a cynical socially awkward weirdo was actually very cool, then the style got more detailed in the latter seasons when they all start to grow up and move past cringe teenager things (though unfortunately plenty of the audience still thinks the show's message is that being unnecessarily cynical is very cool and healthy).
Carrefour : Il y a des produits Carrefour dans des magasins des colonies israéliennes, en Palestine Occupée ! Le Groupe Carrefour, distributeur multinational basé en France, est impliqué dans les crimes de guerre commis par le régime israélien d’occupation, de colonisation et d’apartheid à l’encontre du peuple palestinien en raison d’accords de franchise signés avec deux sociétés israéliennes de grande distribution qui ont des magasins dans les colonies israéliennes illégales.
L’État israélien rejette le droit international. La majorité des gouvernements dans le monde ne fait rien pour l'en empêcher ou l'aide dans ses méfaits. C'est pourquoi...
Dang, I didn't think he'd lose or anything, but even being up against over 200 other candidates, #Poilievre still got 80% of the vote in Battle River-Crowfoot — just 2% less than the dude who left the job so that the by-election could be held to parachute Poilievre in the first place. No one's mad about that, I guess; they're all like "yeah this dude putting us through another election is definitely better than 200 other people." Rural #Alberta is so cooked.
THE CON IS ALWAYS THE SAME. FIRST, THEY WEAPONIZE FEAR AROUND AN INVISIBLE THREAT. THEN THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES WHO HAVE THE SPECIAL EQUIPMENT TO SEE OR MEASURE THAT INVISIBLE THREAT. THEN THEY USE YOUR FEAR-INFUSED MIND LIKE A YO-YO, TO CONTROL YOU AND MAKE YOU DANCE LIKE A CIRCUS MONKEY BASED ON THREATS THAT NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
POLITICIANS AND WORLD LEADERS PRETEND TO HATE EACH OTHER TO DIVIDE THE MASSES AND KEEP THEM DISTRACTED WITH SCRIPTED PERFORMANCES. BUT THEY ALL BELONG TO THE SAME SECRET SOCIETIES, HAVE DINNER TOGETHER, ATTEND THE SAME RITUALS/OCCULT CEREMONIES, AND LAUGH AT THE PEOPLE WHO BUY THE THEATRE
They can't eliminate child pornography -which fuels child trafficking - but can censor every post you make.
They can contact trace everyone you've met in a year, but can't locate anyone who steals & molests children.
They can tabulate 150 million votes over a commercial break, but can't count the votes in Maricopa County in an entire month
They can monitor every $600+ transaction or gun purchase for every American, but can't locate $ billions sent to Ukraine.
They can geofence your phone and show you ads based on private conversations, but can't locate damning evidence against the Biden Crime Family while holding the laptop for nearly three years.
Meanwhile, the ATF is a lawless band of thugs serving the regime's agenda of disarming all peaceable people.
i mentioned one of the rangers (I’m going to call them rangers for simplicity, but for your information, each season calls them something, not every season has the suffix ranger) in one of the seasons is gender neutral? but it seems not to be the case, i think the label of GNC would be better, she is a woman, played by a woman, but she’s not “traditionally feminine”, very cool
fun fact, this character, Rita Kaniska, the Papillon Ohger, was not gender cast, everyone could audition, and it happens a woman got the place
Since the Oval Office row with Zelensky in February, Trump has grown more critical of Putin and shown some signs of frustration as Russia repeatedly stalled on peace talks.
Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders has a release date and it's just three months away
Nintendo has announced that Kirby Air Riders will release on 20th November. The game is an exclusive for the Nintendo Switch 2, and is a sort of follow-up to Kirby Air Ride, a GameCube game from 2003 that has gained a cult following in the years since. The new game is being developed by Bandai Namco and Sora. Read more
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