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Is Spooky Scary AI Going To Jump Out From Under Your Bed And Eat You?
and other epic Betteridge’s Law moments
Sophia McAllister
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Another study in Utopia: "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N K Jemisin
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin presents a utopia that is made real by hideous violence. This draws out questions about whether a utopia is still a utopia with one horrible exception, how we interact with the idea of “the better place”, and how
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A heady mix of futures in fine details and broad strokes
Reviewing 'In Other Worlds' by Liam Young
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After Starmer, After Burnham, After that...
In the 6 years between 2016 and 2022 Britain had 5 different Prime Ministers. Cameron bet big against Brexit and lost. May ran through fields of wheat as fast as she could away from having to debate Jeremy Corbyn. Boris Johnson “got brexit done”, got his pockets full and got
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The Renters' Rights Act: Do renters get more rights now?
Successes and failures of a non-reformist reform
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Bathtub Estrogen
doesn't exist and that's the point of the article
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Run A 101!
May the revolution make teachers and students of us all
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Thoughts on the anti-ICE resistance going on in Minneapolis right now? I find it very inspiring that so many people are openly defying ICE and the police state.
Response to a Tumblr ask
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Trans Organising: The Assembly Model
How we can start building dual power today
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Pluribus: On the ethics of picking an apple
I’ve written my thoughts on the new Vince Gilligan show Pluribus as a response to a tumblr ask that I got just after finishing the show, and have decided to share it here. Enjoy :) As a note, I got the ask and wrote the initial part straight after finishing
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The Lolita Express and other, more metaphorical vehicles of abuse
On the aspects of power that are broadly going uninterrogated in the Epstein case
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Frankenstein (The Creature) Does Not Exist
on alternate understandings of core cultural myths