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11 May
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Cyclopedia Exotica; Let's eat all the cicadas; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/11/uni…

#Pluralistic

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I'm doing two live events tomorrow, May 12:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, a panel for the Knight Center's Reimagine the Internet event
knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

* Book launch for Aminder Dhaliwal's Cyclopedia Exotica
crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Cyclopedia Exotica: Aminder Dhaliwal's cryptid history of our one-eyed cousins.



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11 May
Brood 17 - the unbelievable large swarm of 17-year cicadas - is already emerging in parts of America. This summer, Americans in the brood's path will experience a plague(ish) of locusts(ish), as the skies darken and the roads run slick with bug-guts.

1/ A giant cicada on a silver ...
Writing for @WIRED, @Knibbs brings us the cuisine of @cookinforpeace, a renowned chef who has pioneered "sustainable sushi" and is now foraging in DC for early B-17 bugs to turn into chow: pizza, paella, and sushi.

wired.com/story/eating-c…

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In much of the world, eating bugs is no big deal, and not just novelties like chocolate ants: think of chapulin tacos, the Oaxacan grasshopper delicacies. These are a serious seasonal delight in LA, and I can personally attest to their deliciousness.

latimes.com/food/dailydish…

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10 May
I had no idea what to expect when I picked up @aminder_d's debut graphic novel WOMAN WORLD; an hour later, I was a fan for life.

memex.craphound.com/2018/09/11/wom…

1/ The cover of Cylcopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal, featuri
Dhaliwal, an animator by day, started Woman World as an webcomic with a straightforward premise: men are extinct...now what?

A large proportion of the strips are episodic, with no overarching through-line - like Peanuts, or more to the point, Sylvia:

gocomics.com/sylvia

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As the series progressed, these one-off gags slowly built into a complex, multi-POV tale, one with real tension and payoff, sensitivity and pathos. Taken as a whole, Woman World is a like a Magic Eye painting made up of isolated gags, out of which emerges a fantastic story.

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10 May
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal; LA traveling toward free public transit; How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 6; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/10/com…

#Pluralistic

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I'm doing two live events next Wednesday, May 12:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, a panel for the Knight Center's Reimagine the Internet event
knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

* Launch for @Aminder_D's Cyclopedia Exotica for @chaptersindigo
crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal: A world turned upside-down.



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10 May
This week on my podcast, the sixth part of a seven part serialized reading of my 2020 One Zero book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, a book arguing that monopoly – not AI-based brainwashing – is the real way that tech controls our behavior.

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

1/ The cover of the paperback edition of 'How to Destroy Survei
The book is available in paperback:

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

and DRM-free ebook :

sowl.co/bm2F7c

and my local bookseller, @DarkDel , has signed stock that I'll drop by and personalize for you!

darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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Here's the podcast episode:

craphound.com/nonficbooks/de…

And here's part one:

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And part two:

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And part three:

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And part four:

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And part five:

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10 May
Los Angeles has a geometry problem. Multiply the space that even the smallest car occupies by the number of Angelenos who need to get from A-B and you'll see that there's no way that the city is compatible with private vehicles.

1/ An LA DOT 'COMMUTER EXPRESS...
Building more highways means clearing more live- and work-space, which pushes everything apart, which makes journeys longer, which requires building more highways...

Sadly for advocates of individual transit solutions, geometry has a socialist bias.

pluralistic.net/2021/03/21/ex-…

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(and no, you can't fix this by putting private vehicles in tunnels, no matter how fast the tunnels are - these are just shitty, inefficient subways that let plutes escape the company of their laboring neighbors during their morning commutes)

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