pluralistic, 1 month ago

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us": A brilliant technorealist teen thriller/murder mystery.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112280902985876765

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Hey look at this

• Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/schools-were-just-supposed-to-block-porn-instead-they-sabotaged-homework-and-censored-suicide-prevention-sites (h/t Naked Capitalism)

• What’s next for me… https://dangillmor.com/2024/04/14/whats-next-for-me/

• All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named ‘Wayne’ https://www.404media.co/bad-amazon-bosses-wayne/

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

#20yrsago Mickey Mouse’s dwindling brand https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/arts/film-building-a-better-mouse.html

#15yrsago Wired publishes documents detailing the FBI’s spyware https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fbi-spyware-pro/

#15yrsago Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact https://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/no-eye-contact-glasses/

#15yrsago Man assaulted by police during G20 died from internal bleeding, not heart-attack http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8004222.stm

#15yrsago Sales booming in remote-kill devices for cars sold to poor credit-risks https://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/17/aa.bills.shut.engine.down/index.html

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

#15yrsago Canadian Members of Parliament voting records (finally) online https://web.archive.org/web/20090419144031/http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/620435

#15yrsago Jokes from the Cultural Revolution https://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2009/04/jokes-from-great-proletarian-cultural.html

#15yrsago Swedish Pirate Party membership surges after Pirate Bay verdict https://web.archive.org/web/20090420055230/http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.piratpartiet.se%2F2009%2F04%2F17%2Finternet-kokar-piratpartiet-har-nu-fler-medlemmar-an-fp%2F&sl=sv&tl=en

#15yrsago Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature https://memex.craphound.com/2009/04/17/google-book-search-settlement-gives-google-a-virtual-monopoly-over-literature/

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18+ steinarb, 1 month ago

@pluralistic I had heard that title many years ago.

I had the feeling it was from a short story in a science fiction collection...?

So I googled and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Human_Voices_Wake_Us

Could have been either the Lisa Tuttle story (it's from 1973, I think...?) or the Lewis Shiner story...?

The wikipedia article also had the origin of the phrase: T.S. Eliot

18+ steinarb, 1 month ago

@pluralistic Lewis Shiner has put his short stories online during the mid-naughts, so there is his take on that title: https://www.fictionliberationfront.net/humanv.html