douglas rushkoff
@rushkoff
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I'm off for now. This platform no longer tends to engender productive conversations. Website: Mastodon: @Rushkoff @social .coop Bluesky: @Rushkoff
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Why I left Twitter/X and where to find me.
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I am finally in Wired:
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I just got to do Majority Report w Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. What a great show. I love a no-holds-barred conversation. Especially nice for the focus on how libertarianism is prone to abstraction and fantasies of escape.
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I just recorded a fabulous conversation for
@TeamHumanShow
with
@NaomiAKlein
about her new masterwork, Doppelganger. I'll try to wait until its 9/12 release to post it. I feel so privileged to be in a position to do this, and enriched as a result.
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I insisted I had not done anything. That it was pure coincidence. An old man put his forehead against my forehead, his nose against my nose, smiled, and said “Coincidence is the skill of a great storyteller.”
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By creating a regulatory body at which the biggest players get seats at the table, they can develop legal hurdles that effectively block new, less capitalized players from participating at all.
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I got to go on my favorite podcast!
🚨 EPISODE 305: Bloodless Hype Machines 🤖 Prof
@rushkoff
& TA talk what’s real & what’s fake about the AI publicity push, the next phase of the internet, and human connection in the oppressive techno-future 🖥️
Full ep:
Trailer:
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Yay. Some people are finally accepting what I was arguing back in my 1996 book Playing the Future. In many kids, what we are calling ADD is an *adaptive* response to a world in which their attention has become a commodity.
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If you're freaked out about Artificial Intelligence and the replacement of human labor, values, and meaning systems, please take a look at (or listen to) my 2018 book about what was coming and how to respond, Team Human.
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My dinner with Andre! Inspirational actor and fellow WWNorton author, at the Norton 100th anniversary party. Books live.
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"I Will Not be Autotuned" A new talk, my last talk about Survival of the Richest and - more importantly - what comes next, for the great people at All Tech is Human. It was like a homecoming, and drew out a radical candidness I hadn't expected.
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The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration. (My SXSW 2023 talk was just posted!)
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Our kids are more aware of the social cues and memetic layering in digital spaces than we are. Rather try to insulate them from what we fear about digital culture, we need to retrieve and share with them what we value most about critical thinking.
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Wake up! GaslitNation invited me to help shakes us from the disinfo-trance. Part one of a fun and scary conversation about money, technology, and self-delusion. If one can't gaslight themself, they can always build an AI to do it for them...
As our next guest shows, Billionaire Bunkers are a stunning exercise in self-delusion. This is part one of our interview with Douglas Rushkoff, an author and documentarian on the frontlines of understanding the impacts of technology and tech billionaires:
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Ever get Naomi Klein confused with another Naomi? Her new book, Doppelgänger, transforms our media mirror images from dire threats into opportunities for empathy and triggers for emancipation. A stunningly satisfying literary triumph.
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Will Wheaton, the best audiobook reader ever, performs my friend Cory Doctorow's acclaimed, entertaining yet horrifying new novel about a crypto money-laundering conspiracy. (No DRM, however, so Amazon won't sell it.)
*Red Team Blues* is my next novel, a
#PostCyberpunk
anti-finance finance
#thriller
; it's a major title for my publishers
@TorBooks
and
@HoZ_Books
, and it's swept the trade press with starred reviews all 'round. Despite all that,
#Audible
will not sell the
#audiobook
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The hidden history of modern machine intelligence has more to do with medieval poetry and Russian folktales than the myths being told in Silicon Valley. A very different conversation about AI with Dennis Yi Tenen, author of Literary Theory for Robots.
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I'm Time Person of the....Week! They're doing a new interview podcast hosted by the brilliant
@CharlotteAlter
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"Creative destruction resulted in something more like destructive destruction. The new industry didn’t replace the old one with something better; it just destroyed everything in the path of its exit strategy."
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"If the justification for the existence of the über-rich is that we are slowly progressing toward an earthly utopia, then why do so many of these billionaires seem so keen to escape?" New review of Survival of the Richest by
@garethsouthwell
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"Creatives don’t wait for the right moment to be creative, they create the right moment by spending time on their craft."
@HalaNAlyan
on Medium:
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Keep AI’s accountable by giving them individuality…and incentives to report on each other when one misbehaves? Fascinating thoughts from bold & brilliant science and sci-fi writer
@DavidBrin
. Plus, a monologue about burnout, depression and microdosing.
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If we want to change the climate from industrialism to something more human centered, we don't do it by manipulating or programming people. That only exacerbates the problem. It’s an artifact of the dominating, colonialist mindset of the social programmer.
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DRM free version of Cory
@Doctorow
necessary book on the process of enshittification of Internet platforms, and how to de-enshittify them and our world.
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If you happen to be at SXSW, or want to check their livestream, I am speaking in half an hour about “The end of the billionaire mindset: a celebration”. Hilton Ballroom H.
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Robert Anton Wilson's Life and Thought Crimes, on the new
@TeamHumanShow
with RAW biographer Gabriel Kennedy. Did we get stuck in the Chapel Perilous? Did Operation Mindfuck work too well? What would be RAW's message to QANON?
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"The fact that a person can be best manipulated by thinking of them in mechanistic and behavioural terms does not mean that they are thereby essentially programmable machines. Behaviorism and materialism are not facts but assumptions."
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A grad program for those who aspire to be the next Reverend Billy, YesMen, Ali Ferzat, Midianinja, Jenny Holzer, Elevator Repair Service, Museum of Morbid Anatomy, Dr. Sharmell Bell, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, or San Fransciso Mime Troupe...
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What if our most probable path to a sustainable future is not engineering, but magic?
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Let the robots do certainty. We humans are at our best when we can stay in the unresolved space of uncertainty. And it turns out there's scientific evidence supporting this.
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Librarians rule. Vermont's
@jessamyn
West on libraries, community technology, and why local beats scale. (She also owns Metafilter.)
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AI Panic = AI Hype? Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus on the new Team Human, plus a monologue from me on how tech bros' new calls for AI regulation are really just a coordinated money grab.
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Can we use large language models creatively instead of simply being replaced by them? A conversation to combat AI doomerism, on the new Team Human.
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Hoy es el día! Gracias a Capitan Swing! Hola España!
Douglas
@Rushkoff
, escritor: “La élite tecnológica se prepara para el apocalipsis, ve cerca el fin de la civilización”. Disecciona en su último libro la mentalidad de los milmillonarios del sector tecnológico y su oscura visión del mundo. Por
@ManuGPascual
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Another great article-as-thread by my hero
@doctorow
It's a big day for users of
@CreativeCommons
images:
@Flickr
has declared zero tolerance for
#CopyleftTrolls
, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in their image credits. 1/
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What do mushrooms and the blockchain have in common? With any luck, more than you might think. Indeed, mycopunk rules! Hear
@jeffemmett
on imagining mycelial futures, as well as my new favorite band
@formidableveg
on the new
@TeamHumanShow
.
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"The eugenic understanding of human beings explains why someone like Jeffrey Epstein funded scientists of Dawkins’s ilk: it helped him justify that his victims were just soulless things." new monologue on the value of a magical world view
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Hollywood's future belongs to people, not machines! Sci-fi author and futurist
@MadelineAshby
rips AI a new output on the new
@TeamHumanShow
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It's time to talk about TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. Émil P Torres on the new
@TeamHumanShow
- ( . .
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Journey to the upside-down with
@NaomiAKlein
as we stare into the conspiratorial mirror and learn more about ourselves than we might expect. Let's all meet our Doppelgangers on the new
@teamhumanshow
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Can anyone guess who this is playing Schroeder in the production of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown that I directed in 1977?
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I'm doing a free lecture and gathering in Japan, including a book party! My first and, likely, only visit in this lifetime. I'd love to meet you. October 17.
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For any fellow Succession fans. (friend link)
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"AI’s are like children, and will model who we really are more than who we say we are." (free link to my new Medium piece):
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Awe opens us to the fuller realization that our individual and collective identities are mutually reinforcing.
Friend link:
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We think neoliberalism is characterized by individualism, but privileges of family and class actually become even more important. People from Silicon Valley knew that. - Brilliant author Malcolm Harris is on the new Team Human!
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AI-driven, techno-solutionist, eugenic capitalists assert the probable. If we want to keep things alive, we must instead assert the possible.
My monologue about memes as magic on the new
@teamhumanshow
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Hey all. I'm helping start a new experimental MA track at CUNY/Queens College in Media Arts and Performance. All are welcome to apply (between now and June 15). What's it about? Depends on who comes...
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I signed on to show my support for the Internet Archive, libraries’ digital rights, and an open internet with uncensored access to knowledge.
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I think this guy just figured out how Succession will end. This is just a prediction, but if true it's a spoiler as well:
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Hey Japan: I'm coming to Tokyo! My event - "The Battle for Digital Survival: Who Will Survive?" (how they translated "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires") - Tuesday Oct 17 at 2p, Hibiya Library and Cultural Center Convention Hall (B1F Large Hall).
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You guys are the best.
🎉 Happy
#BookBirthday
to SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST!
✍️ Douglas Rushkoff (
@rushkoff
/
@wwnorton
)
📚 Genre:
#SocialScience
/
#MediaStudies
Read our review →
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Oh shoot. Are we praying to the wrong gods?
@MitchHorowitz
brings the
@TeamHumanShow
to some uncertain places...
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Does anyone else think that this action is meant as Taylor's response to the request by LA union workers for her to cancel LA's shows? I think she means to show that she can do good for workers by not canceling her shows.
Taylor Swift gave bonuses totaling over $55 million to each person working on her show — from dancers to sound technicians, catering to riggers, and more
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Nice little interview at SXSW. I will try to get a copy of my talk posted soon ("The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration"). It was a great time and great timing (given the SVB fail), and the wonderful Chelsea Manning
@xychelsea
came!
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I just happened to begin recording the audiobook version of the afterword I wrote from Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's autobiography NonBinary on 3/23/2023 at 2:30pm.
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@BigMeanInternet
@WIRED
Quite an honor to be taken so seriously by you, Malcolm. And I appreciate you seeing I was never a tech bro at all, but always trying to find a way for tech to be a distributive force. By the late 90s I was already doing critical works like Coercion and Merchants of Cool.
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Imagine a world where you wake up in the morning, log onto a platform, and bid to be the lowest paid gig worker. It's here. Marina Gorbis and Jerry Davis talk Equitable Enterprise on the new
@TeamHumanShow
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Molly Jong-Fast is the world’s best politics podcaster.
Interviewing
@rushkoff
for tomorrow’s
@FastPoliticsPod
and he’s debunking a lot of code drama and the truth about the desantis spaces debacle
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Can comedy denaturalize power? Are unidentified arial phenomena mainstreaming the weird? And what is the Mussar movement? All is answered on the new Team Human Show - recorded live salon. (Ad free, too, while we figure out why the ads aren't working!)
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I am speaking at SXSW on Saturday at 2:30p.
"The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration"
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Going on CSpan/BookTV at noon EST for two hours! It's a call-in, so please come and let's talk! About books, my books, writing, tech bro lunacy....All are welcome.
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@SolarPunked
@Holochain
I am not hopeless about tech. Just the way it's been used. So I'm focusing more on culture and ethics now, which I think are upstream of any particular tech development approach. And yes, I've written very favorably and hopefully about
#holochain
! An update would be great....
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Is magic our most likely path to a sustainable future? A new monologue on the
@TeamHumanShow
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I'm on a panel about tech bro crazy with Cory Doctorow and France Winddance Twine at Saturday April 22 at noon!
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Looking at someone else’s Midjourney picture is a bit like listening to someone tell you about their acid trip. (free link)
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"Try as much as you can to put yourself in that person's head." Conspiracy researcher and
@QAnonAnonymous
collaborator, Annie Kelly on the value of engaging with conspiracy theory, on the new Team Human.
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"Despite the belief that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are detached from movements in the stock market or changes in monetary policy, the numbers tell a very different story." Molly White on how the biz press is again getting this wrong.
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There's a reason we pick such old candidates for president: we can't take the patriotism of younger ones seriously! It's time for politicians to grow up and admit that government - even America - will always be a compromise. A new Team Human monologue:
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Must we transcend the idea that we can "fix" the environment in order to finally participate as members of a living world? Greenpeace founder Rex Weyler offers some straight talk on the new
@TeamHumanShow
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The Tragedy of No Commons. A new monologue on the
@TeamHumanShow
- followed by an interview with
@NaomiAKlein
about her new book, Doppelganger.
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Preorder SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST in paperback between 9/6 and 9/8 on and get 25% off. Use code PREORDER25 at checkout.
#BNPreorder25
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Do your customers know more about your products than you do? A new monologue from me about how we measure ourselves and employees in terms of utility instead of true passion. And why that's a problem.
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@brianstelter
This was all in response to recent events on Succession. Logan Roy's death has Rupert Murdoch spooked and ready to make amends.
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We are all in drag, all the time. A particularly fabulous Team Human with the great Fenton Bailey.
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Nice podcast interview about the billionaire mindset, from down under with Sarah Wilson:
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What do people even mean these days by the terms capitalism and fascism? This question and more about how thinking feeling humans can have a positive impact on our collective fate on the new call-in TeamHumanShow.
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@walterkirn
This is so f'd up. Ultimately, it works against its own intent by helping prove one of the campaign's main claims: media is spooked by RFK and incapable of arguing against his points. (Because media can't cross certain lines, admit doubt in established dogma, etc.)
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@DanielleNicki
Yeah - this is the premise of my book Survival of the Richest, which looks at how that mindset came about. I'm happy to send you a copy!
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@rpachter
So kind of you to say. It's an insightful and humbling piece. They still framed it as more of a 'turn' in my thinking than I believe it is. I was complaining about the corporatization of the net by '94. But I suppose I'm less hopeful about us saving digital tech or it saving us.
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Are you succumbing to "meta-trolling"? A new TeamHuman monologue why I believe at least 90% of us can focus primarily on the challenges within our reach, and regard the aggravating news from afar as a distraction from addressing the here and now.
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We humans are all part of the same goo. Kevin Slavin shares the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing — and what our community poop can teach us about the game of life.
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Singer, songwriter, and producer behind Zola Jesus helps us recognize the power of the arts to reconnect us to the forces of nature.
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This was the story a couple of days ago:
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@xriskology
@EliSennesh
Hey Emile! Thanks for the shout out. Yes, what I am calling “The Mindset” is pretty exactly TESCREALism. Please let’s talk asap. Wanna come on Team Human?
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@justanotherX66
Actually the opposite. Just joined “ivory tower” of public college. Original GenX of Coupland, Linklater, Groening. Edited GenX reader. We are no longer considered GenX. That’s how X we are. :)
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@MitchHorowitz
@Medium
@teamhumanshow
You made *my* day. This was actually a scary piece to post. But it's time for a shift.
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@michaelgarfield
Then that was some positive kvetching! I can't tell you how many times I've had to answer the question "what happens to the people working at the tool company?" As if we work to serve the marketplace rather than to produce things people actually need.
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Does mycelia's power to connect make them less a personal plant medicine than a collective one? Perhaps there's no way to take mushrooms alone... Microdosing the World, with Mastering Microdosing author Paul Austin on the new TeamHuman:
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@xriskology
@ShirKi
@citizencyborg
@profoundlyyyy
@JacquesThibs
It's not a conspiracy theory, or even a conspiracy. It's a mindset. A confluence of philosophies and agendas. A Musk or Thiel is influenced by Cosmism, Libertarianism, and eugenics even if they never met Fedorov, Rand, or Epstein. It's not a back room but an ideology.
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Actually, that is on *next* week's Team Human! The one for this week is about the "Scaled Golem": Corporations win on the abstract plane - that's their turf. Don’t give up your local, home-field advantage by fighting for change in the abstracted ether.
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My great friend Greg Barris has a new comedy special. Very healing for soul.
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On Feb. 22, comic series Blue Book by
@JamesTheFourth
,
@Oeming
, and
@adityab
comes to print for the first time! To celebrate the launch, Dark Horse and
@ReadTinyOnion
present variant covers for issue
#1
, including a glow-in-the-dark edition! Details:
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