Doctora Malka Older

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nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS •

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The Duke at Hazard is out tomorrow in e everywhere, print in the UK! (It is not out in audio or US print till November because publishers, don't ask me.) books2read.com/u/4A1xGA

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Amazon Prime Day is a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers, Senate review says

Amazon Prime Day is a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers, Senate review saysapnews.com A report released by Senator Bernie Sanders says Amazon’s popular Prime Day sales event has been “a major cause of injuries” for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the company's facilities across the U.S.

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The alternative is not "the technology goes away". The alternative is "the worst people in the world continue to have sole domain over the technology, instead of the people who can most effectively shape the way it develops so it is an enhancement to human creativity and not an usurpation of it".

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Paysage De Bretagne, 1896 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/834566

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KJ Charles

That said, I just published an entire novel about how Oxford University needs to fuck off, so who am I to talk.

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Three of my last four romance novels have had North American protagonists mired in feelings from high school. Not complaining, they were all terrific romances, just slightly wondering if someone needs to do a massive intervention on the high school system.

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It's a super lighthearted romance, very much in the Heyer But Gayer vein. If you need a break from reality, and I think you probably do, have at it.

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The Duke at Hazard is out on Thursday. Incognito duke! Disgraced gentleman! Regency road trip! Deceit! Gambling! Silhouettes! books2read.com/u/4A1xGA

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Since 2013, Toronto has worked to become more flood-resistant, but climate change is outpacing our efforts and the massive flooding occurring today makes it clear: our infrastructure was designed for a planet that no longer exists.

A decade ago, Toronto was underwater. Here's what's changed since the 2013 flood | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Flooded streets, destroyed basements and a GO Train stuck in so much water that passengers had to be ferried to dry ground in inflatable boats — 10 years after Toronto was pounded by a record-breaking storm, here's what's changed.

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Well, since I've badly sprained my foot/ankle and am barely able to stand, much less do anything else productive, I guess it's time to see if I can finally crack the extreme-burnout-induced reading slump I've been trying to get out of for two years.

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This week we’ve got THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN, next week is YELLOW JESSAMINE, last week we hope you enjoyed THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES.

Ooh, y’know what would be neat a sci-fi/fantasy anthology show where each episode adapts a different recent novella. I think I’d enjoy that quite well, thank you very much.

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This would be so dope! Some adaptations I'd be keen on: Ruin of Shadows The Border Keeper The Lies of the Ajungo Empire of the Feast Finding Echoes Ring Shout The Mimicking of Known Successes Between Blades Countess

Ooh, y’know what would be neat a sci-fi/fantasy anthology show where each episode adapts a different recent novella. I think I’d enjoy that quite well, thank you very much.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

It also outlines the need to cut off federal funding for any school that teaches "critical race theory," in the same breath. So, teach history the jingoistic way we demand or don't get funding. And erase queer people or we will pursue legal action.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

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Katharine Hayhoe

Also, I'm a renter in LA County -- humidity isn't a problem, but heat is. There are tons of smart ways to build houses and do landscaping that can reduce dependence on ACs. But they're not options for renters! Some people live in buildings that make the increasing heat even worse.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

Also Mayor Adams is 63 years old. Let's say he was 13 when his mom, allegedly told him to put his head in the fridge. That would have been 1973, it was much, much cooler. I am younger than Addams and NYC has materially gotten hotter in my life time, and in his.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

It then points people to cool spaces if they can't cool their homes. Cooling centers (which since many are libraries have been impacted by his budgets), museums, coffee shops. Because the body needs a break from the heat. and the longer heat goes on the more the body needs a break.

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Worth noting that his own health department suggests that the first line of defense for extreme heat is to "stay" cool and get an air conditioner. If you can't afford one they note the city has free programs to access one and to save on utilization costs to set it to 78F.

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

Hot Weather and Your Health - NYC Healthwww.nyc.gov

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(3/*) Redlining and heritage clauses in deeds didn't just deny Black folks the ability to have access to White neighborhoods, it also allowed White real estate developers to artificially shape markets for Black families seeking housing. It provided a lever to make Black housing more expensive.

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(1/*) Some useful examples: One of the reasons you see so many major colleges right alongside poor neighborhoods is because of a trend in the 40's-60's for cities to use schools as a reason to invoke eminent domain and steal land from otherwise flourishing racial enclaves at below market prices.

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Something I just saw come up in a TikTok: Folks really do fixate on racist systems being driven by "hate" without ever reckoning or even learning about the many ways those systems economically profited the oppressors. Segregation and Jim Crow and White Riots were all VERY profitable to oppressors.

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(2/*) Black farmers are rare today in part because concerted efforts were made to drive them off their land until they were either dead or willing to undersell just to escape, and in part because segregation created a barrier allowing communities to overcharge them for access to anything.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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After quashing congestion pricing, Hochul could screw over NYC’s subway riders yet again. The MTA wants to spend its remaining $$ on overdue maintenance, but Hochul is pushing for new transit lines. That’s a recipe for disaster. Me in CityLab www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Today on #SciFri

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Time for the keynote address at my shark science conference! #JMIH24

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wild they managed this given how low the top marginal rates are and the rat's nest of loopholes. just an ocean of money sloshing around at the top

The IRS reported this week they collected $1 BILLION in taxes owed by rich tax cheats thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act funding that provided them the additional staffing to pursue these cases. First up on the GOP agenda for the next administration is gutting the IRS.

#Infomocracy #PredictiveFictions

Answer: No. Polls are the ruin of democracy, disenfranchising citizens and commodifying both their views and the issues in favor of the biases of the pollsters and journalists who use them. Polls May Shape Biden’s Future. Are They Up to the Job? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/u...

Polls May Shape Biden’s Future. Are They Up to the Job?www.nytimes.com The president’s chances increasingly rely on the possibility that the polls are misfiring.