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Alex

You can’t understand the current political moment without understanding that a lot of nominally left-wing people and causes have been enlisted in the defense of extremely reactionary projects. Here’s the head of Fight For the Future, who today was ranting against age verification laws, saying we shouldn’t tax cryptocurrency because that’d be “surveillance capitalism” (my eyes are rolling back so far in my head that I just advanced two balls in a 9-ball game) #book #books #bookstoread #bookstodon

Fight for the Future, and creator of a song called Surveil-Jance Capitalism" that purports to be inspired by and about the same issues outlined by Zuboff-urged followers to contact their congressional representatives by stating that "decentralization is our best bet for having a future internet thats not based on surveillance capitalism and where people have basic rights. Cryptocurrencies are just sort of the tip of the iceberg, messy (and often scammy) proofs of concept for something much more important" (Greer 2021b). Zuboff's argument is turned upside-down and played against itself, so that the specific ideology, practices, tech-nologies, and even entities that brought us to where we are today, we are told, are the solutions to the problem they have created. Greer misstates the stakes of the bill, contending that compelling wealthy people who profit from cryptocurrency trading to pay taxes would interfere with "an internet that's not based on surveillance capitalism." Some commentators pushed back on Greer and asked for detailed explanations for why we should accept any of the propositions offered, but no explanations were forthcoming.
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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖

#Free #OnlineEvent: The Greatness of #SylviaPlath

Sarah Ruden joins #LibraryOfAmerica LIVE for a conversation inspired by her book I Am the Arrow: The Life & Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems, published this month by Library of America, with Pulitzer-winning poet Diane Seuss and pre-eminent Plath scholars Heather Clark and Amanda Golden. #Poetry #Literature #Plath #Books #Bookstodon

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EventbriteThe Greatness of Sylvia PlathWith Sarah Ruden, Diane Seuss, Heather Clark, and Amanda Golden
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Liminal Fiction

I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out J.C. Rycroft

Fantasy

JC Rycroft is a queer fantasy author living and writing on unceded Wadawurrung land in Australia. Their work draws on high and epic fantasy tropes, mixed with a dollop of queer romance, humour and wit, flawed but fabulous feminist heroes and diverse-in-all-the-ways characters, liberally sprinkled with philosophical concepts ...

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Stelliform Press

If whimsy, queer communities, justice & delightful language is what you're looking for in a poetry collection, Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE is now up on Netgalley. Netgalley users can download it here: netgalley.com/catalog/book/605

Small presses can't exist without reviewers. We sincerely thank you all.

www.netgalley.comSeed BeetleNetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.
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