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One of the contributing factors for the tough times in book publishing is how retail prices are fairly steady but all the costs of making a book have gone up, my analysis in @theconversation.com shows With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for the excellent editing theconversation.com/whos-eating-...

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Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.

submitted 33 days ago • 38 comments

Read this 👇👇👇

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

this is the kind of tech blogging no one does anymore and there should be way more of @willsmith.fun next.content.town/p/unfucking-...

submitted 88 days ago • 115 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 92 days ago • 317 comments

WIRED has been doing vital work. If you’re looking to support good journalism right now, subscriptions are cheap.

submitted 105 days ago • 103 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 106 days ago • 1075 comments

Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.

submitted 106 days ago • 41 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

submitted 106 days ago • 584 comments

match scheduling a little ridiculous with Djokovic v Alcaraz probably starting after 9:30 #ausopen

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Trump: Jeff Bezos came, Bill Gates came. Mark Zuckerberg came. Many of them came numerous times. The bankers have all come. Everybody is coming.

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Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

submitted 131 days ago • 135 comments

Only things i would disagree with here are that Trump is isolationist - see first term discussion of forces in mexico and recent canada joke. The US is just more isolated. Also that Trump isn’t in to uniforms - see red hats www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... n

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Everything I have cooked from this cookbook has been delicious and you feel like you have been welcomed into a homely kitchen full of a generous spirit - I could press this book upon everyone. Also it supports Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Time flies!

submitted 156 days ago • 171 comments