List: The New Age | Curated by Michael Long

Feb 17, 2025
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The New Age
Carlyn Beccia
The House Just Set the Stage for the Biggest Regulatory Heist in HistoryOne of the main goals of Project 2025 was to pass the Midnight Rules Relief Act. They are dangerously close to succeeding.
5d ago
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5d ago
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Cory Doctorow
MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizingIn the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.
Feb 5
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Feb 5
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Career Programming
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Dr. Derek Austin 🥳
The Real Reason for Tech LayoffsAre you familiar with non-disparagement?
Jan 22
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Jan 22
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Cory Doctorow
It’s pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actuallyJust end all the private-sector profiteering.
Jan 27
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Jan 27
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The Future is Electric
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Michael Barnard
Tesla’s Cybercab For USA’s Dysfunction, Will Cause CongestionPutting an awful lot more single passenger vehicles on US roads doing multiple trips per passenger journey will increase congestion
Dec 15, 2024
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Dec 15, 2024
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Books Are Our Superpower
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Linda Caroll
We Can Stop Blaming Our Phones For Our Struggle To FocusStolen Focus by Johann Hari made me angrier than I’ve been in a long time and it’s absolutely a must-read
Dec 13, 2024
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Dec 13, 2024
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The Future is Electric
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Michael Barnard
China Set For Rapid Decline In EmissionsDropping steel and cement manufacturing, electrification and rapid renewables build out means plummeting emissions
Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”Armageddon tired of this bullshit.
Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
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Lessig
When words lose their meaning: “Efficiency”Imagine you walk into a modal Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The lighting is bad; the lines are long; the people are miserable. Some…
Nov 23, 2024
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Nov 23, 2024
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Barbara Powell
The Struggle of Boys and Men, and How Girls and Women are Ruining Everything
Oct 2, 2024
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Oct 2, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollarWe don’t tax billionaires to fight the national debt. We tax billionaires to fight BILLIONAIRES.
Oct 21, 2024
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Oct 21, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Of course we can tax billionairesThey disguise their demands (“don’t tax billionaires”) as observations (“it is technically impossible to tax billionaires”).
Oct 15, 2024
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Oct 15, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Lina Khan’s future is the future of the Democratic Party — and AmericaIs the Harris administration committed to the American people, or billionaire donors?
Oct 11, 2024
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Oct 11, 2024
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The Environment
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Ricky Lanusse
The Year Hurricanes Went CrazyAfter back-to-back devastating superstorms Milton and Helene, the blame can only point one way
Oct 11, 2024
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Oct 11, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolistClinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
Oct 2, 2024
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Oct 2, 2024
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Ossiana Tepfenhart
We Have A Terrifying Infantilization Problem No One Is Talking AboutA society with no consequences or risks is a sitting duck.
May 21, 2024
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May 21, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
There’s no such thing as “shareholder supremacy”When “fiduciary duty” means “whatever I wanted to do.”
Sep 18, 2024
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Sep 18, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Marshmallow LongtermismMy latest Locus Magazine column.
Sep 4, 2024
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Sep 4, 2024
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Ossiana Tepfenhart
The Sad, Sad Truth About Why Ex-QAnoners Won’t Be The Same AgainThis is a grim reminder to loved ones: your buddy has been brainwashed.
Aug 27, 2024
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Aug 27, 2024
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Jonathan Poletti
Christians want everyone know the Olympics offended themLet’s look at a religious uproar
Jul 27, 2024
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Jul 27, 2024
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