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Terms & Conditions• 3

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Viewing technology in the longue durée foregrounds how slavery undergirds conditions of contemporary extraction, surveillance, and the insistence on p

writing as a devotional practice• 2
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1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which m

you are not alone in the struggle• 6

writers have always struggled to write while living life under capitalism. you’re not alone. and yet brilliant writers wrote brilliant things and became known as brilliant writers. despite it all. so keep writing, and know, when it’s hard, there is strength in collective memory and survival.

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“— you know, I've either had a family, a job, something has always been in the way but now I've sold my house, I've found this place, a large studio,

The whole time I was practicing to be a writer, I always had a day job. Even after I got published, I didn’t quit my day job, just to be on the safe s

Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it’s a road to miser

This is how it works: You’ve always wanted to be a writer, but instead you decide you should become a health care worker. You go to school for four ye

dystopian studies• 1
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I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

technoskepticism• 30

“captur[ing] the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that might be necessary for [people] to critically interrogate technology and society.”

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“In someone's response to a prompt on the social media app, Somewhere Good, they mentioned "TV is the content between the ads". I never thought of it

capitalism requires exploitation and enslavement• 3
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Viewing technology in the longue durée foregrounds how slavery undergirds conditions of contemporary extraction, surveillance, and the insistence on p

cool tools & good algorithms• 3

websites that remind the internet can be a fun place to discover cool things

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Objects & Sounds - Every Mood is a Good Mood

narrative as the greatest tool for violence• 1
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re-learning time• 0
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