I often find Cory Doctorow’s commentary interesting, and typically discover a few nuggets in each text that I find to be salient and useful. While my recent read of his March 12, 2026 Pluralistic article proved the same, there was one statement that hit me as being patently not
My dalliance with Amazon started around 2014. Even though I worked in e-commerce at the time,I didn’t do much online shopping. But 2014 was the year I got a Kindle-and the Amazon account that went along with it. I got Prime, I tried Kindle Unlimited, and
Ties of Power is the second book in the Clan Chronicles trilogy, all of which takes place inside of Julie Czerneda’s Trade Pact Universe. The book follows the characters and storyline introduced in its predecessor, A Thousand Words for Stranger. I very much enjoyed A Thousand Words for Stranger
Last year I started to make small, single-page zines that could be folded into an eight-page booklet. I made these zines in both full pages on my iPad (using procreate) and in single panels using my Supernote. They are a mix of: * Typing * Handwriting * Collage (icons, an old
Remnant Population has the unlikeliest of science fiction book heroines: an elderly woman. Sera Ofelia has lived much of her adult life on the company-town planet where she and her remaining family work. When the Company decides to shut down their town, everyone goes into cryo-sleep for a
I live half a mile from a data center. Sometimes I can hear it; usually when it’s very hot or very cold and they (I assume) have to turn on the extra generator banks. I lived in my house for years before I figured out that the sound I