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In 1939, Dorothy Parker wrote about her social conscience in an essay called "Not Enough." I think I knew first what side I was on when I was about five years old, at which time nobody was safe from buffaloes. It was in a brownstone house in New York, and there was a blizzard, and my rich aunt--a horrible woman then and now--had come to visit. I remember going to the window and seeing the street with the men shoveling snow; their hands were purple on their shovels, and their feet were wrapped with burlap. And my aunt, looking over her shoulder, said, "Now isn't this nice that there's this blizzard. Now all those men have work." And I knew then that it was not nice that men could work for their lives only in desperate weather, that there was no work for them in fair. That was when I became anti-fascist, at the silky tones of my rich and comfortable aunt.

Dorothy Parker, antifascist, heroine

Screenshot from page 211 of Let’s Move the Needle

I feel like this paragraph from my book is pretty appropriate for today.

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Google ending AI arms ban incredibly concerning, campaigners say The tech giant previously ruled out applications that were "likely to cause harm".

AI was never going to be used to help; helping people has never been lucrative enough for the likes of capitalism. It was never actually developed to make our lives easier or more streamlined. It was a lure to convince people to put aside their humanity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

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“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

Tank girl wanting a better world.

My daughter.

List of Banned books

Pastel sunset

Intentional or accidental, it matters not. Negligence will cost you in the end.

Welcome to life, where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter, but we’ll fight to the death about it anyway.