@pluralistic

Somewhere in Norway there's a metal band called "Radium Suppository."

I don't know if this is true; I just really, really want it to be.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/#this-too-shall-pass
https://craphound.com/news/2026/02/08/all-laws-are-local/

#pluralistic #craphound #metal

"There's a reason that fascists attack unions first. It's because the opposite of fascism is solidarity."

#CoryDoctorow, 2025

https://craphound.com/news/2025/10/25/enshittification-with-ed-zitron-at-the-seattle-public-library/

#podcasts #Craphound #unions #solidarity

Cory Doctorow believes that the economic crash that will ensue when the "AI" bubble finally bursts will make the GFC look like a mild wobble. Worse, there's nothing any of us can do except burst the bubble as quickly as possible, to reduce the scale of the damage. Bleak stuff, but his logic is hard to fault;

https://craphound.com/news/2025/10/06/the-real-economic-ai-apocalypse-is-nigh/

#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #CrapHound #AI #EconomicCollapse

published excerpts of issues 3&4 to dotchke.com

should i publish them in full on itch.io ?

#art #1bit #blackandwhite #pixelart #ドット絵 #oc #픽셀아트 #lowres #dessin #ditherpunk #doodle #icon #monochrome #zine #perzine #1bitart #digitalart #illustration #dotchke #craphound #fanzine

Crossing the Pod Streams is always entertaining.

This time I'm listening to #YanisVaroufakis heaping high prais on @pluralistic for his books, blogs, and podcasts, on the #NewBooksNetwork:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/technofeudalism

(Doctorow of course has been turning up all over the place as he book tours, as well as on his own #Craphound podcast, of which I too am a fan.)

“Banksy on Advertising” quote that begins “People are taking the piss ...” (2012)

Often cited as "Banksy on Advertising", the passage beginning "People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small..." actually borrows heavily from a 1999 essay, "Death, Phones, Sissors" by Sean Tejaratchi published in the zine Crap Hound.

Gawker noted this in 2012 (https://gawker.com/5892332/viral-banksy-quote-on-advertising-plagiarizes-1999-zine-essay), though the passage still turns up routinely as credited to Banksy alone, as in on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/461383-people-are-taking-the-piss-out-of-you-everyday-they

https://web.archive.org/web/20120314093434/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

#Banksy #advertising #TakingThePiss SeanTejaratchi #CrapHound