“When there is no longer any place to talk to each other, politics becomes a face-off between the isolated individual and the grand narratives of the media – and in this face-off, discourses that offer simple answers have a structural advantage,” the study adds.
Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart
I don't remember where I found this, but it still makes me laugh every time.
43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian
by Emily Temple
Short stories at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/634