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Meanwhile, wealth inequality ratchets tighter and tighter each year, especially since the pandemic. The middle class erodes steadily, the wealthy control more and more wealth, and the poor grow both in number and in their precarity. To say nothing about desperation in the developing world.

These are not abstract truths. The statistics are more than just numbers in a spreadsheet. They reflect human experiences and traumas. They reflect a disparity of power, and they describe an everyday existence where wealth and corporate bureaucracies strip workers of agency and ignore their insights.

Newitz brings these dry facts to vivid life, depicting the frustration and casual humiliation of living each day under the control of someone who sees you as a tool to implement their edicts. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I had a full-body limbic response to some of the email subject lines that issue from Ronnie, a central corporate figure in the story.

Newitz brings an empathetic clarity to the experience of being employed. Anyone who has slotted into a corporate system whose executive team was far out of view will find themselves witnessed by this book.

The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz, wants to talk about social stratification

A speculative fiction author has four jobs: 1. Imagination. Find us a fresh lens. Show us a place we’ve never been, or a perspective on the mundane that we’ve never seen. Inject tangible energy into our imagination systems. 2. Timely insight. Help us understand our world in this

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“Jeff Winston” and “Hiraeth” of the White Art Collective Revealed: Ben Arvin and Mandi Gillespie of Bloomington, Indiana – Anonymous Comrades Collective

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NH, indoors, wearing a fit-and-flare cotton ankara dress in a bold flower print of lavender, olive green and black, with a matching green and yellow collar of thread-wrapped rope and matching gele and striped wrap.

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Minnesota House passes abortion shield bill to protect women from out-of-state bans - Minnesota Reformer

The Minnesota House passed a bill 68-62 on Monday that would shield women who travel to the state for abortions, as well as their nurses and doctors. It still needs approval from the state Senate and the signature of Gov. Tim Walz to become law. The “Reproductive Freedom Defense Act” (HF355/SF165) aims to block other […]