Ken MacLeod

@amendlocke

Author: 17 science fiction novels. Prometheus, BSFA, Seiun, Sidewise awards winner; Hugo, Nebula, Clarke shortlisted. Leftist dad. Ostalgie for the Free World.

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    oh look what Companies House just sent me! a treat! 🔥🔥🔥buckle up because this one's spicy!

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    17 hours ago

    Prohibition - a gift to organised crime, grifters and criminal opportunists. It’s not as if there are no precedents to learn from.

    South Africa coronavirus lockdown: The alcohol and cigarette ban fuels violence and criminality
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  3. 9 hours ago

    Think 'late capitalism' is hard? Meet 'state monopoly capitalism' and be MIND BLOWN.

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    Can’t stop thinking about this one today. “There’s no evidence of corruption because officials appear to have spontaneously decided they should use public money to gift flight tickets, favours and business junkets to the PM’s mistress” feels like it sums up an entire era.

    As says, it’s perfect: the dictionary definition of corruption, presented as exoneration.
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    12 hours ago

    Ernest Mandel, a Belgian Jewish Marxist who escaped from the train to Auschwitz, popularized the term "late capitalism" in his book of the same name. Happily he also wrote many other things that would have annoyed people like Rafael Behr.

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    12 hours ago

    Oh, good article this.

    Jo Freeman’s “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” brilliantly details how movement organizations founded on “structurelessness” and “leaderlessness” can give rise to authoritarianism and invisible hierarchies. We reprint her classic essay here in full.
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    17 hours ago

    Limply Red

    The Why
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    16 hours ago

    Disappointing to see NY state go through with this ban. Depriving adults a valuable resource in reducing harm from smoking at this moment is a huge mistake.

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    15 hours ago

    Everybody's trying to get in on the spooky physics action

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    15 hours ago

    For day,. G is for from the A-Z of Hookland Influences AKA Growing Up Weird.

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    15 hours ago

    Working on something set in the past and worried about getting tripped up by the details? This Sunday is teaching "Historical Research for Writers." Come find out the whys, wherefores -- and the possible pitfalls!

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    Ian Dury and the Blackheads

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    17 hours ago

    New readers start here: what is a gothic romance? Well it's a passionate romance story with strong supernatural themes, all tied to an atmospheric and foreboding building which our heroine is compelled to flee. Actually it's a lot more complex than that.

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    Friendly Files

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    22 hours ago

    Please could any 2 of my Twitter Followers copy and repost? This lockdown period is especially hard for people with depression. Samaritans UK Tel no. 116 123. Just two. Any two. Say done. ❤️

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    May 21

    Not one person who went for a job interview in 2015 got the answer right to, "So where do you see yourself 5 years from now?"

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    18 hours ago

    50% off ALL our print books and 80% off ALL our ebooks until May 24th.

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    22 hours ago

    1. As we start to look towards online teaching come September, I’m proposing a new course with a new approach, entitled: ‘The British Civil Wars in Scotland: A Meme Thread’. Beginning with: 1638-1639

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    23 hours ago

    Thread explaining the need for funds to conserve this material for researchers. TL:DR know thy enemy.

    The name Mary Whitehouse is enough to make a BBC Director-General shiver. The media campaigner worked tirelessly to defend (subjective) standards of British decency. She held controversial views on swearing, sexual liberation, , and much more. And we have her diaries.
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    23 hours ago

    As says, it’s perfect: the dictionary definition of corruption, presented as exoneration.

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