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https://nowtopians.com/work-and-the-economy/ai-risk-and-work
AI, Risk, and Work - Nowtopian
Feb 12, 2025 - I’ve spent a lot of years writing about work, technology, revolution, organizing, politics, etc. From the early days of Processed World (1981-1994) to my...
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https://nowtopians.com/general-musings/forgotten-futures-in-seattle
Forgotten Futures in Seattle - Nowtopian
Feb 12, 2025 - Had a sweet trip to Seattle for Adriana’s birthday over Thanksgiving weekend. She won some hockey tickets at a curling bonspiel so we went to see “our”...
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https://nowtopians.com/history/what-the-hell
What the Hell - Nowtopian
Jun 20, 2025 - I’ve been extremely reluctant to write anything for months. We are drowning in bullshit. The maelstrom of AI-generated slop on all social media platforms is...
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https://nowtopians.com/general-musings/a-numbing-spectacle
A Numbing Spectacle - Nowtopian
Sep 25, 2024 - I’ve been away from the blog again, this time absorbed in preparing some new content for a 2nd edition of Hidden San Francisco, forthcoming in 2025.
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https://nowtopians.com/book-reviews/history-were-soaking-in-it
History… We’re Soaking in It! - Nowtopian
Oct 3, 2024 - Last December I wrote a bit about my discovering more deep history around the Pacific. I neglected to mention then my pal Tina’s remarkable atlas Sea Change:...
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https://nowtopians.com/work-and-the-economy/whither-modern-life
Whither Modern Life? - Nowtopian
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https://nowtopians.com/general-musings/as-darkness-engulfs-us
As Darkness Engulfs Us - Nowtopian
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https://nowtopians.com/nature-and-me/things-are-in-the-saddle-and-ride-mankind
“Things Are in the Saddle, and Ride Mankind” - Nowtopian
Jan 2, 2025 - So said Ralph Waldo Emerson in the middle of the nineteenth century. As we proceed into the glowering gloom of the coming years, I always find it...
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