* “The Millions Will Live on, But the Indie Book Blog Is Dead.” Shoot. Am I dead?
* “Impeach Donald Trump,” note the source here.
* “Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.” There is much caterwauling in the media about privacy, Google, and Facebook. Using DuckDuckGo is one of the easiest and simplest ways of (marginally) increasing a person’s privacy. Yet almost no one does it (except me). What should we infer from that?
* “I work with kids. Here’s why they’re consumed with anxiety.”
* “The Rise and Demise of RSS.” I still use an RSS reader most days.
* “The Art of the Pan: What’s the Point of a Bad Review in 2019?” To warn readers?
* “Is This Higher Education’s Golden Age?” An interesting read but sort of wrong: higher education does have a curious stranglehold over many people’s lives, and yet its largesse is concentrated among a small number of people.
* Turns out that “Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most.”
* “Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems.’” By the way, it also looks like we are living through climate change’s worst-case scenario.
* Interview with poet and culture guy Dana Gioia.
* “Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal.” This is good news.
* “‘They Own the System’: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching Into Publishing.” This is not optimal in many ways, but I also don’t see an alternative. Book publishers and retailers have been complacent forever, and by the time they woke up (have they awoken?), it was too late.
* “China’s Looming Crisis: A Shrinking Population.” Maybe we ought to try harder to make sure we don’t face the same challenge.
* “Why do authors have to be ‘moral’? Because their publishing contracts tell them so. My compulsion to rub strangers up the wrong way in a political sense grows only more enticing.”
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