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• Finally got my July 4th print edition of The Onion, and I don’t know if this fake ad is regular Onion absurdism or an under-the-radar Mormon-adjacent joke.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: D&D is getting World of Warcraft and Star Wars crossovers

• 🔗 linkblog: How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit

• 🔗 linkblog: Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed recently:

• 📚 bookblog: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: Airplane! (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer