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Proud Canadian ❤️‍🔥 horrified by the authoritarian practices and cruelty next door 😡 pro-Ukraine 🇺🇦 and pro-peace ☮️ Oxford comma fan 📖 art enthusiast 🖼️ and hockey mom 🥅 and 🐈 slave… yah, that sums it up. 🇨🇦🪵🏕️⛳️🥌⛸️🐱🥶🥶🥶

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 01/10/2026
Gas-fired power stations to run new US data centers will generate as much emissions of the entire United Kingdom. This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/348_...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every day things are being done at home and abroad by this regime that will take decades to undo and the stain of which will mark America forever Too few understand that permanent damage is being done to our country by the hour—even considering that we only know a fraction of it
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tod Maffin, on AMERICAN DICTATOR?, the board game invented by a group of Ontario teens – it's monopoly, with fascism – their website is eupgames.com #BoardGameNight www.youtube.com/shorts/dgCja...
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Sorry to interrupt family game night with the collapse of democracy
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired 20% of the military's generals, claiming, "No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors." This toxically masculine ethos sounds straight out of the handbook of Doug Wilson, Hegseth's Christian nationalist spiritual advisor.
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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Draganfly Drones is promoted as a Saskatoon success story. They are run out of Tampa, Florida with top Trump military appointees on the board. Don Jr is an investor. The PM committed to building a Canadian supply chain for our defence. This stinks. charlieangus.substack.com/p/stop-don-j...
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STOP DON JR FROM GETTING A CUT OF CANADA’S MILITARY BUDGET
Don Jr. has his fingers in a Canadian military contract obtained through Saskatoon-based Dragonfly Technologies.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms This isn’t a listicle. It’s an exhaustive, sourced report on the most under-attack election cycle in American history. Whatever the result in November—and we should all vote for the one we want—Trump *has* criminally rigged the system.
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PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms
Everyone should vote. Democrats may do well. But neither of those facts alters the reality of what the 2026 midterms are: a rigged event under assault by a fascist, his regime, and his foreign allies.
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lartigue@bsky.social 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026
Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/
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THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily Mills
Join Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Minister Anita Anand speaks about Nova Scotia and Canada at the UN General Assembly
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 26/09/2026
Finally got around to reading Dexter Filkins’s profile of Jared Kushner. A perfect asshole, and the embodiment of the silver-spoon elite who literally cannot distinguish their own affluence from the national interest, fanatically convinced that their obscene wealth somehow means everyone wins.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 26/09/2026
"In the regulated space, this kind of thing does not happen."
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Polymarket Is Being Used for Massive Money Laundering
A bombshell investigation revealed a massive amount of financial fraud roiling Polymarket, and executives couldn't care less.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gee, if only there was a way to prevent you from catching COVID. Oh wait....
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
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dollyz.bsky.social @dollyz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Phillippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good piece on this new variety of American fascist preacher. To my mind, there’s not much that’s original about these guys. This is just old school Christian Identity doctrine ca. 1940-1990s rebranded—the stuff Wesley Swift or Richard Butler were preaching. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Move aside, Nathalie. Today, the story at the White House is a story of man love. Do you need me to tell you who was the top and who was the bottom? My latest? www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-man-l...
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How Trump Just Showed Us Who’s Really on Top
Don’t tell Natalie, but unrequited love is in the air at the White House.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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lartigue@bsky.social 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I discussed the "Godzilla" El Niño and how it's likely to combine with human-caused warming to supercharge extreme weather in the months ahead with @caitrionaperry.bsky.social of #BBCNews, live from #ClimateWeekNYC
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Spicy Scorpio🪶🧡🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇪🇺 @nish57.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💪🇨🇦💪 youtube.com/shorts/X4aS9...
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Announcing: “Dear Canada”
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Watch the trailer for our new investigative documentary, 'Night Flower: Inside AIPAC's Fight For Influence.' It's one of the most important and revelatory films Zeteo has ever made, featuring exclusive interviews with AIPAC whistleblowers. Subscribe & watch next month: insideaipac.com
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Driving east from Kyiv to Kharkiv, there was no place to get gas from Poltava eastwards, because all of the stations had been destroyed by distant Russian drone operators. The Russians send drones at the pumps, causing explosions, killing attendants and customers. snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
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A Meditation on Gas Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The kind of 'hallucination' that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.” edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for giving a platform to Lauren Supplee to highlight this important issue. This is something I wrote about early in the Trump administration when DOGE was running rampant... substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted
Here’s How We Fix It
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lovewins7.bsky.social @lovewins7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's a gift article on why everyone should care: share.inquirer.com/Tt1WYq
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The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them
"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/09/2026
The weird cults behind AI doomer fantasies? Yeah, the Nerd Reich podcast covered that more than a year go. Here's our TESCREAL explainer with @xriskology.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tc...
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Silicon Valley's Scary New Cult Religion: TESCREAL, with Rev. Otis Moss III and Dr. Emile Torres
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Julia Dilliard💙🐴🇺🇦#Resist. DM's are blocked. @juliadilliard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This 👇
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 19/09/2026
French outpost off Canada in the spotlight as Macron hosts Carney on symbolic visit
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French outpost off Canada in the spotlight as Macron hosts Carney on symbolic visit
President Emmanuel Macron embarked Saturday on a symbolic visit to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French territory off Canada's Newfoundland, where he hosts Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The first-ever visit by a Canadian prime minister to the French archipelago in the North Atlantic comes as Carney marks a shift in Ottawa's foreign policy toward Europe amid growing tensions with the US. 
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“For the tech bros to remain dominant, their story has to change. So, Silicon Valley’s best storytellers no longer want our capitulation to their technology’s inevitability. They want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress.”
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we're so fucked Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
Receipts with @crampell.bsky.social is going LIVE today at 12:30 PM ET. Catherine and @jvl.bsky.social will cover the Fed's rate hikes, Warsh vs. Trump, and more.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Corporate profits just hit a record 13.2% of GDP. Wages simultaneously fell to a record-low 41.1%. This is the political economy of modern capitalism: record profits, a shrinking share for workers, and corporations spending billions on political donations and lobbying to maintain the status quo.
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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: One in five members of Congress reports investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds. Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry readsludge.com/2026/09/18/h...
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Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry
One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elon Musk’s political influence increasingly intersects with far-right and extremist movements worldwide. He has backed Germany’s AfD, endorsed Marine Le Pen and Vox, praised Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele. His activity shows how Musk's platform can amplify authoritarian politics across borders.
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Beyond AfD: Tracking Elon Musk’s Support for the Global Far Right
Elon Musk is backing the far right across multiple continents. From Germany’s AfD and France’s Marine Le Pen to Spain’s Vox, Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the tech billionai...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This dog lets its guard down completely with a trusted companion, and ethologists say that's not random. It's genuine social attachment.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/09/2026
The Nerd Reich wants to control the universe, but they can't control book readers. My book is #6 on Amazon's bestseller list—a month after publication! Please buy at your LOCAL bookstore or via Bookshop! Use this link to support my work: bookshop.org/a/109206/978...
screenshot of amazon chart showing Nerd Reich at #6
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