Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The camera kinda underplays it, but I paused halfway up (L: down, R: wonky uphill) the steepest and highest hill in our already steep township ostensibly to give you some fall colours, but really to catch my breath 000
Reposted by DubyedeeAndrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Horrendous. It's already hard enough to write a book, get an agent & sell a book. And now authors have to worry their unpublished mss are being fed into the stealing machine to generate blurbs, while real artists lose jobs in favor of AI-slop covers & the next gen of editors don't learn the trade.wired.comBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingWorkers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. 082
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Agreed! I tried to do my bit to raise its profile writing a lengthy appreciation of The Asset Class over here: wdclarke.substack.com/p/the-asset-...wdclarke.substack.comThe Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien (an Appreciation)How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself 010
Reposted by DubyedeeMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026With the spate of new trade books about data politics & too late capitalism, I fear this one might be getting lost in the shuffle. As important as Big Tech & Silicon Valley VCs are, you can’t understand the present without attention to the restructuring of capital around fund managers after 2008. 414138
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Symposia should limit themselves to 42 gallons of wine, else... consequences. 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When I was 12, a large nurses'conference my dad was attending (the only family holidays we got) rented all of Disneyland for an evening. I think we went on space mountain, the only real attraction, 20 times or more. 100
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Grasp, compréhension; Understand, verstanden: With the Socratic elenchus or dialectical question-answering, embodied beings strive, via an agon or wrestling with the metaphors they live by, to grasp (lay hold of), body forth a dynamic knowing-space from/under which to stand 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not the author's argument, but) this is also why AI summaries are not, and will never be the same thing as the *experience* of Plato's philosophical text or other work of art... (fr Thomas Cooksey's book, Plato's Symposium, a Readers' Guide) 110
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A map of Canadian fiction is just getting going, where you can discover novels by where they are set...look for, or request, your favourite titles here: canadian-literary-map.netlify.app 031
Reposted by DubyedeeDubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wrote 7.5k words (in what I call an "Appreciation") on Hettie O'Brien's book, The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself wdclarke.substack.com/p/the-asset-...wdclarke.substack.comThe Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien (an Appreciation)How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself 002
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wrote 7.5k words (in what I call an "Appreciation") on Hettie O'Brien's book, The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself wdclarke.substack.com/p/the-asset-...wdclarke.substack.comThe Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien (an Appreciation)How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself 002
Reposted by DubyedeeYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The AI Productivity Delusion: As with previous tech revolutions, it is natural to focus on AI's net effects: Will it create more than it destroys? But unlike previous eras of creative destruction, the real question this time is, “Create more of what?” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...project-syndicate.orgThe AI Productivity DelusionYanis Varoufakis sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it. 05628
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"folly often mistook itself for wisdom, ignorance gave itself airs of knowledge, and selfishness, turning its eyes upward, called itself religion." 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Generals playing the braggadocio at the outset (George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life) 110
Reposted by DubyedeeDubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Taxing the billionaires out of existence would be the most humane thing we could do for them—and us. (Eisenhower did it: why can't we?) (from Adam Becker's 2025 book, More Everything Forever) 122
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Taxing the billionaires out of existence would be the most humane thing we could do for them—and us. (Eisenhower did it: why can't we?) (from Adam Becker's 2025 book, More Everything Forever) 122
Reposted by DubyedeeCorona\Samizdat Press @coronasamizdat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Please be advised that since the untimely passing of Commandante Rick Harsch the new website is www.csindiepress.com and hopefully will open in November.csindiepress.comcorona\samizdat 163
Reposted by DubyedeeCorona\Samizdat Press @coronasamizdat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My name is Draxtor. Rick's wife gave permission to restart c\s. I recently deleted all my socials so you gotta ask AI if I'm qualified to run this 😆 . I will keep everyone posted on progress. Please also follow instagram.com/csindiepress Thank you for your patience! 042
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Time will tell! I so hope it returns (as coining it my one claim to fame!!) 120
Reposted by DubyedeeCorona\Samizdat Press @coronasamizdat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026website done = proof of concept! patience please: the earliest we start reopening the corona\samzidat store and make the back catalogue available will be NOVEMBER. Fingers crossed! 062
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026link and the book in question: wdclarke.substack.com/p/wemmick-ya... 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve considerably expanded this piece to include some ruminations on the perfect book for that questing, questioning 12-year-old in your life (in you), @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social ’s Another Now (2020)… 100
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Novella in question: "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton" (Not at all like Silas Marner, this is very frequently drily funny, a continual, uncorseted delight—as was Jane Austen's own irrepressible debut, Northanger Abbey) 010
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026An unfecundated egg (George Eliot's first novella, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)) 110
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Dispatch from the caveat emptor dept... On Resistance: A Manifesto by Curtis White (2026) (Book Review) wdclarke.substack.com/p/on-resista...wdclarke.substack.comOn Resistance: A Manifesto by Curtis White (2026) (Review)Dispatch from the caveat emptor dept... 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026On First Reading Forster’s First Novel wdclarke.substack.com/p/on-first-r...wdclarke.substack.comOn First Reading Forster’s First NovelNotes Toward A Necessary, Future Re-reading 021
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026☝️(From Oliver Stallybrass's Intro to Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread) 👇(A Room With a View) 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Bad tea + Horrible France + cranky mom ☛ Italy! Beauty!! (E.M Forster's journey of sublimation maybe not quite what Nietzsche had in mind with his dungheap-of-life ☛ floral- bouquet-of art prescription?) 100
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Meiselman: The Lean Years, by Avner Landes (Novel Review) wdclarke.substack.com/p/meiselman-... 022
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Laughter is the Measure. (Marginal note from EM Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread) 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Somewhat revised, a tad expanded: 4.5k words on the tyro (modernist) novel as psychomachia: wdclarke.substack.com/p/reading-th... 011
Reposted by DubyedeeBrían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026here you have some excrements of an aged mind. now hard. now loose. and always undigested (Montaigne, "On Vanity") 082
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Any other Curtis White fans out there? What are your faves? Here are mine...(semi-) ranked! (Spirit of Dis the tops, all to the right of Science Delusion TBR still) (I'm nearly done the new one... and it's a nice revisiting of some perennial themes.) 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026(L.) New novels quite literally just in: Two more galley-slaves' galley yarns from @galleon-books.bsky.social (R.) Galley slices: Galley slaves & Friendz 030
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026n. b. I discovered this book via the redoubtable @doughenwood.bsky.social 's essential Behind the News on Berkeley Public Radio, and recommend beginning your Private Equity journey there: kpfa.org/episode/behi...kpfa.orgThe private equity racket | KPFAHettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class, on the private equity racket—who they are, what they do 010
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself by Hettie O'Brien, is v well executed, (carefully researched, well-written). Essential reading, if you want to know what's happened to your neighbourhood apartment block, vet practice, care home, water supply... 110
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Curtis White' latest book (quoting Stuart Hall): Realism is (now) the ideological "of course" 110
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Don't know why I conflated the press (FC2) of which Curtis White was a founding member with his current publisher, @melvillehouse.bsky.social, but I did! 000
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026From the ashes of the classics, the phoenix of the beautiful (?) —Curtis White, On Resistance (2026 @fictioncollective2.bsky.social ) 011
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Terry Eagleton, writing in 1988, anticipates Twitter... (Ideology: An Introduction) 010