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The Paintings of Leonard Peltier (opens the original)
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The Resistance Needs a Stage: Pickaxe Is Becoming a Platform for the Awake (opens the original)
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by Jon Forrest LittleThe Machine, the Lifeboat, and the SongThere is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance in making a modest living through the very technology you distrust.I have spent years watching the consolidation of power into a few giant platforms—especially Google and Apple—whose products have become less like tools and more like toll roads. They organize what we see, how we communicate, what gets discovered, and increasingly, what is allowed to matter. And yet I publish online. I s
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