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This newsletter is an experiment that describes what I am doing, personally and professionally, in a way that I no longer trust social media to do. This has included, in order of frequency:

1. commentaries on my extensive and mildly obsessive readings, listenings, and watchings:

   1. mostly poppy,

   2. but occasionally peer-reviewed;

2. interviews with people I find:

   1. in my personal network, or

   2. in my above-mentioned foraging of the noosphere;

3. reprints of the past ten years of writing in obscure places online;

4. personal reflections;

5. cartoons or diagrams of my own creation;

6. and finally, short stories.

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