Glad to hear folks are still checking out that AMA! There are spin-off essays and excepts from the book on my website, too, and via my free newsletter. Links to all:
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You’re welcome - and thanks for the vote of confidence on that other thread (which I didn’t want to flood by mentioning there)!

In that case I have just the thing for you: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, out earlier this year from the University of California Press (links in bio):

Nice - also eek on the lack of steps!

I had a version of this: I asked students to imagine that they had a research assistant to do their assignment; then they had to write instructions for their assistant; and then they had to become the assistant and follow their own steps.

You chose your moment well.

And I want to emphasize the only reason I know this is because she made the call on speaker phone at work.

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Seems reasonable to say yes it would be.

It really is quite a surreal experience to listen to a bunch of entitled mostly old, mostly white, mostly men so aggressively and with apparent pleasure take away my health insurance. #shutdown #obamacare #aca

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.

Appeasers deserve what they get. Pity they take the rest of us down with them.

They'd better stop throwing money at the most garbage things that tech companies want them to pay for....