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Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's …
I just realized this was published in 1992, which explains why I kept remarking on how different this feels from other contemporary speculative fiction I've read
Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's …
I'm not very far in but this book seems to really get anthropology's capacity to be a tool of colonialism
By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a …
I'm probably not going to read this because I've been complaining about books enough lately, but I want you to know that someone went in and corrected every instance of the slogan "think different" to "think differently" in this library book with a ball point pen
In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the …
pity my friend who is here at whom I'm about to spout so many ad facts
"An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and …
I keep being frustrated that Pariser seems to take for granted that various recommendation algorithms, machine learning models, etc all work well as intended. The ways in which they extremely do not work are really important!
"An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and …
This book keeps starting chapters with long anecdotes about things like a Soviet spy defecting, or how adderall works, which do not explain anything about how computers work, and then basing broad statements about how computers effect the brain on them
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …
I'm enjoying this immensely so far
"A novel written in cyberspace, Nearly Roadkill is an Infobahn erotic thriller without any boundaries …
This book has the energy of Hackers (1995) but with an incredibly interesting and thoughtful exploration of gender, loads of sex, and a prescient read of corporate influence on internet culture.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), Victorian England’s bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian humor with chilling suspense …
I'm probably going to stick with this since I'm listening to it serialized in a podcast but omg. I would not recommend this book.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in …
This book was fine, I can see why people really liked it. It's well written and the plot is solid, but I found the picture perfect artsy Brooklyn courtship tedious, I didn't find either of the main characters all that compelling, and the tropes it relies on a little uninteresting. I was disappointed by how lacking in oddness or eccentricity it was, how credible but unremarkable the characters are.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in …
I like that's she's spent 300 years obsessed with finding the ur indie softboy
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary …
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it
One in four …
I really like the structure of this book, with a set of arguments, comments from other scholars, and then a response from the author. I haven't encountered that much before, but maybe it's common in academic writing?
A unique, fictional portrait of feminist radicals that brings the legacy of the ’60s and ’70s into its portrayal of …
"A novel written in cyberspace, Nearly Roadkill is an Infobahn erotic thriller without any boundaries …
yess I was finally able to request an inter-library loan for this!!