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Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill
5 stars
New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview …
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Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
4 stars
As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and …
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The Climate Book by Margaret Atwood, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Naomi Klein, and 100 others
5 stars
The Climate Book is a collective non-fiction book by the climate activist Greta Thunberg. The original English edition was published …
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Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink
4 stars
We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws …
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Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa
4 stars
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism.
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that …
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Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake
5 stars
From the insider who—according to The New Yorker—offers a “forceful critique…of Big Tech’s steady erosion of democracy,” and what must …
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The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
4 stars
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us …
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Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns
4 stars
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinson
No-one deserves to …
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We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
4 stars
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News is a 2021 autobiographical account of open …
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Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
4 stars
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because …
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The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
4 stars
The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to …