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Sarah Wynn-Williams: Careless People (EBook, 2025, Flatiron Books)

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny …

Must read - stay away from Meta

1st-hand insights into Facebook/Meta that will hopefully keep you far away from using their products (i.e. being their product). Be aware that all Big Techs operate the same way and take your conclusions: chokepoint capitalism and enshittification to the max.

Is this a well-written book and is Sarah beyond questions? Not at all, it is the insight that is worth 4 stars.

reviewed Machtübernahme by Arne Semsrott (Serie Piper, 811)

Arne Semsrott: Machtübernahme (Hardcover, Deutsch language, 2024, Droemer)

Das Buch der Stunde: Der bekannte Politikaktivist Arne Semsrott zeigt, was passiert, wenn Rechtsextremisten an …

Wichtig doch manchmal wenig konkret

Inhaltlich gut und wichtig, leider manchmal etwas geschwätzig und unkonkret .. schwierige Balance ..

Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (Hardcover, 2022, Beacon Press)

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the …

Excellent

Excellent read mirroring Varoufakis‘ Techno-Feudalism. Really wordy, other readers may like it. In general I do not have any hope that the average dumb consumer will stand up and be disciplined enough to change the system. You get what you pay for …

Yanis Varoufakis, Varoufakis, Yanis.: Technofeudalism (Hardcover, 2023, Random House Children's Books)

In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism …

Enshittification reloaded

Exzellent piece of work, absolute surprise to see Varoufakis getting to the same conclusions as Cory Doctorow. What Cory calls enshittification leading to chokepoint capitalism, for Yannis is the mechanism leading to techno-feudalism. Brilliant and great insight.

However: how to get out of it remains absolutely unclear