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jacky

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I'm a wanna-be avid reader. Books allow me to escape and rebuild the world I live in, and I'm always eager to find another story that takes me even further.

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Sociotechnical History Books Public

John Markoff: What the dormouse said (2006, Penguin Books)

Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction (Paperback, 2017, Broadway Books)

Brian Christian: The Alignment Problem (2020, W. W. Norton & Company)

Melanie Mitchell: Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Tom Standage: The Victorian Internet (2007)

A list of books I'm working o…

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My Black August 2024 Reading List Public

Benjamin Quarles: Black abolitionists (Paperback, 1991, Da Capo Press)

Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson, Mimi Thi Nguyen: Surviving the Future (2023, PM Press)

Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper, Naomi Murakawa: We Do This 'Til We Free Us (Paperback, 2021, Haymarket Books)

Victoria Law: “Prisons Make Us Safer” (Paperback, 2021, Beacon Press)

Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander: Prison by Any Other Name (Paperback, 2021, The New Press)

These books were what I plann…

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Fiction Unlisted

Li Sun Kung: Begin the World Over (2022, AK Press)

Spectualive, science, high fa…

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History Unlisted

Brian Merchant: Blood in the Machine (Hardcover, 2023, Little Brown & Company)

Books that mainly expand on h…

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