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Leviathan is a 2009 novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. First …
Still enjoying it! Fun breezy read, nice change of pace from what I've been reading lately
Leviathan is a 2009 novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. First …
Cute so far, took me an embarrassing 50 pages in before I realized this was alt ww1
Yeah I'm having some complicated feelings about the argument of this book so far
Like yes I agree that technological progress is often done by private entities in an undemocratic way
Yes I agree that regulatory agencies often take too narrow a view of risk and harm
But, I don't know, it feels like she's kind of arguing that to even develop technology we need a kind of consensus first that has looked at all possible potential harms and
I don't know
that doesn't really sit right with me. Maybe this is because of how trans I am but like I very easily see how this argument can, and in some ways has, been used to try and take away our healthcare as "harmful experiments"
and it doesn't help that she already has characterized nuclear plants as unequivocally dangerous
so I don't know, I'm going to see where she's …
Yeah I'm having some complicated feelings about the argument of this book so far
Like yes I agree that technological progress is often done by private entities in an undemocratic way
Yes I agree that regulatory agencies often take too narrow a view of risk and harm
But, I don't know, it feels like she's kind of arguing that to even develop technology we need a kind of consensus first that has looked at all possible potential harms and
I don't know
that doesn't really sit right with me. Maybe this is because of how trans I am but like I very easily see how this argument can, and in some ways has, been used to try and take away our healthcare as "harmful experiments"
and it doesn't help that she already has characterized nuclear plants as unequivocally dangerous
so I don't know, I'm going to see where she's going with these points
Interesting so far but I'm not sure I agree with some of the framing
Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought …
Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. …
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s …
Some of the stories in this were honestly fantastic. The Tower of the Elephant was awesome.
Then there were pieces like The Vale of Lost Women which is, just, incredibly racist in ways you can't ignore.
It's still worth reading for seeing how much of an influence Howard was on fantasy
During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of …
Ethan Mollick, professeur à Wharton et auteur de la populaire newsletter One Useful Thing Substack, …
It already feels a little dated but Ethan is legitimately thoughtful when drawing out the good and bad uses of modern LLMs for knowledge work.
It'll only take a couple of hours to read through, very breezy, but not dumbed down or inaccurate
I have such a weak spot for century old pulp sci-fi and fantasy
Can a synthesis of trans liberation and feminism be easily arrived at? This collection asserts …
Maybe I'm the wrong audience but I feel like this book was pretty sub-101 transfeminism and also not particularly well-written or persuasive. Not offensive but also not much of anything. The last chunk, "Third Sex", deconstructing how transness in south asia has been framed was definitely the highlight of the book
So weirdly raw and sortof triggering but the surreality and abstraction weirdly makes it easier to look at
