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82% complete! salt marsh has read 43 of 52 books.
22 hours ago Public
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk …
Jun 15 Public
@catilac I probably won't but I think it was really with reading!
Jun 15 Public
"A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing …
Jun 14 Public
@cats-shadow@books.cats-home.net Right? I've read a bunch of other stuff by her, but I missed this when I was the age it's targeted at for whatever reason.
Jun 13 Public
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk …
Jun 9 Public
"A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author …
The logic is striking. A demand for pork drives industrialized farming of pigs, which increases disease transmission. The constant emergence of diseases drives the implementation of new technologies like AI pork farming. These technologies go on to make pork cheap, driving even more availability and demand, as people start to believe pork is a necessary part of their diet. AI is not the balm to any problem -- it is just one piece of the every-hungry quest for scale.
Jun 4 ( page 386 of 480 ) Public
A science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a …
I had to give this back to the library with just a bit left and I am very interested to see how it ends when I get a copy back. Not in an entirely positive way, though -- this book is super disturbing and there has to be a lot of payoff for that to be worth it to me
Jun 3 Public
A science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that …
May 30 Public
@binyamin I liked it! I found the author's voice endearing, which I wasn't sure about at a glance, and I thought it was very sensible and clear.
May 29 Public
While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun …
May 28 Public
@rond uh oh
May 28 Public
Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon …
May 27 Public
While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun …
May 27 Public
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics …
May 27 Public
Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon …
