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Experimenting with moving my "want to read" list here.
With luck, this will encourage me to read more regularly - to balance the ambitious addition of books to said reading list against my recent reading habits...
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We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
Answering an inner call to seek the Truthseer, a youth questioning their gender identity flees from a joyless home and …
Answering an inner call to seek the Truthseer, a youth questioning their gender identity flees from a joyless home and …
Human Factors in Systems Engineering shows how to integrate human factors into the design of …
As recommended hachyderm.io/@paigerduty/114349497702332612
An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings
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As we go about our day-to-day lives, digital information about who we are is gathered …
Added after reading @edent@mastodon.social's review shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/book-review-machine-readable-me-by-zara-rahman/
@technicat That's interesting, I also read this around 2018 and my recollection is that it lowered my opinion of him a lot at the time - between the discussions of how he treats his employees (especially his assistant, that story was messed up) and the other general controversies, taking credit for others' work, etc.
Of course, it's still a long way from reading "this guy is an overrated asshole" to the truth of "this guy is a white nationalist accelerationist megalomaniacal asshole", but I'd offer there's some split between: there are signs even in a light-touch bio like this, there's bad stuff that no doubt was kept under wraps at the time, and at some point around 2020 he does seem to have become more extreme in his views (or gone fully "mask off", excuse the pun.)
"Ludicrous" by Edward Neidemeyer is the book that really burst the bubble of …
@technicat That's interesting, I also read this around 2018 and my recollection is that it lowered my opinion of him a lot at the time - between the discussions of how he treats his employees (especially his assistant, that story was messed up) and the other general controversies, taking credit for others' work, etc.
Of course, it's still a long way from reading "this guy is an overrated asshole" to the truth of "this guy is a white nationalist accelerationist megalomaniacal asshole", but I'd offer there's some split between: there are signs even in a light-touch bio like this, there's bad stuff that no doubt was kept under wraps at the time, and at some point around 2020 he does seem to have become more extreme in his views (or gone fully "mask off", excuse the pun.)
"Ludicrous" by Edward Neidemeyer is the book that really burst the bubble of his pre-2020 reputation for me, would recommend that one. Although, again, it doesn't get close to the extremes that have become evident since 2019.
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
@caitelatte@cloudisland.nz My reading list is impractically long, so this tip (somewhat illogically?) helps to make me more likely to pick it up sooner (I think, at this current moment. We'll see.) In any case, thanks! 😆
When the fourth princess of Istalam is due to dedicate herself to a path serving the crown, she makes a …
