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José María (Chema) Mateos rated The Anatomy of the Swipe: 2 stars
José María (Chema) Mateos rated The AI Con: 5 stars

The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies …
José María (Chema) Mateos rated The Book of Elsewhere: 3 stars

The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves, Random House Worlds
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, …
José María (Chema) Mateos rated Our Lives in Their Portfolios: 4 stars

Our Lives in Their Portfolios by Brett Christophers
All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world
Banks have taken a backseat since the …
José María (Chema) Mateos rated Rusia contra el mundo: 4 stars
José María (Chema) Mateos rated Ignorance: 5 stars
José María (Chema) Mateos rated A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: 2 stars

A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
A tiny American town’s plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a …
José María (Chema) Mateos rated World of Trouble: 3 stars

World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman, #3)
"With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a …
José María (Chema) Mateos rated Log Off: 2 stars
José María (Chema) Mateos rated Give Them an Argument: 3 stars

Give Them an Argument by Ben Burgis
Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with right-wing "logicbros". This is a …
José María (Chema) Mateos rated Capturing Sound: 4 stars

Finks: how the CIA tricked the world's best writers by Whitney, Joel (Journalist)
"When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a …

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Eoin Higgins
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely …