trochee wants to read Breaking Things at Work by Gavin Mueller
"In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on …
Well, gosh.
Mentioned on Techtonic; now I gotta look it up
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trochee started reading Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #3.5)
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.
An ex-Kel …
Anything by Yoon Ha Lee is worth reading.
trochee started reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
Rereading this; AI resisting jumped up techno-imperialists seems Relevant To Current Events and I need some kind of comfort read
trochee finished reading The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
This doesn't have many surprises for me, a long time friend-of-the-pod, but it's still nice to see Emily and Alex's work in book form It doesn't have the same irreverence that the podcast has, but it's a resource I'm glad is in one place to share with other lonely members of the Resistance when I find them
This doesn't have many surprises for me, a long time friend-of-the-pod, but it's still nice to see Emily and Alex's work in book form It doesn't have the same irreverence that the podcast has, but it's a resource I'm glad is in one place to share with other lonely members of the Resistance when I find them
trochee wants to read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran …
Recommended by CJA on Our Opinions. Sounds rad
trochee finished reading We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #1)
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life …
Not deeply impressed by this book. It's kinda fun, but also feels like Mary Sue self congratulations for smart computer nerds
Tchaikovsky's CHILDREN series does this whole schtick better
Not deeply impressed by this book. It's kinda fun, but also feels like Mary Sue self congratulations for smart computer nerds
Tchaikovsky's CHILDREN series does this whole schtick better
trochee started reading We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #1)
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life …
This is a bit corny but fun.
It's also about intelligence in silico, but in a delightfully naive way that doesn't require me to think about the awfulness of large language models.
This is a bit corny but fun.
It's also about intelligence in silico, but in a delightfully naive way that doesn't require me to think about the awfulness of large language models.
trochee wants to read More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and …
This guy was a guest on Ed Zitron's show; I rarely hear interviews where I am gleefully saying "fuck yeah" every few minutes
This guy was a guest on Ed Zitron's show; I rarely hear interviews where I am gleefully saying "fuck yeah" every few minutes
trochee wants to read The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of …
Appeared in Our Opinions Are Correct!
trochee started reading The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
From two of my fellow dair-community.social peeps.
@alex@dair-community.social and @emilymbender@dair-community.social
trochee finished reading Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the …
No surprises here
Absolutely useful for engineering leaders even if you're not a manager
I found it helpful to identify places where I feel under -supported as a staff/principal IC
No surprises here
Absolutely useful for engineering leaders even if you're not a manager
I found it helpful to identify places where I feel under -supported as a staff/principal IC
trochee finished reading Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella …
Absolutely delightful comfort read.
Not as heavy or idea-packed as AUTONOMOUS but I am absolutely ready for an anthology of short stories set in this same world.
trochee finished reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate)
Fun and interesting inversion of a bunch of "I am creating life" tropes going all the way back to Mary Shelley
Fun and interesting inversion of a bunch of "I am creating life" tropes going all the way back to Mary Shelley
trochee wants to read Digital Degrowth by Michael Kwet
Heard a short bit about this on Future Tense podcast
trochee started reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate)
This is a SF novel embedded within a roman à clef about a SF novelist who resembles at some distance the author herself
But not exactly, all the way through. It's a rich text, and I'm only 10% through
This is a SF novel embedded within a roman à clef about a SF novelist who resembles at some distance the author herself
But not exactly, all the way through. It's a rich text, and I'm only 10% through