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KevSaund

KevSaund@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years, 1 month ago

I mostly read Scifi, Comics, and playscripts. I also consume vast quantities of other media but I probably won't be posting about that here.

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Mary Robinette Kowal: The Martian Contingency (Paperback, 2025, Tor Books)

Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.—triggering an extinction-level global warming event—Earth’s survivors have …

Another solid entry in the Lady Astronaut series

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I hadn’t realized this was out until my library app recommended it.

The author’s note at the end mentions she structured the novel around a calendar, which wasn’t obvious while reading, but I get it afterwards. It outside of that, there’s a lot less plot structure. This is almost a slice of life novel, but on mars. There’s sort of a central mystery in here, but that almost feels like back of the book bait more than what the novel is really about.

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Emily Bender, Alex Hanna: The AI Con (Hardcover, 2025, Penguin Random House)

A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …

Never stop laughing at them.

The way to burst a bubble is with pointed laughter.

Also this book does a very good job of explaining the breadth of “AI” hype, including examining all of the different ways it is actively making the world worse, oth big and small.

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Emily Bender, Alex Hanna: The AI Con (Hardcover, 2025, Penguin Random House)

A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …

The climate crisis is fundamentally a collection of social problems, about building political will to overcome current economic incentives and about how to allocate resources to accommodate climate refugees

The AI Con by , , , and 1 other (36%)

On why text extrusion machines will not be able to solve the climate crisis.