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Joined 3 years ago

@masto.ai/@socprof. Interests: sociology, journalism, science-fiction, but not exclusively.

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Joël Dicker: Le Livre des Baltimore (Paperback, French language, Rosie & Wolfe)
Jane Borden: Cults Like Us
Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

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Greg Iles: The Bone Tree (2015)
Yume Kitasei: Saltcrop (Hardcover, 2025, Flatiron Books)
Leah Sottile: Blazing Eye Sees All (2025, Grand Central Publishing)

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Robert Harris: Precipice (2024, HarperCollins Publishers)
Joyce Vance (author of Civil Discourse): Giving up is unforgivable (Hardcover, 2025, Dutton)
Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer: Wings (EBook, Liverright)

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reviewed The Silver Book by Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing: The Silver Book (Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

If you like Italian cinema of the 70s

This book is for you. Fellini shooting Casanova, Pasolini shooting Salo. They're all here, following the meandering through life of a young British man. If you've ever read Pasolini's early novels, you will find the structure of this one very similar.

reviewed The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu

Tim Wu: The Age of Extraction (Hardcover, 2025, Knopf)

Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and …

Closing the barn doors after the horses have already left

I'm surprised Wu, who's usually prescient, is behind on this. That or he underestimates how much power the tech platforms have already accumulated. Suggesting as a possible, partial solution that tech platforms should not be allowed to invest in AI is closing the barn doors after the horses have already escaped.