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Borges is an inventor of Guys. And Things. Many interesting Guys and Things, that we have cribbed and fobbed from like the classics - and as we do so, we realise that many of his stories are not just about Guys, but ourselves.
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead …
Funny in a droll way, as others have said. Lots of highlightable passages and aphorisms to add to your repertoire; I, however, have no knowledge of cybernetics besides. Will need to take a dip in Davies' recommended further readings before a revisit.
Funny in a droll way, as others have said. Lots of highlightable passages and aphorisms to add to your repertoire; I, however, have no knowledge of cybernetics besides. Will need to take a dip in Davies' recommended further readings before a revisit.
Reviewed here:
Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website: The Left Hand of Darkness …
Holy shit. Absolute libro
Alright @pluralistic@mamot.fr, you've sold me - I want more.
Alright @pluralistic@mamot.fr, you've sold me - I want more.
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the …
Though fictitious, this is a very horrifying look into private equity's very real practices, and its chokehold on US prisons - or, "what businesses would do to all of us if they could get away with it." Full look-in on Brologue soon.
Though fictitious, this is a very horrifying look into private equity's very real practices, and its chokehold on US prisons - or, "what businesses would do to all of us if they could get away with it." Full look-in on Brologue soon.
The Fifth Elephant is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 24th book …
This was not, as I had imagined, about the titular fifth elephant crash-landing onto the Discworld after aeons congealing in orbit (a book with such a plot would be a pile of smouldering ash beyond the first page. I know), but something that comes much, much later. Something much, much more interesting, too. Expect a more thorough look-in on my blog soonish.
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- …
There's a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in Ankh-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude, and a Golem who's begun to think …
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist is a 2017 non-fiction book …
@Llinos@toot.wales mentioned this book to me. The only economising I've ever done with donuts is how many to buy from Greggs. This is, as she has told me, not a book about that, but how we might build a regenerative economy. Very interesting...
@Llinos@toot.wales mentioned this book to me. The only economising I've ever done with donuts is how many to buy from Greggs. This is, as she has told me, not a book about that, but how we might build a regenerative economy. Very interesting...
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of …
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.
Martin Hench …
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …
Again, I don't remember when I started reading this, but I'm on the third chapter and I'm currently getting a lot out of a brief detour on human thought (which I assume has been written by Graeber, I don't know): Neuroscientists claim the "window of consciousness" is open for seven seconds, and we spend most of our lives on autopilot, but what they often fail to mention on the back of this is that human thought is dialogical. That is, our window expands when we're talking to someone else.
Again, I don't remember when I started reading this, but I'm on the third chapter and I'm currently getting a lot out of a brief detour on human thought (which I assume has been written by Graeber, I don't know): Neuroscientists claim the "window of consciousness" is open for seven seconds, and we spend most of our lives on autopilot, but what they often fail to mention on the back of this is that human thought is dialogical. That is, our window expands when we're talking to someone else.
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax …
I can't remember when I started reading this but so far it's been an eye-opener. I went into the field of cybersecurity thinking you could only hack computers. How wrong I was. Hacks are everywhere.
I can't remember when I started reading this but so far it's been an eye-opener. I went into the field of cybersecurity thinking you could only hack computers. How wrong I was. Hacks are everywhere.
Revised Edition
There's a lot of... err... superfluous guff in the first chapter. A reviewer left me with an important point, though: You can be a book full of genuinely good advice and be targeted to an audience privileged enough to take many things for granted. Giving it its due diligence and reading all the way through.
There's a lot of... err... superfluous guff in the first chapter. A reviewer left me with an important point, though: You can be a book full of genuinely good advice and be targeted to an audience privileged enough to take many things for granted. Giving it its due diligence and reading all the way through.
