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The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, …
Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew …
Wrong about Japan is a 2005 book by Peter Carey. It is subtitled A Father's Journey with his Son. Superficially …
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw …
Really intrigued about this book after listening to an interview with the author, which left me feeling very conflicted about my continued use of Meta products
Very excited about this book, big Ash Sarkar fan!
Really interested to see how the author addresses this moral dilemma of great art made by problematic people
In a revealing tweet, he admitted his ambition to turn Twitter into an 'everything app'. What did he mean by an 'everything app'? He meant nothing less than a gateway to technofeudalism, one that would allow him to attract users' attention, modify their consumer behaviour, extract free labour from them as cloud serfs and, last but not least, charge vendors cloud rent for selling them their wares.
— Techno Feudalism What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Page 134)
Musk's ambition for an "everything" app, does sum up techno-feudalism, and why we should be worried about it. One just needs to look at WeChat in China, and the power that it wields.
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job …
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe …
