emmadilemma finished reading Weapons of math destruction by Cathy O'Neil

Weapons of math destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip …
YA and paranoia, mainly. Can't Speak French but pretend to read French books anyway. Also: polyglot.city/@pootriarch / eldritch.cafe/@pootriarch
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A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip …
Through no fault of the author's, I learned little but became angry. The concepts in this book, wrapped up in the tidy and accurate WMD moniker, are ones I've read about at length. She provides concrete examples and receipts. I just ended up with incrementally more knowledge but substantially more rage.
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a skater girl gang information superhighway ready to deploy
— Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker (Page 102)
this line brought back a lot of mid-90s feels
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver …