paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book
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A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern …
it is disconcerting how often the author, in 2016, tries to warn us of a hideous future dystopia that has turned out markedly worse than what she must have thought was chicken-little talk. much like walking through tomorrowland today.
i am notoriously slow with fiction right now but had to check in - the first two of these stories are surreal and amazing, sliding you from a world you understand to one that is gradually revealed to twist in upon itself @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern …
Remarks on beleaguered university presidents forced to chase U.S. News rankings, "dedicating enormous energy toward boosting performance in fifteen areas defined by a group of journalists at a second-tier newsmagazine."
This 2016 book neatly predicts the crises of the last year — and cautions that these rankings are just one example of widely applied, opaque, caustic algorithms.
