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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The author's voice — earnest and sometimes dad-jokey without hysterics — is the reason you should make room on your shelf for yet another book on the environment. Sure, some of the chapters will cover ground that you may already know pretty well. But the other twenty will open your eyes, like revealing a sick forest behind a felled tree.
Half of the growth in emissions in China since 1990 comes from the offshoring and globalization of manufacturing industries. While the number of things manufactured in the US has declined over this period, we have become China's biggest customer. Effectively, we've outsourced our emissions to China's factories, patting ourselves on the back as they become the world's biggest emitter.
— Inconspicuous Consumption by Tatiana Schlossberg (Page 212)
[Book written in 2018.]
NSO’s Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It’s also been used …
And just like that, this returns to the headlines: the founder of HackingTeam, a rival spyware outfit to NSO whose history is intertwined with it, was arrested and jailed on suspicion of attempted murder.
I still insist that @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop was the first to use "the before times" as a pre-pandemic dividing line — because her pandemic book came out in 2019.
@kingrat@books.theunseen.city i only recently became aware of how pervasive truth creep is not just in truth, but also in entertainment — effects are upgraded, scenes changed or removed. banning books is an outrageous, noisy harm but silently modifying existing knowledge is a significant but less visible harm
NSO’s Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It’s also been used …
That enormous client base [of 200m] was what made Truecaller the best and most comprehensive phone directory, because whenever a mobile phone user downloaded its app, Truecaller automatically scraped the entire contents of the new user's contacts file and added it to the database.
— Pegasus by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud (30%)
Any app with both contacts and network permissions can do this. Many don't say they do, and some say they don't, but you have only their word.
NSO’s Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It’s also been used …
I couldn't take my eyes off her effulgent yellow overcoat and the way her hands and fingers cut powerfully through the air, measuring her cadences as she spoke.
— Pegasus by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud (28%)
I have to admit, the only other time I've heard the word effulgent was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Surrounded by other children with extremely commercial ideas about Christmas, Charlie Brown struggles to understand the true spirit of the …
Saint Etienne have spent three decades making music out of memories for people who make …
The first perhaps ⅔ of the book, which is about one of the author's favourite bands, is a lovely romp down Memory Lane. Eventually it becomes the tale of how one song and one album made him a superfan, and that's rather more relevant to his mates than to fans of Saint Etienne.
Saint Etienne have spent three decades making music out of memories for people who make …
Perhaps all you know of Saint Etienne is as vendors of a fantasy London. This certainly is true of their early career. Chapter 4 describes their recalibration and provides a pull-no-punches account of how different UK's two main parties really are not, and how they all serve the same masters. Fan or not, this is essential reading, for the music, the history, and the politics.
Saint Etienne have spent three decades making music out of memories for people who make …
The way the Eighties get treated by younger people, by indie revisionists and by vaporwave or whatever, I find really fascinating, because it was a grim time to live through for a lot of people. — Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne
— How We Used Saint Etienne to Live by Ramzy Alwakeel (26%)
This is a can't-miss book if you're a #SaintEtienne fan. All of my people need to read it. It's way too inside-baseball to convert anyone new, though.
NSO’s Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It’s also been used to spy on hundreds, and …
