User Profile

avatar for emmadilemma

emmadilemma

emmadilemma@book.dansmonorage.blue

Joined 2 years, 12 months ago

paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book

masto: eldritch.cafe/@tati

Follow on Fediverse

This link opens in a pop-up window

emmadilemma's books

To Read (View all 106)

This Song Will Save Your Life (2015, Square Fish)
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is (Hardcover, Princeton)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2018)

Currently Reading (View all 5)

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches (Hardcover, 2024, Delacorte Press)
The Very Hungry City (Paperback, 2014, Yale University Press)
San Francisco (Hardcover, 1978, Presidio Press)

Read (View all 189)

Lonely Planet Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks 6 (Paperback, 2021, Lonely Planet Publications)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019, Public Affairs)
Universal Harvester (2017)
View all books

User Activity

RSS feed

reviewed Road to Nowhere by Paris Marx

Road to Nowhere (Hardcover, 2022, Verso) 2 stars

Road to Nowhere exposes the problems with Silicon Valley’s visions of the future and argues …

A bit of demagoguery

2 stars

I rarely review books I don't finish, as I generally feel it's unfair to the author. For this book, though, I felt as though I was a choir being preached to. The author said all the things I believe, many of which I'm sure I've heard before - but the documentation was spare, generally noting only direct quotes. Such a book aimed at an audience I don't agree with is one I'd call dangerous, making people more confident in their biases but not making them more informed. I can't support such a book just because it's speaking to Us rather than Them; it's just as dangerous a vehicle.

quoted These Truths by Jill Lepore

These Truths (Paperback, 2019, W. W. Norton & Company) 3 stars

"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers …

Their god, Yúcahu, had once foretold that they "would enjoy their dominion for but a brief time because a clothed people would come to their land who could overcome them and kill them." This had come to pass. There were about three million people on [Haiti], land of mountains, when Columbus landed; fifty years later, there were only five hundred; everyone else had died, their songs unsung.

— These Truths by  (Page 6)