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emmadilemma

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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

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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)

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

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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)
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reviewed Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

Weapons of Math Destruction (Paperback, 2016, Allen Lane) 4 stars

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern …

Truthful and maddening

3 stars

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.