an alarming thing about this section, on the ability of social stimuli to overwhelm thought, is the extent to which we can see it on our own timelines, both those we see and those we create. 'we are under attack by them' is the currency of polarisation. we've all seen it, shared it, even said or believed it. the problem is that if 'we' take the high road, 'they' win, something the platforms will be sure to make happen. because engagement is profitable and truth is not.
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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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From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts …
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Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a meditation on faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love.
Created from more than forty …
emmadilemma reviewed Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a meditation on faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. …
Enlightening, even for non-fans
3 stars
I've never been filed under "Nick Cave fan," though I owe him musical debts that take too long too explain. A non-fan expects a goth rocker with all the tropes that go with the phrase. In this series of interviews with friend and journalist Seán O'Hagan, Cave opens up about his faith (!) and how the death of his son, followed by Covid, changed the trajectory of his life and music.
emmadilemma wants to read Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building …
Still very useful, but maddeningly organized
2 stars
Compared to my decade-plus-old copy, the modern AP Stylebook carries much more information but chops it up into singular categories like an old record shop. Religion, sports and punctuation have separately alphabetized sections, and other concepts are tossed into narrative sections like "Health and science" and "Business." The information is all there, but the index is 100 pages long and you'll need it.
emmadilemma wants to read 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 …
emmadilemma quoted Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a meditation on faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. …
[T]he word 'baby' is very handy in songwriting — something you may not know. It's a songwriter's secret weapon, 'baby' or 'babe'. Those much-needed additional syllables.
— Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan (Page 196)
Nick Cave doesn't listen to my 'baby' songs, but I'm starting to feel like he gets me.
emmadilemma wants to read The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
emmadilemma quoted Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a meditation on faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. …
I spent a year on Twitter, not active, just following people, but in the end even that proved to be utterly dispiriting. I followed all these people, people I admired, people I had been interested in for years — podcasters, writers, journalists, public thinkers, social critics — and I found that the form somehow diminished almost all of them. Not all, but most. Initially, I thought it was like the Wild West or punk rock, but Twitter is really just a factory that churns out arseholes.
— Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan (Page 180)
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The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York …
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Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably …
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Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn
The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even …
emmadilemma quoted Dress Code by Véronique Hyland
Why does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how …
It wasn't until 1974, with the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, that American women finally won the right to have their own checking accounts without a man cosigning for them.
— Dress Code by Véronique Hyland (66%)
Yikes.