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There's chapters on the inventions of COBOL and Bitcoin and you're gonna write the whole book off because they included a chapter on today’s surveillance infras
by culi 4y ago
There's chapters on the inventions of COBOL and Bitcoin and you're gonna write the whole book off because they included a chapter on today’s surveillance infrastructure and the shoddy crime-data algorithm that laid the cornerstone for said infrastructure?
Living life reacting so strongly to things you might not immediately agree with sounds exhausting. Good luck with
- mjmsmith 4y agoReactionary is as reactionary does.
- subradios 4y agoYou can also tell by all the talks about how "human" it is, which is a way tech writers praise each other for writing books about technology that require no knowledge of nor interest in technology to understand. There's also the bit about hoping developers say no to cheating emissions standards. Picking that example and not, say - not assisting the Chinese government in surveilling their citizens shows exactly where the author wants to take these ideas. These themes would be fun to discuss in some environment, but it's pretty clear that the goal is to create a page turner first, push a message second, produce insight last. The author is funded by New America. An organization founded by a lady famous for helping Sandinistas sue the US government to for foreign intervention, then signing off on one of the worst interventions in the Global War on Terror in Libya. It is possible that this is just ad copy for an otherwise good book, but forgive us for assuming that the person passing out christian literature at the party is probably mostly interested in converting new christians.
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