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Falko

maxheadroom@books.mxhdr.net

Joined 5 years ago

reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.

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83% complete! Falko has read 5 of 6 books.

Ahmed Raafat, Matias Undurraga: The Art Of The Ask (EBook, english language, AWS)

"Think of AI like an incredibly knowledgeable, eager-to-please apprentice. It can do amazing things, but …

This "book" should have been a blog post

while the gist of this "book" is somewhat useful, it's really not more content then for a short to medium length blog post. The rest if fluff and repetition.

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

Finally, dear reader, we dedicated this one to you, and we meant it. Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.

David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity (2022, Penguin Books, Limited)

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …

If there is a riddle here it’s this: why, after millennia of constructing and disassembling forms of hierarchy, did Homo sapiens – supposedly the wisest of apes – allow permanent and intractable systems of inequality to take root? Was this really a consequence of adopting agriculture? Of settling down in permanent villages and, later, towns?

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