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Adding this book to my list after listening to Jennifer Pahlka on the Tech Policy Press podcast, The Sunday Show, "Recoding America: A Conversation with Jennifer Pahlka"
techpolicy.press/recoding-america-a-conversation-with-jennifer-pahlka/
A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts …
Surprised I didn’t have this on my list already, I love everything I read from @kimzetter@infosec.exchange
Really interesting read & well written story-telling. Josh O’Kane clearly built a strong relationship with his sources because he had so much tell as if he was sitting in on every single meeting between Sidewalk Labs & Waterfront Toronto & others
Adding this book after listening to Mark Harris on the Tech Policy Press podcast, The Sunday Show (https://techpolicy.press/podcast/).
Ep for May 7, 2023 "Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto and the Project of Silicon Valley"
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime …
Great read from @agreenberg@infosec.exchange, it was a perfect balance between the technical side of tracing cryptocurrencies & narrative story-telling of the development of the techniques. Excited to read Sandworm as well soon
Adding this book to my reading list after reading this article:
Landlords Are One of the Leading Causes of Canada’s Rent Crisis | Jacobin jacobin.com/2023/05/landlords-canada-housing-rent-crisis-real-estate
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the …
Already had this on my reading this, but popped it up to the top of the queue after finishing Canadaland Commons’ bonus episode on monopolies with @pluralistic@mamot.fr
www.canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-cory-doctorow-knows-why-monopolies-are-killing-art/
I usually read on a Kindle, so obviously bought a physical copy of Chokepoint Capitalism from bookshop.org
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern …
Pretty example focused chapters, I would’ve loved more math, but I think that was the point of the book to appeal to a wider audience. It’s something I wish I had read years ago when I still believed math was pure & objective, but it was people like Cathy O’Neil’s work that spread the message to understand algorithms differently & how they project the ideas of people like any language does
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
Adding this book after seeing this Instagram Reel www.instagram.com/reel/Cq3i5Ubgu5p/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math …
@jerry@infosec.exchange adding this book because of this post:
I love The Joy of Wh(y) podcast, I didn’t realize there was a book authored by the host!
<a href="https://infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/ href="https://books.infosec.exchange/user/jerry">@jerry/110177395258959221
@internic@qoto.org Adding this book to reading list because of this thread
I definitely plan to read this again, it set up a really good structure in my mind for thinking about systems problems across every discipline (and the interconnectivity of all those disciplines)