Rylan on BookWyrm wants to read Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill
Adding to my list based on this post from @kashhill@mastodon.social
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We all—users, businesses, governments, and the general public—expect internet platform companies, like Meta, Alphabet, and …
Adding this to my list after seeing @tiffanycli@mastodon.social boost @paulgowder@recurse.social
recurse.social/@paulgowder/110825909177850107
The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms is a polisci-based case for global direct democratic governance of big tech platforms. The paperback is reasonably priced, and there's an open-access PDF, so you have no excuse not to get it.
Rylan on BookWyrm commented on Networks of New York by Ingrid Burrington
With more than 50 color illustrations, Burrington takes us on a tour whereby she decodes …
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Rylan on BookWyrm commented on Networks of New York by Ingrid Burrington
With more than 50 color illustrations, Burrington takes us on a tour whereby she decodes …
Added this to my list because @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk said “ It is a wonderfully nerdy book, if you are interested in some of the physical infrastructure of the Internet.”
Rylan on BookWyrm wants to read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
Adding to my list because of this Instagram Reel: www.instagram.com/reel/CvL1r1IMs22/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Rylan on BookWyrm wants to read Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
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/
Rylan on BookWyrm wants to read Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
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
Rylan on BookWyrm started reading Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric …
Rylan on BookWyrm finished reading Sideways by Josh O'Kane
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
Rylan on BookWyrm wants to read Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
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"
Rylan on BookWyrm started reading Sideways by Josh O'Kane
Rylan on BookWyrm finished reading Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
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
Rylan on BookWyrm wants to read Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan
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
Rylan on BookWyrm commented on Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
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
Rylan on BookWyrm started reading Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of …