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idealist at heart

in my opinion, there are 2 key takeaways from 'white fragility' by robin diangelo:

1. racism is not an ‘either / or’ binary but rather a continuum &
2. the challenge is to accept and grapple with this truth.

full review: idealistatheart.com/white-frag

#book #books #bookstodon
#nonfiction #reading #amreading #read #review #bookreview #bookrecommendation

cover of the nonfiction book 'white fragility' by robin diangelo
#socialjustice#whiteprivilege#equality
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Alex

“The reliably derisive Mike Masnick of the nominally independent blog _TechDirt_…[and its] voluminous and typically cyberlibertarian comment boards,” god I’ve waited so long for someone to say something like this. Masnick once called an attempt to get Snapchat in trouble for drug trafficking that results in kids dying “dumb” #books #book #Bookstodon #bookstadon

from the this-is-not-how-this-is-supposed-to-work dept Thu, Jan 4th 2024 09:27am - Mike Masnick Well, this is dumb. As detailed by NBC News, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff has rejected a perfectly reasonable attempt by SnapChat to have a lawsuit thrown out on Section Legal Issues 230 grounds. The case involves family members of kids who overdosed on illegal drugs like fentanyl, suing Snap for apparently providing the connection between the drug dealers and the kids.
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Alex

Whenever you hear about “the market” or market forces,” you should assume the person is A) talking about some kind of computer and B) promoting ignorance—after all, why trust yourself or another person when you can just appeal to a nebulous “market” and what it “wants”? This mentality also explains why YIMBYism (which is obsessed with “market-clearing” rates and an Econ 101 view of the world) is so appealing to the tech world, and how LLMs are seen as oracles #books #bookstodon #book #bookstodon

74 The Forms and Functions of Cyberlibertarianism with the advent of digital technology, but inextricably tied to it, because "the market" itself is a very special kind of computer. "In the popular Hayekian account," writes Mirowski, "the marketplace is deemed to be a superio information processor, so therefore all human knowledge can be used to its fullest only if it is comprehensively owned and priced (2013, 65). Part of the "double truth" of neoliberalism is that despite being "dedicated to rational discourse about a market conceived as a superior information pro-cessor," the most influential members of the NTC "ended up praising and promoting ignorance" (70).
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DRM is good for No One

DRM is good for No One

DRM is good for No One

I have some wonderful ebooks I can read them without any hitches on my bigger Androids
However on this small one Amazon Kindle refuses to download the books thus refuses to let me read them

#DRM#Amazon#Kindle
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