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Powering through the books on this flight. I like how Gill-Peterson deconstructs “transgender.” The book is far from comprehensive, but it is illuminating.

I had hopes for this book but, like most Marxist literature, it folds itself into self-congratulatory readings of theory and references to other writers, while failing to actually engage with much of the concrete realities of the neoliberal internet.

Done with #58 on the list. It was an easy read, as long as you let yourself glide over the language, and a critique of New York society of a century ago which still remains relevant today. Heartbreaking, but also lighthearted.

Onto #58 on the Modern Library list, and the last on the list I’ll read this year.

Emma Goldman would have absolutely killed it on Twitter.

Ich habe eigentlicht nichts Neues außer ein Paar deutsche Fallbeispiele gelernt. Trotzdem fand ich die Beiträge sehr gut, besonders den von Ingmar Mundt, in dem er schreibt, dass sogenannte “unbiased” Data Sets unzureichend sind, um gerechte KI zu bauen, weil das Sozialsystem selbst ungerecht ist. Endlich habe ich etwas ein bisschen mehr “radikal” gelesen.

Ich habe mit großen Hoffnungen angefangen, diese tolle Sammlung von Essays über KI, Gerechtigkeit und Datenrechte zu lesen.

A great book that serves as a great overview of the various techniques developed to improve privacy while also permitting useful data analysis to be done. There are lots of good examples and case studies in this book!

This year, for my personal development days, I'm diving deep into this book, written by my friend and former co-worker. It's a really great look at some of the techniques one should be familiar with to engineer privacy into our systems!

This book’s title was rattling in my head for years and years and I finally decided to find where it’s from: a book about someone from the Blue Ridge who moves to Germany to discover himself and the world and comes home to find that he, and therefore the world, has changed.

I wonder why it appeals to me so much.

Done with #68 on the Modern Library Top 100 list. 100 years old and remarkably relevant and relatable. A book about both the impossibility and inevitability of the American dream, Lewis’s prose is remarkable, and the book is a witty satire of middle American culture.

Know your history

Ich vermisse Prag :(

Ich habe vor ein Paar Jahren in Prag dieses Buch gekauft. Weil ich meine Wohnung ausräume, möchte ich es schell lesen und meiner Freundin schenken.