Emily Gorcenski finished reading The Three Pillars of Effective Technical Leadership by Mesut Ayata
A nice little handbook written by my friend and coworker, Mesut. This book is a nice reference for new tech leads.
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Emily Gorcenski started reading Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime …
Been excited to start reading this one for a while, a good and exciting book to start 2025.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room …
I never focused on the Q movement much in my time (I focused on the alt right mostly) so I learned a bunch reading this.
Emily Gorcenski started reading The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room …
Remember QAnon? Whatever happened to all that?
Emily Gorcenski finished reading You can't go home again by Thomas Wolfe
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns …
This book fascinates. It’s too long by at least a quarter. Wolfe is inconsistent at best. But the final hundred pages rank among some of the finest prose I have ever, ever read.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
“Notes on Camp” is a stunning relevant essay even 60 years later.
My 60th (proper) book of the year, hitting my goal for reading. This year I’ve read more than probably any other in my life. And not easy material, either. Philosophy. Books in German. Technical books. It’s been a fruitful year.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
Powering through the books on this flight. I like how Gill-Peterson deconstructs “transgender.” The book is far from comprehensive, but it is illuminating.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading After the Internet by Tiziana Terranova
The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a …
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.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, …
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.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, …
Onto #58 on the Modern Library list, and the last on the list I’ll read this year.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Vision on Fire by Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman would have absolutely killed it on Twitter.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Code & Vorurteil by Eva Berendsen
Unser zukünftiges Leben soll von der Künstlichen Intelligenz revolutioniert werden. Aber wer profitiert von der …
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.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Code & Vorurteil by Eva Berendsen
Unser zukünftiges Leben soll von der Künstlichen Intelligenz revolutioniert werden. Aber wer profitiert von der …
Ich habe mit großen Hoffnungen angefangen, diese tolle Sammlung von Essays über KI, Gerechtigkeit und Datenrechte zu lesen.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Practical Data Privacy by Katharine Jarmul
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!