I had a lot of thoughts on this, though I likely won't put up a star rating unless I can make them more coherent. I started it thinking it would be useful foundational material; on having finished it I think it was worth reading for a depth of understanding in differing opinions. Though a warning for potential readers, I myself found it lacked much opinion in either direction.
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You can call me Xenia (yea like the Linux mascot - unfortunately I'm not the most creative) or Raven or Vix, I'm not the most decisive either. As the user name suggests I am quite a strange lil fox-thing. I mostly read lit-fic, political/economic theory and Maths or CompSci stuff and the occassional urban fantasy, though really anything may pop up here!
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Vulpis Ecclectica finished reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
I had a lot of thoughts on this, though I likely won't put up a star rating unless I can make them more coherent. I started it thinking it would be useful foundational material; on having finished it I think it was worth reading for a depth of understanding in differing opinions. Though a warning for potential readers, I myself found it lacked much opinion in either direction.
Vulpis Ecclectica started reading Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn
Interesting, I think it would be a good look at the roots of some parts of hacker (as much in the DIY/Alt sense as the other) culture; Unfortunately I am not really in the right space for how it is written at the moment so I don't think I can give a valid critique.
Interesting, I think it would be a good look at the roots of some parts of hacker (as much in the DIY/Alt sense as the other) culture; Unfortunately I am not really in the right space for how it is written at the moment so I don't think I can give a valid critique.
Vulpis Ecclectica reviewed The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
One of the most influential …
Simple yet sadly very relevant.
5 stars
Rather basic in notion but a very quick read and a good primer I think in the type of language translation and time have produced before moving into the larger works such as Capital.
Vulpis Ecclectica rated Wide Sargasso Sea: 5 stars
Vulpis Ecclectica rated The Art of Statistics: 4 stars

The Art of Statistics by David J. Spiegelhalter
The essential guide to statistical science in the age of big data, from the President of the Royal Statistical Society.
…Vulpis Ecclectica rated The Yellow Wallpaper: 5 stars
Vulpis Ecclectica reviewed Vector by Robyn Arianrhod
Very wothwile reading!
5 stars
Arianrhod balances effortlessly the line of explanation. This book is about history and creativity and while a good deal of concepts are needed for the understanding of how one thing leads to another - each is brushed against with enough detail to see the path of development but not so much that the experience becomes tedious or alienating; it may even pique enough curiosity to dive into new fields!
Vulpis Ecclectica finished reading Vector by Robyn Arianrhod
Genuinely very interesting!
Vulpis Ecclectica started reading Vector by Robyn Arianrhod
Page 90: quite interesting so far - while not as in depth in this regard as I had expected - more time than usual (none in some textbooks I have read) is given to explore non Eurocentric developments in the field
Vulpis Ecclectica rated Chomsky On Anarchism: 4 stars
Vulpis Ecclectica reviewed Delay, deny, defend by Jay M. Feinman
Review of 'Delay, deny, defend' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Fascinating book, many good points. Though in my personal opinion it is flawed in its fundamental premise, considering as stated in the introduction it presupposes a world in which pure capitalism is the only viable system thus meaning insurance is entirely necessary and therefore must be improved upon. I believe this is false and that when a more equitable system is put into practice the problem can be solved at the root by removing the insurance industry in its entirety (through public housing, medical care, ubi etc) by human rights and needs being in their essence met. This does not mean there is nothing to be learned from the book, that would be an entirely useless statement for there is something to learn from everything and i do recommend reading
Vulpis Ecclectica rated This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances: 3 stars
Vulpis Ecclectica rated Maeve Fly: 5 stars
Vulpis Ecclectica rated The Future: 5 stars

The Future by Naomi Alderman
When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful …









