I’m seldom this assertive, but this book is profoundly dumb. There are some tiny slivers of sense floating around, but they’re overshadowed completely by Lanier’s bro-y, imprecise prose. The way he conflates open-source and piracy is especially infuriating. Furthermore, he just… says things? Proprietary software is inherently better than open-source because… checks notes Linus Torvalds didn’t invent the iPhone?
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olepbr rated Farvel til Eddy Bellegueule: 4 stars
Farvel til Eddy Bellegueule by Édouard Louis, Egil Halmøy
I romanen "Farvel til Eddy Bellegueule" skriver Edouard Louis sitt eget liv. Boka ble en sensasjon da den kom ut …
olepbr rated Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets: 4 stars
olepbr rated They thought they were free: 4 stars
Milton Mayer: They thought they were free (2017, University Of Chicago Press)
They thought they were free by Milton Mayer
Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their …
olepbr rated The Argonauts: 4 stars
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, Maggie Nelson
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
Maggie Nelson's The …
olepbr rated How to Do Nothing: 4 stars
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by …
olepbr reviewed You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
1 star
olepbr rated The Art of War: 4 stars
olepbr rated Inventing the future: 4 stars
Inventing the future by Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work is a 2015 monograph by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, published …
olepbr reviewed Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Bluets is a book by American author Maggie Nelson, published by Wave Books in 2009. …
5 stars
“232. Perhaps, in time, I will also stop missing you.”
olepbr rated Ekko: Et essay om algoritmer og begjær: 4 stars
Ekko: Et essay om algoritmer og begjær by Lena Lindgren
Vinner av Brageprisen for beste sakprosabok 2021. Ekko var nymfen som snakket for mye. For dette ble hun dømt til …
olepbr rated Nattåpent: 3 stars
olepbr rated My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 5 stars
Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018, Penguin Random House)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …