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Post by Starshine on Oct 8, 2022 15:01:26 GMT -5
Recently finished ‘Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule our World’ by Christopher Steiner.
It’s an older book, but it’s really ahead of its time in a lot of ways. It’s also genuinely interesting reading about how many fields had been slowly taken over by bots even back around the early 2010’s. If it was written today, I’d expect so e differences on opinions, especially on such areas that were painted in positive lights, like Facebook’s targeted advertising and user monitoring, which drawbacks we’ve seen were actually predicted as a potential risk problem we could face.
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Timeless Hayterade
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Oct 8, 2022 15:07:18 GMT -5
I recently read The Color Purple, and god damn, was it intense.
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Post by Gremlin on Oct 8, 2022 19:57:45 GMT -5
I've been working my way through a pile of Mad Magazine ranging from the 70s to the 90s.
It counts.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Oct 11, 2022 11:23:08 GMT -5
Just finally finished Taking Shape, the first of two books about the Halloween series. Discusses all the movies up to 2018, and has behind the scenes stuff, interviews, reviews, etc. There's a sequel book that focuses on unused scripts for the franchise.
I am also reading James Arena's "Fright Night on Channel 9," devoted to a horror movie showcase on one of our local channels in NYC.
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