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"Classic quest fantasy, and a good one! So happy to have a book with humor in it again." — 18 hours, 17 min ago
"Classic quest fantasy, and a good one! So happy to have a book with humor in it again." — 18 hours, 17 min ago
One grows fond even of grief, even of desperation. When we have suffered a great deal on account of a person, we are shocked by the fact that the grief is growing less. Because we think that means, yet again, that everything, really
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“Indeed, many movies about artificial intelligence are so divorced from scientific reality that one suspects they are just allegories of completely different concerns. Thus the 2015 movie Ex Machina seems to be about an AI expert who falls in love with a female robot only to be duped and manipulated by her. But in reality, this is not a movie about the human fear of intelligent robots. It is a movie about the male fear of intelligent women, and in particular the fear that female liberation might lead to female domination. Whenever you see a movie about an AI in which the AI is female and the scientist is male, it’s probably a movie about feminism rather than cybernetics. For why on earth would an AI have a sexual or a gender identity? Sex is a characteristic of organic multicellular beings. What can it possibly mean for a non-organic cybernetic being?”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.”
― Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
― Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
“In our choices lie our fate”
― Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
― Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
“That man-made climate change is real, and potentially an existential threat to many communities around the world and many aspects of civilisation, is so well established as a scientific fact by this point that it seems kind of dull to run over the evidence again.”
― Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
― Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
“More people were killed by lawnmowers than by terrorism in the USA in the decade between 2007 and 2017, but at the time of writing, the US government has yet to launch a War on Lawnmowers. (Although, let’s be honest, given recent events you wouldn’t rule it out.)”
― Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
― Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
The American Novel Since 1945
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Welcome to Horror or Heaven, a reading group combining horror, science fiction, thrillers, mystery and more. Dig yourself a grave and explore the d ...more
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