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Hailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir Starmer really, and what mark is …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Some fun stuff in here, but it felt too much like a random collection of just anything related to either Dracula or Transylvania.
Haben wir die Zeiten des Imperialismus nicht längst hinter uns gelassen?
Wenn man erwägt, in welchem Maße sich der Globale …
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to …
Good on assessing/criticizing 'green growth', left-accelerationism, SDGs, and the like. Also good on discussing Japanese thinkers and whether Japan's lost decade(s) count as degrowth. Gets a bit bogged down in analyzing whether Marx was leaning away from productivism in his later years, based on reading his unpublished notebooks. Sketches out a pretty plausible model for what degrowth communism could look like, but then gets a bit wrapped up in Chenoweth's 3.5% as all we need to achieve our ends :(
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to …
But even this goal of 35.6F represents quite a dangerous change, and many scientists are sounding the alarm that we must keep the rise in temperatures below 34.7F. And yet, Nordhaus's model would produce a rise of 38.3F.
— Slow Down by Brian Bergstrom, Kohei Saito (Page 2)
I have to assume this is a botched conversion from the original Celsius. As an absolute temperature, 35.6F is 2C, but not as a temperature difference...
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Scotland has a stunning tradition of oral storytelling, from the firesides of the nation’s legendary storytelling families to the physical …
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
Not sure why I was dissatisfied with this the first time around. There's perhaps a little more exposition than I'd like, but otherwise a fun story.
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
So I've apparently goofed on my library holds and got this before Network Effect and , while entering it into Bookwyrm, discovered that I read it only a year ago! Still hoping for a good experience...
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
