XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.
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33% complete! Ian Brown has read 4 of 12 books.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Another genre-bending romp from @scalzi@mastodon.social. Fast and fun, this book was a great bit of mental floss to kick off another year of reading. As always Scalzi delivers laugh-out-loud lines with clever dialog and banter. Pick up a copy at your local bookstore or at the nearest public library ASAP.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Looking forward to this. Need a brain-floss book.
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how …
Looking forward to starting @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social's new book.
A rather compelling read so far.
Here we go again. Not sure I am emotionally ready for a return to this universe.
I am reading this not to understand Elon Musk. I don't give a shit what made him a damaged human, bigot, and all around dickhead. I just want to read the parts about the Twitter takeover and the aftermath.
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about …
The nature of capital has changed: it once was mainly land but has become primarily housing plus industrial and financial assets. Yet it has lost none of its importance.
— Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (Page 65)
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about …
It was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.
— Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (Page 64)
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about …
Capital is never quiet: it is always risk-oriented and entrepreneurial, at least at its inception, yet it always tends to transform itself into rents as it accumulates in large enough amounts—that is its vocation, its logical destination.
— Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (Page 63)
Tough to read many of these. Children, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers...so many meet a sad end. Also wild to see the accepted practices of the world at the turn of the century. Worth a read, but buckle up and brace yourself for a rough go.
Pretty grim...stories from another age, full of death and disappointment.
But clearly no god can be more malevolent than a man-god.
— The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore (Penguin twentieth-century classics) (Page 54)
