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A few castaways on the Galápagos survive manmade global disaster…our own undoing thanks to the Darwinian joke of oversized brains. In a million years they evolve into seal-like critters who swim & fish in bliss, free from brains pursuing ambition, ideas or purpose.
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A few castaways on the Galápagos survive manmade global disaster…our own undoing thanks to the Darwinian joke of oversized brains. In a million years they evolve into seal-like critters who swim & fish in bliss, free from brains pursuing ambition, ideas or purpose.
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A Mormon dies & enters an unexpected hell: a labyrinthine Library of Babel w/ books of random letter sequences. Finding one w/ your exact life story frees you. Everyone there struggles in their own way w/ an eternity to seek meaning… or force it on others.
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A Mormon dies & enters an unexpected hell: a labyrinthine Library of Babel w/ books of random letter sequences. Finding one w/ your exact life story frees you. Everyone there struggles in their own way w/ an eternity to seek meaning… or force it on others.
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A post-apocalyptic city under matriarchal parliament rule elects alternating queens & kings. June falls for Enki, the new king, for his love of art & justice. She learns of a partisan plot against him & they flee to another city exposing a much older secret
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A post-apocalyptic city under matriarchal parliament rule elects alternating queens & kings. June falls for Enki, the new king, for his love of art & justice. She learns of a partisan plot against him & they flee to another city exposing a much older secret
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A lab's super-intelligent AI, bound by Asimov's 3 laws, finds a quantum effect that alters reality. To protect everyone, the AI makes humans immortal in a utopia of no constraints. Some doubt this paradise has meaning & try to revert it.
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A lab's super-intelligent AI, bound by Asimov's 3 laws, finds a quantum effect that alters reality. To protect everyone, the AI makes humans immortal in a utopia of no constraints. Some doubt this paradise has meaning & try to revert it.
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A geophysicist explores carbon's cosmic origins, its ubiquity & its importance for life & the modern world. As the 6th element & 4th most abundant in the universe, carbon answers questions about Earth's origin in stellar nucleosynthesis & even about our own fate
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A geophysicist explores carbon's cosmic origins, its ubiquity & its importance for life & the modern world. As the 6th element & 4th most abundant in the universe, carbon answers questions about Earth's origin in stellar nucleosynthesis & even about our own fate
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Examines who controls a money's ledger (eg. ancient credit, state tokens, cryptocurrencies). Banks manage partial ledgers as clearinghouses; gov't has the master ledger & fractional reserve fears are misplaced. Claims cryptocurrency fixes our flawed financial system
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Examines who controls a money's ledger (eg. ancient credit, state tokens, cryptocurrencies). Banks manage partial ledgers as clearinghouses; gov't has the master ledger & fractional reserve fears are misplaced. Claims cryptocurrency fixes our flawed financial system
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Argues globalization/trade will harmfully reverse as nations shift to autarky due to geopolitics, demographics & geography; peak trade/growth/globalization of 1950-2020 is withering. His geo/demographic fatalism is a bit reductionist.
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Argues globalization/trade will harmfully reverse as nations shift to autarky due to geopolitics, demographics & geography; peak trade/growth/globalization of 1950-2020 is withering. His geo/demographic fatalism is a bit reductionist.
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Original cyberpunk, corporate-ruled dystopia where consciousness is a commodity to buy & sell. Case, a hired hacker & Molly, the muscle, attempt a cyberspace heist of an AI. He needs the payday for a bio-implant fix, as his tech proves addicting, not liberating.
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Original cyberpunk, corporate-ruled dystopia where consciousness is a commodity to buy & sell. Case, a hired hacker & Molly, the muscle, attempt a cyberspace heist of an AI. He needs the payday for a bio-implant fix, as his tech proves addicting, not liberating.
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Discordianism's scripture: a parody religion about Eris, the chaos/discord goddess. Disorder is as central as order in our cosmic joke of existence. It drapes a veil of fun whimsy on genuine philosophy to deliver enlightenment thru absurdity (The Sacred Chao)
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Discordianism's scripture: a parody religion about Eris, the chaos/discord goddess. Disorder is as central as order in our cosmic joke of existence. It drapes a veil of fun whimsy on genuine philosophy to deliver enlightenment thru absurdity (The Sacred Chao)
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A history of the US Republican Party from prior to Lincoln's transformational terms to after Reagan's ascendancy. GOP ideology shifts from serving the people to serving the plutocrats with consequences for minorities, middle class & America itself.
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A history of the US Republican Party from prior to Lincoln's transformational terms to after Reagan's ascendancy. GOP ideology shifts from serving the people to serving the plutocrats with consequences for minorities, middle class & America itself.
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A dark, Japanese classic of Yozo, a self-destructive boy, who masks his alienation w/ comic antics, addiction, failed relationships & vice. Feeling he's an impostor, or "Disqualified", as human, his efforts in love, art, politics all betray his authentic self.
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A dark, Japanese classic of Yozo, a self-destructive boy, who masks his alienation w/ comic antics, addiction, failed relationships & vice. Feeling he's an impostor, or "Disqualified", as human, his efforts in love, art, politics all betray his authentic self.
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A dying New England clockmaker, George Washington Crosby, reminisces as his memories tick through visions of his cold, itinerant, tinkerer of a father. The book is a lyrical meditation on time, brokenness & the mechanical rhythms of existence in a clockwork universe.
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A dying New England clockmaker, George Washington Crosby, reminisces as his memories tick through visions of his cold, itinerant, tinkerer of a father. The book is a lyrical meditation on time, brokenness & the mechanical rhythms of existence in a clockwork universe.
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A family's breadwinner, inexplicably turns into a monstrous, bedridden vermin. The family is aghast at his new form but provides care for him. As their patience wears thin, harmony undergoes its own metamorphosis into cruelty & isolation under this strange new burden.
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A family's breadwinner, inexplicably turns into a monstrous, bedridden vermin. The family is aghast at his new form but provides care for him. As their patience wears thin, harmony undergoes its own metamorphosis into cruelty & isolation under this strange new burden.
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A satire of religious cults with deadpan humor reminiscent of "The Office" tv show. A WWI vet buys a fake ancient tome of secret wisdom & accidentally founds the secret Gnomon Society. Conspiracy, mystical crankery, absurd rituals & lunacy unfolds.
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A satire of religious cults with deadpan humor reminiscent of "The Office" tv show. A WWI vet buys a fake ancient tome of secret wisdom & accidentally founds the secret Gnomon Society. Conspiracy, mystical crankery, absurd rituals & lunacy unfolds.
#booksky
A piece of experimental, surrealist, stream-of-consciousness literature about a misogynist vagrant in Paris. There's a few deeply raw philosophical lamentations among gratuitous vulgarity & nihilism. Not for most, but perhaps read its quote highlights.
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A piece of experimental, surrealist, stream-of-consciousness literature about a misogynist vagrant in Paris. There's a few deeply raw philosophical lamentations among gratuitous vulgarity & nihilism. Not for most, but perhaps read its quote highlights.
#booksky
Discussion of the right-wing effort towards a political disinformation media apparatus & possible steps to reverse the negative consequences on democracy. Beyond mere echo chambers, this echo machine immerses some voters in a post-truth alternate reality.
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Discussion of the right-wing effort towards a political disinformation media apparatus & possible steps to reverse the negative consequences on democracy. Beyond mere echo chambers, this echo machine immerses some voters in a post-truth alternate reality.
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An American in Berlin signs on as a US double agent to broadcast coded messages on Nazi propaganda radio, never knowing if they were heard. Does true allegiance matter if, all the while, you live a vile lie or do we become what we pretend to be?
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An American in Berlin signs on as a US double agent to broadcast coded messages on Nazi propaganda radio, never knowing if they were heard. Does true allegiance matter if, all the while, you live a vile lie or do we become what we pretend to be?
#booksky recommend