Peter Murray finished reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
New York Timesbestseller Cory Doctorow'sRed Team Bluesis a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken …
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New York Timesbestseller Cory Doctorow'sRed Team Bluesis a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken …
A cosmic perspective and the rationality of science Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is hard to know what attention-deficit-disorder is like when you don’t have it. But if it is anything like this author’s portrayal, the. I have a new understanding and appreciation for the coping mechanisms that those with ADD employ to live in a neurotypical world. Wow, that can be distracting!
A good story with plenty of geeky details to satisfy any computer or networking nerd. Not sure how it is taken by the average reader, but Lucas certainly knows his audience.
Captain Crunch? Chapp had to be a telephony hacker. Telephony folks were all a little cracked, and Dale avoided voice protocols as much as possible. The FCC didn’t see much difference between “misconfiguration” and “felony.”
— $ git sync murder by Michael Warren Lucas (git commit murder, #2) (70%)
The starkly humorous nature of the FCC stuck out to me.
Many are now tagged, and more all the time. There is coming into being a kind of Internet of Animals, whatever that means. Better perhaps to say they are citizens now, and have citizens’ rights, and therefore a census is being taken.
— Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (88%)
Internet-of-Things...meet "Internet-of-Animals". What happens when animal tracking studies intersect with ubiquitous data availability? This dystopian/utopian view (which on, I think, is left as an exercise to the reader).
This isn’t a dystopian story, nor is it a utopian story. It is a reality-based guess of what could happen. In this possible reality, the world struggles to put a cost on the effect that climate damage will have on new generations. The world’s governments are forced to deal with citizen uprisings to address those costs. With a combination of capitalism (including…ugh…a blockchain currency) and climate activism, the levels of carbon in the atmosphere crest and decrease. But that is just the start of untangling the human population’s Gordian knot; it is not (yet?) the utopian future.
This was a 10%-per-day book for me: each day I’d read 10% plus the remainder of the chapter. The book is written in a dense style with a constantly shifting viewpoint, and it takes a while to digest the author’s meaning.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …
Excellent non-fiction and elegantly crafted dive into cryptocurrency tracing and the law enforcement actions that came out of them. After the four stories are told, the last chapters are a nuanced exploration of the light and dark sides of making every financial transaction traceable or untraceable.
Excellent non-fiction and elegantly crafted dive into cryptocurrency tracing and the law enforcement actions that came out of them. After the four stories are told, the last chapters are a nuanced exploration of the light and dark sides of making every financial transaction traceable or untraceable.
Full of interesting facts and processes, the premise of the book got a little old after a while. I found I could only read a few chapters at a time, the. Set it down and come back after a few days. This is a survival guide I would want should the need ever arise, and at that point I would certainly look past the pedantic story arc.