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Daniel Strokis

talzag@sfba.club

Joined 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I love science fiction, but I’ve been branching out more into fantasy, mystery, and even some romance. It’s always fun to explore unfamiliar genres!

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Manisha Sinha: The slave's cause : a history of abolition (2016, Yale University Press)
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Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con (Hardcover, 2023, Verso)
R. F. Kuang: Babel (EBook, 2022, Harper Voyager)

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Richard Ellis: The search for the giant squid (1999, Robert Hale, The Crowood Press)
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Christina Thompson: Sea people : the puzzle of Polynesia (2019)
Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions of St. Augustine (Paperback, Revell)

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William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist (Hardcover, 1971, Buccaneer Books)
Wendy Liu: Abolish Silicon Valley (2020)
Isaac Asimov: Prelude to Foundation (1988)

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commented on Practicing New Worlds by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Andrea Ritchie, adrienne maree brown: Practicing New Worlds (2023, AK Press) No rating

Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and …

AK Press has made 6 e-books free to download for a limited period: www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

  • Practicing New Worlds - Abolition and Emergent Strategies
  • Street Rebellion - Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
  • No Pasarán! - Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
  • The Operating System - An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
  • Joyful Militancy - Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
  • Emergent Strategy - Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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quoted The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine (Hardcover, 2007, Metropolitan Books) 5 stars

An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, …

“Even in 2007, Chile remained one of the most unequal societies in the world—out of 123 countries in which the United Nations tracks inequality, Chile ranked 116th, making it the 8th most unequal country on the list.52 If that track record qualifies Chile as a miracle for Chicago school economists, perhaps shock treatment was never really about jolting the economy into health. Perhaps it was meant to do exactly what it did—hoover wealth up to the top and shock much of the middle class out of existence.”

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finished reading Silicon Alleys by Gary Singh

Gary Singh: Silicon Alleys (Paperback, Gary Singh) No rating

In 2005, the editors of Metro Silicon Valley, San Jose’s alternative weekly newspaper, offered Gary …

This collection of articles if full of so many gems. I had no idea just how influential the Bay Area, and in particular the South Bay, has had on the world. That’s not the point of this collection, but it’s apparent when you read about who grew up here, or studied here, or lived here, and were influenced by this place.