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John Karabaic's account. he/him. BLM.

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Working for tech companies since they made hardware.

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Amor Towles's Lincoln Highway is off to a great start. Loving what appears to
be a countdown/ticking clock in the section titles. 📚💙 @bookstodon

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Just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and it is lovely and satisfying and completely steeped in midcentury culture. I can't wait to watch the adaptation; I hope it lives up to the text but has its own things to say, just as this book was inspired by Tolstoy and Chekhov and so many others. 💙📚 @bookstodon

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Just moved all my library holds back a month because I'm loving A Gentleman in Moscow so much I want to start the The Lincoln Highway right away after I'm done. 📚💙 @bookstodon

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My frustration with Sinnreich & Gilbert's The Secret Life of Data continues. How can scholars who came up with this great layered definition of data, information, & knowledge then make the statement, "Democracy is...enacted through algorithms?"

Algorithms operate on data, not the other layers.

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Democracy is, and has always been, enacted through algorithms. We don't mean computer programs, obviously, but rather algorichms in the broader sense of the word: clear operating guidelines based on quantifable and reproducible protocols and procedures.

(Throughout this book we will use the terms data, information, and knowledge a great many times. We do not treat these terms interchangeably, and we use them very deliberately. Data refers to discrete, quantitative values extracted from larger, more complex phenomena. Information refers to those mathematical values put into context and thereby given a social meaning. Knowledge refers to actionable inferences made from information by interested parties such as governments, marketers, or researchers. This flow from data to information to knowledge is, in our current society, an industrialized process, and many of the technologies and businesses we discuss are part of that pipeline.)
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    I have just started Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow because it complements my War & Peace slow read and the first chapter is lovely. I can easily imagine Count Alexander is a descendant of Count Ilya. 📚💙 @bookstodon

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