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Critical Failures (Caverns and Creatures Book 1)

by Robert Bevan · 4 Jun 2012

side, about how neither side completely accepts you as one of their own,” Chaz paused, and then added solemnly “And there’s the possibility that you are the product of rape.” Katherine looked at him incredulously. “Where are you getting this bullshit?” “Back when I used to play these games, I read some of

The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig · 12 Aug 2020 · 291pp · 72,937 words

.’ ‘And who is that?’ ‘The librarian.’ ‘But you aren’t a real person. You’re just a . . . mechanism.’ ‘Aren’t we all?’ ‘Not like that. You are the product of some strange interaction between my mind and the multiverse, some simplification of the quantum wave function or whatever it is.’ Mrs Elm looked perturbed

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

by Michiko Kakutani · 17 Jul 2018 · 137pp · 38,925 words

Green and Sasha Issenberg, “Inside the Trump Bunker, with Days to Go,” Bloomberg, Oct. 27, 2016. Facebook revealed: Matthew Rosenberg and Gabriel J.X. Dance, “ ‘You Are the Product’: Targeted by Cambridge Analytica on Facebook,” New York Times, Apr. 8, 2018; Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison, “Revealed: 50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested for

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, May 1, 2017. Ricks, Thomas E., Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (New York: Penguin Press, 2006). Rosenberg, Matthew, and Gabriel J.X. Dance, “ ‘You Are the Product’: Targeted by Cambridge Analytica on Facebook,” New York Times, Apr. 8, 2018. Snyder, Timothy, On Tyranny (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017). Stanley, Jason, How

Consider Phlebas

by Iain M. Banks · 15 Jan 2008 · 576pp · 174,529 words

on the winning side or not. But in any event, you were fashioned, Horza. You did not evolve in a way you would call “natural”; you are the product of careful thought and genetic tinkering and military planning and deliberate design… and war; your very creation depended on it, you are the child of

The Road to Character

by David Brooks · 13 Apr 2015 · 353pp · 110,919 words

that each of us is wonderful inside. It has also encouraged self-aggrandizing tendencies. If you have lived through the last sixty or seventy years, you are the product of a more competitive meritocracy. You have, like me, spent your life trying to make something of yourself, trying to have an impact, trying to

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

by Hannah Fry · 17 Sep 2018 · 296pp · 78,631 words

essential to get the base level data.’ Something worth remembering whenever you send off for a commercial genetic report: you’re not using the product; you are the product.57 Word of warning. I’d also be a bit wary of those promises of anonymity. In 2005 a young man,58 conceived through a

Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again

by Brittany Kaiser · 21 Oct 2019 · 391pp · 123,597 words

corporate executives criminally liable for data breaches that occur as a result of negligence, as in the Equifax and Facebook data breaches. Jim Steyer’s “You Are the Product” Legislative Initiative would enshrine legal recourse for abuse of your data and ownership rights. The related bill(s) have not yet dropped but are something

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz · 3 Jun 2024 · 251pp · 68,713 words

Break America (Verbena Limited, 2019). 9. “Big Five Personality Test,” Open-Source Psychometrics Project, August 2, 2019. 10. Rosenberg, Matthew, and Gabriel J. X. Dance, “ ‘You Are the Product’: Targeted by Cambridge Analytica on Facebook,” New York Times, April 8, 2018. 11. Cadwalladr, “I Made Steve Bannon’s Psychological Warfare Tool.” 12. Jones, D

Habeas Data: Privacy vs. The Rise of Surveillance Tech

by Cyrus Farivar · 7 May 2018 · 397pp · 110,222 words

entire business model behind the free service. After all, there’s an old adage about tech companies: “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” In other words, while Gmail didn’t charge users for the service, Google routinely scans all messages and sells ads against them as a way

Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality

by Laurence Scott · 11 Jul 2018 · 244pp · 81,334 words

: Routledge, 2002 [1947]). 2 ‘The biggest thing …’, Antonio García Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine (London: Ebury, 2017), quoted in John Lanchester, ‘You Are the Product’, London Review of Books, 17th August 2017. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IMMENSE THANKS ARE due to Tom Avery, for his editorial guidance, imagination, and for keeping things real