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He's right about this

Revisado: 01-24-25

And it is a gentle, playful, and understated tour, but if you think about the what is said here for just a minute, a bigger and more disturbing set of implications will come into view. Listen to this along with drilled podcast episodes on fossil fuel involvement in research agendas and then you will beg your kids to apply to Canadian schools,

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Is an alien reading the audible version?

Revisado: 10-11-24

Its not the kind of story that should put me to sleep. And yet, i'm afraid this monotonous reading is making me drift off...

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Pretty funny stuff

Revisado: 03-12-24

I sat in berkeley getting a phd ignoring tech as many of my friends got fabulously wealthy -- i knew this scene was important but i found it boring and soulless- it is fun to have this narrator to show me that the inside story was almost exactly as i suspected-- not a lot of surprises here, but kara swisher has a cute voice with a lot of bravado and a healthy amount of self deprecation. She offers a kind of compass for a path with some degree of integrity and strong principles, despite a somewhat naive faith in the fundamentals of market power here prior to the period covered. My head hurt every time she used the word "grok" (too many times!) and i wondered whether the mispelling of "mensches" was supposed to be a clever joke that I couldn't get, but I finished this book in one night because it she does have cute and compelling style and seems to be a smart, insightful presence despite the insider position... also glad to hear that newsom did not succumb to pressure to wear a diaper (!) -- what a world... in a few minutes we will look back and this book may look like a light gloss on sometimes much more grotesque than anyone is willing to see or say right now, as a student of history should know, and as anyone in inland CA will tell you -- the erasure of labor is hard to bear and irritated me a lot... but for now, it is still possible to forget the horror of warehouse deaths in the pandemic and the pervasive dread around me as people try to anticipate what is coming next from these folks-- for now, this book is pretty insightful, pretty funny, and hard to put down.

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Illuminating research; flattering criticism

Revisado: 02-16-24

Good storytelling and rigorous research; seems to be framed as an intervention in the escalating internal struggle among Zionists-- powerful on its own terms, but narrowly framed in that sense-- in the sense of presuming an audience that possesses an increasingly rare sensibility of one that truly cares about such a struggle; one that has not either rejected Zionism as irredeemable or succumbed to a dissociative posture rooted in denial, nostalgia, or some variety of grotesque nihilism.

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Stunning and masterful

Revisado: 01-18-24

I am in awe of this stunning achievement and could not stop listening to this story. Kuang succeeds in harnessing the dark emotional energies of commodification & racism to charge a story that will awaken and empower cynical audiences that are expecting to be manipulated

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Crazy, cringey, brilliant

Revisado: 07-10-23

If you lived through this period, you will see that this is not quite what it seems to be at first. It is a pretty brilliant reflection on displaced shame associated with GW Bush years and the invasion of Iraq. Saturated with atmospheric reminders of this period — funny and grotesque — and pretty wild

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Brilliant

Revisado: 01-22-22

Beautiful prose, insightful commentary — this is a major work that is delivered in elegant style. Something to savor.

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