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@vmousseau All the quotes you shared from this were absolute fire.

I probably will get back to this one day, but AI/machine learning/algorithm discourse is so demoralizing and discouraging to me that the idea of revisiting this book right now is really too much. But maybe one day.

Another Maggie Appleton antilibrary find. Considering that I have very poor opinions about the place of advertisements in society, let alone digital spaces, this seems right up my alley. I think. I hope? We shall see. Throwing on the TBR pile!

@vmousseau This book sounds intensely interesting.

This just floated across my feed and it looks really interesting. Throwing it on the TBR.

The Earth is a dynamic planet of shifting tectonic plates that is responsive to change, particularly when there is a dramatic climate transition. We know that at the end of the last Ice Age, as the great glaciers disappeared, the release in pressure allowed the crust beneath to bounce back. At the same time, staggering volumes of melt water poured into the ocean basins, warping and bending the crust around their margins. The resulting tossing and turning provoked a huge resurgence in volcanic activity, seismic shocks, and monstrous landslides -- the last both above the waves and below. The frightening truth is that temperature rises expected this century are in line with those at the end of the Ice Age. All the signs, warns geophysical hazard specialist Bill McGuire, are that unmitigated climate change due to human activities could bring about a comparable response.