From d5b4d491e308549781de75d8c23c1352a08bd979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lethe Beltane Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 08:03:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] New book list: At least ten books by women about artificial intelligence (AI), both for and against --- recs/anti_ai.html | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ recs/consumerism.html | 11 +++++++++++ recs/writing.html | 29 +++++++++++++++++++--------- recs/zeitgeist.html | 28 +++++++++++++-------------- 4 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/recs/anti_ai.html b/recs/anti_ai.html index 941e26c..23bfb7a 100755 --- a/recs/anti_ai.html +++ b/recs/anti_ai.html @@ -75,6 +75,50 @@
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AI Needs YouVerity HardingCasual
As Jessica Montgomery of the University of Cambridge has highlighted, a survey from 2017 indicated that the public felt AI-enabled art was the least useful AI technology, and yet we've seen hundreds of millions of dollars invested into programs that use AI to generate images.
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Future TenseMartha BrockenbroughCasual
A computer can multiply two 20-digit numbers with speed and accuracy. This would be hard for even a math champ.
But a human can button a shirt, tie shoes, or fix a bowl of cereal with milk - things that would be tough to accomplish for an AI-powered robot.
Human beings think the multiplication challenge is hard. We think getting dressed and eating breakfast is easy. But when it comes to the computational power each task takes, we have it backward.
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The AI ConEmily M. BenderCasual
Corrado himself admits that he wouldn't want the tool to be a part of his family's "healthcare journey." But in the same breath, he says the large language model will take "the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and [expand] them by 10-fold." (We note that a tenfold increase on zero is still zero. So his statement might actually be technically true.)
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Code-DependentMadhumita MurgiaCasual
Empathy teaches us that everyone is flawed, yet still worthy of mercy. A risk score says the opposite: this is your digitally fixed reality, you have criminality inside you waiting to burst out. Your circumstances mean you don't deserve forgiveness.
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> Show books by men too?

> Aahh! Never mind!

diff --git a/recs/consumerism.html b/recs/consumerism.html index 41905d6..1eb0d48 100755 --- a/recs/consumerism.html +++ b/recs/consumerism.html @@ -198,6 +198,17 @@ There never will be a "catching up" on either a social or individual basis in relation to continually changing technological requirements. For the vast majority of people, our perceptual and cognitive relationship to communication and information technology will continue to be estranged and disempowered because of the velocity at which new products emerge... if and when such devices are introduced (and no doubt labeled as revolutionary), they will simply be facilitating the perpetuation of the same banal exercise of non-stop consumption, social isolation, and political powerlessness, rather than representing some historically significant turning point. +
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Waste WarsAlexander ClappCasual
Our consumption patterns - resulting from the production and use of those goods and services - now stand responsible for more than half of all carbon emissions. Every day, the world discards 1.5 billion plastic cups, 250 million pounds of clothes, 220 million aluminum cans, 3 million tires. For every human being alive right now, there exists slightly more than one ton of discarded plastic out there somewhere, scattered on land or layered in the ground or adrift at sea... In the ocean alone, per every human, there exist 21,000 pieces of plastic, a net mass of shopping bags and six-pack rings and bottle caps that by 2050 will exceed the weight of all fish put together and is expected to double every six years for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, in just the minute it took you to read this paragraph, another million plastic bottles have been discarded and another garbage truck full of plastic has entered the seas.
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The Artist's WayThe Artist's Way Julia Cameron Casual
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The Writing LifeThe Writing Life Annie Dillard Casual
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The Wave in the MindThe Wave in the Mind Ursula K. Le Guin Casual
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Big MagicBig Magic Elizabeth Gilbert Casual
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Make Your Art No Matter WhatBeth PickensBeth Pickens Casual
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A Poetry HandbookA Poetry Handbook Mary Oliver Casual
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How to Suppress Women's WritingHow to Suppress Women's Writing Joanna Russ Academic
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Write For Your LifeAnna QuindlenWrite For Your LifeAnna Quindlen Casual

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Dear WriterMaggie SmithCasual
To be vulnerable is to allow yourself to be seen, and sometimes it is so difficult - downright mortifying, even—to be perceived, isn't it? It's safer to sit quietly on the sidelines rather than play. It's safer to make nothing, to put nothing into the world, because then it can't be critiqued or judged, and there won't be mistakes for others to witness. If you don't try, you can't fail. It's true. But how unfulfilling is that?!
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> Show books by men too?

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At least ten books by women about the political zeitgeist in America right now (early 2025)

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The Power WorshippersKatherine StewartThe Power WorshippersKatherine Stewart Casual
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Sisters in HateSeyward DarbySisters in HateSeyward Darby Casual
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DoppelgangerNaomi KleinDoppelgangerNaomi Klein Casual
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Culture WarlordsTalia LavinTalia Lavin Casual
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Republic of LiesAnna MerlanRepublic of LiesAnna Merlan Casual
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NomadlandNomadland Jessica Bruder Casual
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UnholySarah PosnerUnholySarah Posner Casual