“Freedom isn‘t a blank slate she wants to tell them. Freedom is teaming and complicated and yes risky and it can only be written in the company of others.”
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“Freedom isn‘t a blank slate she wants to tell them. Freedom is teaming and complicated and yes risky and it can only be written in the company of others.”
“By definition outliers aren‘t predictable. Which also means that they‘re not profitable. Soon their actions become aberrant. Their ideas peculiar. Their lives transgressive. They are delinquents.”
pickIs it just me or are these dystopian science fiction stories starting to seem a little too real?! It‘s not much of a leap to see our government detaining those that they believe might commit a crime based on data points they establish and using them for labor or experiments or anything else. Holding them for whatever extraneous reasons they want. It‘s truly terrifying! But you know what also comes of this? Resistance! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
pickThese dystopian novels, paired with the dystopian times upon us thanks to unbelievable actions of the government is starting to be too much for me. The way the facts are manipulated in this book (the main character isn‘t wrongfully imprisoned, she‘s merely “under observation”) is so disturbing and something I can see our world sliding into. The use of technology to predict future behavior, believable. This book is unsettling. More⬇️
A rather sinister news item featured in many UK press publications this week. Scary timing for those of us who have recently read the tagged book.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-i...
pickAs all good dystopian fiction should be, this is eerily prescient and portrays a future one can almost see, and certain fully imagine. What was lacking for me is a full exploration of tech firm DreamSaver Inc; we get a chapter or two focussed on one of their developers, but nothing more and this felt a missed opportunity to take the story further. It also had echoes of other dystopian fiction I‘ve read, however overall a great read.
pickThanks to spring break, I got a lot of reading in! These were my favs for March.
pick#womensprizeforfiction This is a very well written, compelling, and uncomfortable read. Particularly uncomfortable in Trumps America. I am happy I read it, but I can't say I enjoyed it. 4 🌟
pickLast weekend I noticed a brand tote for the first time, I don‘t remember discussing it, but since then my feeds are full of Bogg Bags advertisements. I told my DIL that my phone was crawling into my head. …So is it a stretch my phone charging at my night stand could soon steal my dreams for profiling? Damn😱
pickI found this story of a retention system that holds people with elevated danger scores to allegedly prevent crimes engrossing. It has so many parallels to the current immigration approach in the US as well as mass incarceration. I do feel that the dream element should have either been more fleshed out or removed entirely. I really feel like Lalami‘s books could be exceptional with a little more editing.
