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because today seems to be book day this is one of the best books I read this year / go see @shawnmicallef.bsky.social speak with the author @maggiehelwig.bsky.social at 7 pm Oct 13 - details / reg below reiterates housing as a moral - not financial or technical - crisis chbooks.com/Books/E/Enca...

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Encampment

ONE OF THE GLOBE AND MAIL'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD"Striking, elegant." – Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED ReviewAn activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of ...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 13h

You're welcome - exciting ! :)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13h

Plus, events are coming! Some are already listed on my website and more will be posted soon. Stay tuned: parismarx.com/speaking/

Upcoming events
- October 10: Dublin @ AI Counter Summit
- October 17: Paris @ Hacker la Tech (Mediapart)
- October 26: London @ The Art House w/ Foxglove & Macrodose
- November 3: Boston @ Harvard Book Store
- November 6: Pittsburgh @ Duquesne University
- November 9: Los Angeles @ re:publica LA
- November 18: Toronto @ Toronto Metropolitan University’s Catalyst Summit
- November 19: Vancouver @ Simon Fraser University
- November 24: Edmonton @ University of Alberta
- November 26: Waterloo @ University of Waterloo
- November 28: Dublin @ Marxism Festival

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13h

Preorders are incredibly important to a book’s success — even more than you might think! Find more preorder links and get more information on HYPERSCALE from the book’s website: hyperscalebook.com

Preorders are incredibly helpful for authors. If you are buying books to support them, preorders give them an extra boost that can become a snowball. Booksellers look at preorder numbers when they are deciding on things like which titles get the sweet, sweet spot in the window, which are at the top of their website or even just how many copies to stock. They want to pick winners their customers will like, and strong preorders are a predictor of that.

The preorders also all count as first-day sales, so big preorders increase the chance of starting out on a bestseller list, which then leads to more sales and … you can see the snowball.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 13h

pre-ordered as soon as I was able to, v happy to know it’s out soon :)

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 13h

Ben is great on questions of computer use - this book is sure to be both super thoughtful and practical, excited to read it :)

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 14h

we must be willing to push back on the idea that a good life is all about convenience.

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 14h

The inconvenient reality, however, is that if a society is sick, its computer culture will be sick too.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 15h

such a cool thing to read, really appreciate it, means a lot - thank you so much :)

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🎃👻 all hayo’s eve 👻🎃 @superhayo.bsky.social · 15h

came across this excellent work a week or so ago, and it's been drifting into my mind every time i get a chance to daydream.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 15h

Less computer is about less computer of all types. It is an intentional effort to reduce dependence on computational thinking and infrastructure. lesscomputer.ca/know-the-lim...

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 18h

Hop into the book for personal anecdotes, case studies of real data science projects, step-by-step practical guidance, career advice for data scientists, discussions of pragmatist philosophy, and more!

A screenshot of the table of contents for the book Algorithmic Realism by Ben Green

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re interested in buying the book, the biggest discounts come from Penguin Random House. Today only, use the code MITP30 to get 30% off. Any time after today, use the code READMIT20 for 20% off. (These codes require a US mailing address.) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/830500...

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Algorithmic Realism by Ben Green: 9780262055703 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A bold new vision for data science—and a practical, step-by-step guide for how data scientists can contribute to social justice. The field of data science faces a moral crisis. Despite the desires...

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 18h

Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice comes out today! I wrote this book with the mission to transform data science and AI into fields that genuinely work in service of the public interest. I hope that you’ll join me! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

A photo of the cover of the book Algorithmic Realism by Ben Green.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 16h

Governance is an immensely time-consuming activity, we are struggling to self-govern at the level of democracy, so one has to at least be skeptical about who has time to get into the community efforts that are doing the same with computers. lesscomputer.ca/know-the-lim...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 16h

If, as our thesis suggests, one of the major challenges in our society is a type of computational thinking - a ceding of decision-making to computers, and a binary of method - then the specific flavour of the type of computer isn't as relevant as it might seem. lesscomputer.ca/know-the-lim...

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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 18h

These mini essays about challenging our knee-jerk use of computation (in the context of government, democracy, culture) from @biancawylie.com are concise, thought-provoking reads. Waiting in line? Skip your doom-scroll and read one of these instead. Then think and discuss (in-person maybe?)

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less computer

reduce computer anxiety and make better tech choices by Bianca Wylie <br> handbook chapters will be published on the blog as they're written <br> __ t...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 20h

While there are a lot of reasons that each of these different approaches to the ownership and management of computer hardware and software may offer some relief from the tidal wave of what is known as "big tech", they come with their own genres of challenges. lesscomputer.ca/know-the-lim...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 20h

Because there are a lot of big and privately held computer systems, there is an obvious line of narrative that makes the alternative to private or big a corrective: national, public, small, sovereign, open, bespoke, community-run, etc. lesscomputer.ca/know-the-lim...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 20h

Because the use of computers is under more general scrutiny, there are a lot of stories being told that offer a "have your cake, eat it too" feeling. lesscomputer.ca/know-the-lim...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 20h

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 06/10/2026

Thinking in plurals makes you an easier person to collaborate with. It's also often referred to as borrowing the improv statement of "yes, and..." - acknowledging the truth or utility of one statement, and building on it with more or different. lesscomputer.ca/think-in-plu...

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 05/10/2026

just picked up my pre-order of The Politics of Lonely by @sheerspite.bsky.social from my local bookstore! support small presses and local retail and radical writers and above all the reimagination of a better world

The Politics of Lonely: Why is Friendship so Hard? by Lee Arden

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

If redundancy can't be funded or supported properly, you still start a discussion from a more expansive place before you get into discussions of trade-offs. This process helps make for more informed decisions. lesscomputer.ca/think-in-plu...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's something about how we've given up knowing for the appearance of knowing because the apparatus of appearing to know has gotten so fucking complex on its own that people can't tell the difference without putting in time that they don't want to put in (and/or don't have, because capitalism...

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 05/10/2026

Getting in trouble for calling AI agents "minions"

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Chris Polaris @chrispolaris.com · 05/10/2026

Plural thinking also leaves room for different kinds of evidence. The person choosing a system, the person using it, and the person absorbing its failures may judge the same change differently. Putting those views together can improve the question before anyone picks the best answer.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

In climate work, this may be best understood as making all efforts to engage the governments in doing the right thing about flooding, fires, and heat waves AND making plans to support each other for when that preparation doesn't happen or get funded. lesscomputer.ca/think-in-plu...

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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just had a super compelling, wide-ranging talk w @melhogan.bsky.social for Data Fix about issues discussed in my documentary Trust Control pod - about faulty notion of objectivity & neutrality in trust measurement in media & AI, residual ideas that linger in trust research, & more... Airing soon!

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TRUST CONTROL

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

"Framing any disagreement as a difference of opinion between two sides, and then asking everyone to pick a camp, is intellectually convenient. It also happens to be a really bad way of actually wrapping your head around the possibilities present in the world." - @spavel.bsky.social

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Loved this article. Reminds me of this graphic from Dan Berger (Professor of Contemporary Social Movements at Univ. of Washington)

This is how change happens by Dan Berger:

our ACTIONS are WORKING; they ARE NOT ENOUGH

NOTHING we do is SUFFICIENT; EVERYTHING we do MATTERS

we must BE STRATEGIC; we must OPERATE on multiple fronts SIMULTANEOUSLY

TIME is of the
ESSENCE; we have to ACT foR the LONG HAUL

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

love it, thanks for passing along - and thank you :)

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

The instinct and norm to think in the singular of the best, the fastest, the most well-known, etc. aligns closely with the trouble of a super narrow set of expertise being valued when talking about computer use. lesscomputer.ca/think-in-plu...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

Thinking in plurals about computer use helps build the concept of redundancy into a conversation - it helps expand thinking away from the binary of yes/no lesscomputer.ca/think-in-plu...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026