Blood in the Machine

Blood in the Machine

By
Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant
2023 • 550 pages

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398 books

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It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Chess Artist
Rule 34

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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
Ego Is the Enemy

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Audio

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History

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Victorian London
Henry IV, Part 2
The Fifth Knight
Decoding the Heavens
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
The Cruel Sea
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

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47 books

2024 Challenge

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I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary
The Wolves of Savernake
Our Man in Havana
Passenger 13
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Radio

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Fahrenheit 451
The Caves of Steel
Trigger Mortis
Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia
The Ipcress File
I Am Legend
The Red-Headed League

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Politics

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What Happened
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

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Nonfiction

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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Technology

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Ghost Work
Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Internet Is Not the Anwer
Silicon Values
Behind the Screen
Hard Drive

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Policy

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Speaking Truth to Power: Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Thinking Like an Economist
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Color of Law
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
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Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It

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Social History

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History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
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Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
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Kindle Purchase

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Ebooks I Own

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Microhistory

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Labor History

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All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Wobblies
Subterranean Fire

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Technology

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Never Use Futura
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Fabric of Civilization
Permanent Record

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Big Data

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Blood in the Machine
Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
More Numbers Every Day: How Data, Stats, and Figures Control Our Lives and How to Set Ourselves Free
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour
The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
Predict and Surveil

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