Ghost Work

Ghost Work

ByMary L. Gray,Siddhartha Suri,+1 more
2019 • 288 pages

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Technically Wrong
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

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Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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Economics

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Economic Science Fictions
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

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Politics

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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
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Alex + Ada
My Absolute Darling
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Non Fiction

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Men Explain Things to Me
When Breath Becomes Air
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Thank You for Being Late
Lab Girl
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
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2023

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Technology

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Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery
Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
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Coders at Work
Close to the Machine

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Todays Culture

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Thank You for Being Late
The Mother of All Questions
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
The End of Absence
Smarter Than You Think
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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Algorithmic

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Laws of Simplicity
Coders at Work
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Labor

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Detroit
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Behind the Screen
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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Technology

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Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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Silicon Values
Behind the Screen
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2025

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The Strange Bird
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Slaughterhouse 5
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Capitalism

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Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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Antifascist Praxis

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Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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Computer Science

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California

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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