Little Brother
Creator(s): Cory Doctorow | Kirby Heyborne |
Franchise: Little Brother |
Medium: book |
Date Reviewed: 10 February 2023
Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
To my own surprise, I’ve been getting into audiobooks recently, and having listened to Doctorow’s “Walkaway,” I decided to revisit his Little Brother series in audio form. Parts of the first book haven’t aged well (including some language that was bad enough to be edited out of the print version I have), and while I enjoy Doctorow’s opinions, they sometimes overwhelm the story here. That said, to quote TVTropes, some anvils are worth dropping, and the messages about privacy, surveillance, and civil liberties are as relevant as ever, I don’t know if I enjoyed the book as much as I did my first time through, but I still like it enough to give it four hearts.
Similar Posts:
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 “Don’t install spy on a privacy lab,” and other lessons for university provosts – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare, and we ought to be concerned | Ars Technica'
🔗 linkblog: People Can’t Stop ‘Spotify Snooping’ on Friends, Exes and Crushes - WSJ'
In the Canvas LMS main interface, it describes analytics reports as based on “near real-time data.” In documentation, it specifies that “near real-time” is “may be delayed by 40 hours.”
Canvas: “You can draw conclusions about student participation with our analytics!” Also Canvas: “Mobile page view data aren’t exact, and our analytics only update every 24 hours, so don’t draw too many conclusions, lol.”
Comments:
You can click on the <
button in the top-right of your browser window to read and write comments on this post with Hypothesis. You can read more about how I use this software here.