Year: 2019
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To my guardian angel,
We weren’t meant to have our own fairytale ending, instead we were meant to hold on to our love till our last breaths. We might not be together but our souls will always be connected. We will always keep what we had to ourselves cause no-one will get it. Our love is ours and it…
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How Google and Facebook Spawned Surveillance Capitalism (NYT)
“Surveillance capitalism has taken human experience, specifically private human experience, and unilaterally claimed it as something to be bought and sold in the marketplace,” Dr. Zuboff told me during a visit to The Times’s office.
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Six picks for hockey #romancegoals
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Characters We’d Like to Give Hugs to
Certain characters just need a really good hug. You know who I’m talking about. That character: the dark and twisty one with emotional baggage up the wazoo and too many dangerous pastimes. Here are just a few characters, I personally feel need an extra hug this year. Please chime in with your own nominees for…
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Where Our Editors Are Traveling in 2019
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The Best Tarot Decks for Beginners
Everything you need to get started with Tarot including the best Tarot decks for beginners and the best Tarot books for beginners, too.
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Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism (L.A. Review of Books)
Like another recent masterwork of economic analysis, Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the book challenges assumptions, raises uncomfortable questions about the present and future, and stakes out ground for a necessary and overdue debate.
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The Broken Earth Trilogy in Order by N. K. Jemisin
Each book in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy—The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky—won the Hugo Award for Fiction.
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HBG Big News This Week: January 14-18, 2019
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What Does Socialism Have to Do with Sex? (New Yorker)
The virtue of Ghodsee’s smart, accessible book is that it illustrates how it might be possible for a woman — or, for that matter, a man — to have an entirely different structural relationship to something as fundamental as sex, or health.
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Exploring Love with Five Road Trip Romances
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The New Big Brother (WSJ)
Tech companies have shown themselves to be increasingly cavalier with our personal data. Are we handing over too much information? Frank Rose reviews “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff.