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bookwyrm posts from 2025 / 01 / 10

  1. What a strange little book. Kinda a rehash and very abridged version of Levy’s Hackers that begins in WW1 and ends post-snowden. Especially strange to finish on hackers fighting back against the government and corporate attempts to run “the internet” as I was descending to land at DCA to attend the last ShmooCon in DC.

    I’m still team Evgeny Morozov re: “what’s the Internet?”

    Cover of Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web