Figure 1. A map of Washington, District of Columbia. The path of a three and a quarter mile (five kilometer) walk is indicated. About 6400 steps and 177 feet (54 meters) elevation over one and a half hours, (one hour moving).
Figure 1. Cover of Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web by Scott Malcomson, published 2016.
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?”
Stop looking at the sunrise reflecting off an entire block of buildings in the distance challenge
Figure 1. street level 3x zoom phone photograph looking west from the sidewalk of Cesar Chavez st. at Showell, framed on the left by a tree and right by a light pole, Noe peak in the distance under a clear blue sky is set over a center fifth of the photo banding a few blocks of buildings reflecting a blazing sunrise on a balmy warm morning with a cold ocean breeze.
Figure 1. Cover of The South by Adolph Reed Jr., published 2022-05-03 by Verso Trade, a 176-page hardcover.
Starting the year with the slimmest book on the pile, and a memoir to boot, worked well the past two years. I forget why I wishlisted this one — I thought I’d read another Adolph Reed Jr. book but I see shelving this now that it was his son, Touré, whose “Toward Freedom” I’d enjoyed (and just added to Bookwyrm.)
