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J'aime les livres, parfois je les déchire. Je lis moitié de la SF, moitié des livres politiques et moitié d'autres trucs. Lis et commente en anglais et français. Administrateur de l'instance.

Reading half Sci-Fi, half political books, half other things. Read and comment books in English or French. Instance admin.

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Kate Conger, Ryan Mac: Character Limit (2024, Penguin Publishing Group)

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the …

What a douche

In some ways this is a parallel companion piece to Nick Bilton’s Hatching Twitter, and the authors actively consulted that book while writing this one. I was expecting Musk to come off incredibly badly, and he does; I was not necessarily expecting the wider cast of sycophants and narcissists, up to and including the biographer Walter Isaacson. There’s no pretense of objectivity here - Musk’s associates are repeatedly referred to as “goons” - and in a way that’s a detraction. The unadorned facts themselves are already an indictment. But this is grippingly told - and takes on a new meaning given Musk’s involvement in the second Trump administration. Someone please stage an intervention.

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a publié une critique de Jews Don't Count par David Baddiel

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2021, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People …

A needed provocative book on antisemitism

I really enjoyed reading "Jews don't count", David Baddiel is a British and Jewish writer and comedian who has always been open about being Jewish and confronting progressive people and collective with their knowledge and position on antisemitism. And it is exactly what this book is doing: it is providing many examples where antisemitism is not considered in the same way we consider other forms of racism in progressive circles. One example given in the book is the musical The Color Purple from Alice Walker where the actress Seyi Omooba was removed from her role for homophobia but no one raised the antisemitic statements made by Alice Walker. With all these examples Baddiel asks: why are we considering antisemitism as a second-class racism? Why aren't we applying the same concepts to antisemitism than for other forms of racism? And what I really appreciated, is that the book aims at asking …