Kirjailija-kirjantekijä, kielitaiteilija ja -tieteilijä. Kirjakasan ylläpitäjä.
Luen vähän kaikenlaista, kaunoa ja tietoa, ties miten monella eri kielellä. Kirjoitan ennen kaikkea absurdia realismin rajoilla keikkuvaa proosaa.
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Taru Luojola
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Fjäderlätt men skärande beskrivning om ett kaotiskt liv med alkoholiserade föräldrar. Bladvändare. Diskuterar fattigdom, missbrukarproblematik osv. utan silkeshandskar. Insåg inte att det är hennes debut innan jag googlade, ska definitivt läsa fler av hennes verk.
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A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you think if you …
Instead of studying GNU/Linux and open source software as a tool that could help people in marginalized countries (and reduce its own academic software bills), a university beholden to generous Microsoft research partnerships will find it attractive to steer students toward Microsoft's proprietary software projects. This simply enlarges Microsoft's customer and developer base while thwarting open innovation and competition
My university does this, and its Office suite is atrocious. I'm glad that I can at least use LibreOffice on my personal laptop.
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Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace longer than six …
A few chapters in I just couldn't stop. Sharing an overall positive view of technology with books like Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky or Becky Chambers' Wayfarers Series, this novel doesn't shy away from some dark places and trusts its teenage audience to grasp the complexity of an extremely online society that is super connected but als super trackable.
Kolmen Ambergrisin kaupunkiin sijoittuvan tarinan kokoelma. Ymmärsin saatesanoista, että näitä tarinoita on paljon enemmänkin ja tämä on vain pieni otos. Jotenkin en tästä innostunut. Ihan näppäriä tarinoita, mutta... en tiedä mikä tökki. Ehkä se, että luin nämä suomeksi — suomennoksessa ei ole sinänsä mitään vikaa, mutta kirjoitustyyli on sellaista lavean nokkelaa jaarittelua, joka toimii englanniksi muttei suomeksi. Ja ymmärrän, miksi kirjaa minulle aikoinaan suositeltiin, olenhan itsekin kirjoittanut kokonaisen maailmallisen kuvitteelliseen kaupunkiin sijoittuvia tarinoita. Mutta siihen yhtäläisyydet sitten tuntuvatkin loppuvan.
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A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you think if you …
There is just one significant flaw in the tragedy [of the commons] parable. It does not accurately describe a commons. Hardin's fictional scenario sets forth a system that has no boundaries around the pasture, no rules for managing it, no punishments for overuse and no distinct community of users. But that is not a commons. ... A commons requires that there be a community willing to act as a conscientious steward of a resource
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (titled Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future in the …
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (titled Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle …
Kaunokirjallisuudeksi merkitty kokoelma Tšernobylin onnettomuuden ja sen seuraukset kokeneiden oikeiden ihmisten puheenvuoroja, eli ehkä tämä kallistuu enemmän muistelmien suuntaan. Sinänsä puheenvuorot ovat ihan kiinnostavia, mutta kirjaa rasittaa ihan loputon toisteisuus. Tarinatyyppejä on pääasiassa neljä — on pelastustöihin osallistunut varusmies tai palomies, on pelastustöihin lähetetyn varusmiehen vaimo, on kotoaan evakuoitu maalainen ja on järjestelmän järjettömyyttä päivittelevä asiantuntija tai johtaja — ja jokainen sanoo pääpiirteissään samat asiat pienin muunnelmin ja käyttäen samoja metaforia.
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It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Becky Chamber's works are rare among science fiction stories because instead of action-adventure plots they're about people talking about what it means to be alive.
The first couple of chapters felt like the plot was jumping around a hell of a lot, because they're really just backstory/preamble for the actual story
It's good that there will be a sequel because I do want to know what both Mosscap and Dex will do next
Taru Luojola
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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …
This book, ostensibly, argues that capital's endless pursuit of growth will only end in ecological catastrophe and that only by rejecting perpetual growth, and by extension capital, can we live truly fulfilling lives. I have no problem with this, and actually support this thesis. The problem arises when the author attempts to try his hand at history and bourgeois philosophy. As I've said previously, he attributes outright malevolence to actions that could easily be explained by trying to do well within imperialist/colonialist systems. Furthermore, it's painfully clear that the author has only read the wikipedia articles on the philosophies he critiques. This is doubly unfortunate because I actually agree with his conclusions regarding bourgeois philosophy and how it has historically been used. The analysis is just not up to snuff unfortunately. With a little more time and effort, this could have been great. As it is, it's just okay.
Taru Luojola
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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …
This book sure does like to imply that people doing bad things was a result of them personally being bad people, and not like... them trying to achieve a high standing in a social and political order that rewards doing bad things.
