"In fact, artifical intelligence as we know it depends entirely on a much wider set of political and social structures. And due to the capital required to build AI at scale and the ways of seeing that it optimizes AI systems are ultimately designed to serve existing dominant interests. In this sense, artificial intelligence is a registry of power."

The introduction is already so fascinating - excited to read a book about AI clearly not written by a STEM fetishist that actually tackles how the inequities of our world are mirrored in this emerging technology. I already know I'm going to be remembering that last sentence every time I'm forced to engage with AI for work (side note - my boss is literally putting together an "AI Task Force" which horrifies me)

the cat has always freaked me out in the film adaptation—i feel the exact same with the book 😭 and this was for children?

Self control? Never heard of it. Seriously tho, I have such a bad problem with buying books. Sure there's worse things to be spending money on, but still damn. I'm still reading alot of books, but I'm making zero progress on my physical tbr because I'm just barely reading more than I'm buying. I need tips on what rules to set for myself and ones that actually work for my brain. I've tried limiting myself to only be able to buy one book if I read x amount of books that I already have, and it works but also doesn't. There's just so many books I want to read, and I feel like I need every single one of them. 😫 Also I'm conflicted about the argument that reading books and buying books are two separate hobbies. I deffinetly treat it like they are, but I feel like it should go hand in hand. I feel like the optimal situation would be to not buy any books until there's no physical tbr left, that way you can just go to the store and pick out your next read, and be able to start reading right away without the looming knowledge that there's however many books collecting dust on the shelf. I'm also mainly talking about buying new books, not dupes of a book that is already owned. To me the only reason to have more then one copy of a book would be to have second one that you can lend out to people, or if the one you already have has sentimental value and you want to preserve it. (Special editions are just cash grabs, and no one can convince me otherwise) Anyway, this was just a giant rambling thought 😗