diff --git a/assets/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png b/assets/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d59938e0 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png differ diff --git a/content/attachements/security-culture-toolkit/Security_FORCE_Survey.zip b/content/attachements/security-culture-toolkit/Security_FORCE_Survey.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 0ede84a47..000000000 Binary files a/content/attachements/security-culture-toolkit/Security_FORCE_Survey.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/books/ghost-work.md b/content/books/ghost-work.md index d667ef507..32ad79934 100644 --- a/content/books/ghost-work.md +++ b/content/books/ghost-work.md @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ aliases: - Ghost Work cover: /imgs/ghost-work.png created: 2023-06-29T23:00:43+10:00 -modified: 2023-08-17T20:56:40+10:00 -status: In Progress +modified: 2023-08-19T15:29:06+10:00 +status: "Completed" +completed: 2023-08-17 tags: - book - technology @@ -30,9 +31,15 @@ They often earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no heal published on 2019 by Eamon Dolan Books -## High-Level Thoughts +## Summary -## Summary Notes +## Themes + +## 3 Main Takeaways + +## Quotes + +## Other Notes Grey notes within the first few pages that on-demand work isn't inherently good or bad, a sentiment I disagree with, in later pages, she talks about how people working in ghost work often have this sense of urgency to not only accept a job,[^1] but to complete the task accurately or risk losing income. To me this aligns to the [[white supremacy]] cultural habit.[^2] We see that by applying this sense of urgency it perpetuates a power imbalance between employee and employer while disconnecting ghost workers from their need to pause and reflect, which would guarantee a higher success rate and the need for companies to pay them more. @@ -58,7 +65,7 @@ Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Larry Page are people who have expressed panic ab Foxconn, who make iPhones apparently replaced 60,000 humans with robots in 2016.[^4] -In 2016, Amazon's 20 fulfilment centres apparently deployed 45, 00 robots to work alongside 230,000 people. In 2019, Amazon started rolling out machines to automate boxing up customer orders[^5]. +In 2016, Amazon's 20 fulfilment centres apparently deployed 45, 00 robots to work alongside 230,000 people. In 2019, Amazon started rolling out machines to automate boxing up customer orders.[^5] Robots and automations often allow employers to have what they want, when they want it, which allows them to avoid navigating the the problems of negotiating with employees for better, safer working conditions. It also means they no longer need to deal with the classification of types of work, or engaging with the employment laws that are protecting humans. diff --git a/content/books/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.md b/content/books/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..91ae27b57 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/books/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: "How to Stand Up to a Dictator" +alias: + - "How to Stand Up to a Dictator" +cover: "/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png" +alt: "How to Stand Up to a Dictator Book Cover" +created: 2023-08-19T15:29:47+10:00 +modified: 2023-08-19T15:47:03+10:00 +status: "In Progress" +tags: +- book +- political-science +- politics +- memoir +- history +- biography +- journalism +- asia +- sociology +--- + +*What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte.* + +*Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for - while she stands trial for speaking the truth.* + +*How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation - a heinous web of cause and effect - that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes. Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.* + +**authored by** [[Maria Ressa]] + +published on 2022-11-17 by Random House + +## Summary + + +## Themes + + +## 3 Main Takeaways +- +- +- + +## Quotes + + +## Other Notes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png b/content/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d59938e0 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/imgs/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator.png differ diff --git a/content/templates/book.md b/content/templates/book.md index ce4cb04fb..df628290c 100644 --- a/content/templates/book.md +++ b/content/templates/book.md @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ <%* const title = "{{title}}" -const fileTitle = title.replace(/ /g, "-").toLowerCase(); - let authors = "{{author}}".split(','); let genre = "{{category}}".split(','); @@ -19,10 +17,12 @@ alias: cover: "{{coverUrl}}" created: <% tp.file.creation_date("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ") %> modified: <% tp.file.creation_date("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ") %> +started: <% tp.file.creation_date("YYYY-MM-DD") %> +completed: status: "Backlog" tags: - book -<% genre.map(line => `${line}\n`.toLowerCase()) -%> +<% genre.map(line => `- ${line}\n`.toLowerCase()) -%> --- {{description}} @@ -31,8 +31,20 @@ tags: published on {{publishDate}} by {{publisher}} -## High-Level Thoughts +## Summary + + +## Themes + + +## 3 Main Takeaways +- +- +- + +## Quotes + +## Other Notes -## Summary Notes diff --git a/content/the-antilibrary.md b/content/the-antilibrary.md index 6c660a23e..a7336a47d 100644 --- a/content/the-antilibrary.md +++ b/content/the-antilibrary.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The notes and summaries included in these pages are snippets that remind me, or {{}} -### Currenta +### Current {{}}