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Pia Mancini is an activist and technical project leader from Argentina. She is co-founder of Democracy Earth and Open Collective. The latter is a project that facilitates open source code contributors to receive donations for their labour.
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The XX Brain
The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Prevent Dementia
Dr. Lisa Mosconi - 2021-03-04
Pia Mancini
2023-02-17T18:57:30.000Z
Also, very much recommend Lisa Mosconi’s latest book for a deep dive on women’s brain health 🧠. The space of medicine for women is ready to 🚀🚀🚀      source
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The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow - 2021-11-09
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A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and chil...
Pia Mancini
2021-12-26T16:21:02.000Z
@elipariser I’m currently reading this. I’m enjoying it.      source
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Unveiled
How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
Yasmine Mohammed - 2019-09-25
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel meets The Handmaid's Tale Since September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about the faith is polarized—one camp praises "the religion of peace" while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed believ...
Pia Mancini
2020-12-28T22:40:16.000Z
What a courageous book. @YasMohammedxx is a strong and brave woman. Read her.      source
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino - 2019-08-08
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From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politicsWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent...
Pia Mancini
2020-08-04T23:58:51.000Z
This book is great! Super sharp. @jiatolentino 🌈🔥      source
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Neuromancer
William Gibson - 2000-07-01 (first published in 1984)
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Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cybe...
Pia Mancini
2019-10-04T10:41:48.000Z
@Fede_Bada amazing book      source