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April 25, 2024

A Biased Judgement The Sherlock Holmes Diaries 1897

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Free Download Geri Schear, "A Biased Judgement: The Sherlock Holmes Diaries 1897"
English | 2014 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 178092674X | EPUB | 1,9 mb
Sherlock Holmes thrives on danger. Sudden knife attacks, being stalked, and facing a network of assassins present little more than a cheery break in the monotony. But the enigmatic Lady Beatrice presents danger of a different kind. Is she a murderer or a potential victim? Or something even more perilous? Uncovering her secrets could change Holmes’s life forever, and in ways even he cannot anticipate. The newly-discovered Holmes diaries shed light on a tale so potent, Watson was never permitted to reveal it.

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January 4, 2024

Earmarked for Collision A Highly Biased Tour of Collage Animation

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Free Download Earmarked for Collision: A Highly Biased Tour of Collage Animation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032103124 | 144 Pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB
Collage art and film date back to the early 20th century (the earliest collages have roots in 12th-century Japan). It was rooted in the age of consumerism where artists addressed an array of political and social issues by creating a carefully crafted collision of pre-existing images and sounds to generate new meanings and commentaries on the surrounding world.

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January 4, 2024

Technically Wrong Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech [Audiobook] (2024)

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Free Download Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Audiobook)
English | October 10, 2017 | ASIN: B075Y7J3S2 | M4B@62 kbps | 5h 42m | 155.57 MB
Author: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Narrator: Andrea Emmes
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It’s time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who’s not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.

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