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Carissa Véliz

Philosopher at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI; author of Privacy Is Power (2020), an Economist book of the year, and Prophecy.

3 books on the record · 30 Nov 2022 – 13 May 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Though published in 1951 and focused on the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, The Origins of Totalitarianism is extremely relevant today and to some degree prophetic.

on fivebooks.com · 13 May 2026 · Report

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Zed by Joanna Kavenna

It’s called Zed and it’s by Joanna Kavenna.

on fivebooks.com · 30 Nov 2022 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.