AI isn't being watered down, quite the opposite.
Path finding, computer vision, optical character recognition, machine learning and large language models were all unambiguously considered to be vAI technology before they were widespread, and now the media and general public tend to avoid the term for all but the most recent developments.
It's called The AI Effect
I suspect my local bookshop would stock most of those under "society and politics"
I don't have an answer for you that would help you find more good books, sorry.
I read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein right after Manufacturing Consent and I think that worked really well. It's got some overlap in content that helps solidify concepts, but it's a bit more modern and a much easier read (less dry)
Other recommendations
If you have any interest in economics:
If you have interest in digital freedoms and copyright law:
Just in case you're not just satirically listing things that are already awful;
Supermarkets increase their "retention" by limiting signage to keep you wandering and avoid "just get that thing and go" shopping. I don't know how common this is, but when I was a kid the major supermarkets had long lists of what items were in each aisle, plus highly visible signs in the aisle to show exactly where each category was. Now days at the major chains those in aisle signs are completely gone, and the categories have been whittled down to a few major categories; most products aren't represented on the sign at all e.g. you have to assume "cake mix/decorating" are in the same aisle as "flour".
Unskippable ads on all pumps are absolutely a thing that are getting more popular. Mobil is particularly bad for it in my experience.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing's results
There is an actually moral alternative to opt-out that doesn't have the poor-sampling problem of opt-in: ask for consent explicitly.
There are multiple ways depending on the version of electron the app was built against
Electron applications are notorious and prolific, and resolutions are very specific to versions and details of the program's build process.
Steam can be a big old flashy boi
That's very much the wrong lesson.
Simply taking std::string by value (as it is a memory management class created for that explicit purpose) would have solved the problem without kneecapping every class you make.
Better rules to take out if this than to delete all move and copy operators:
And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.
It's not important, but there is no connection between the original Steam OS and there new one. The original was an Ubuntu derivative, and there new one is an Arch derivative.
I still have Netflix, the streaming landscape is marginally less fragmented here. But fucking hell is it a bizarre chore just trying to find where on the home page "continue watching" and "my list" are today.