@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-08-01 01:20:33
How do you do EIGHTEEN American road trip books and still not include John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charlie"?!?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/books/best-road-trip-books.html
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-08-01 01:20:33
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-03 00:55:43
The province of Alberta pauses its broad ban on books depicting sex or "inappropriate" topics in schools, after backlash from authors including Margaret Atwood (Vjosa Isai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/world/canada/a…
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social2025-09-02 11:51:58
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-03 08:20:15
Read it in Two Steps: Translating Extremely Low-Resource Languages with Code-Augmented Grammar Books
Chen Zhang, Jiuheng Lin, Xiao Liu, Zekai Zhang, Yansong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01796
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-06-27 07:39:00
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-06-30 21:56:53
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-01 04:11:27
Clean books and big decisions: Cowboys at a fork in the road with roster https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/31/clean-books-big-decisions-dallas-cowboys-fork-2025/85464638007/
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-31 07:00:35
Also let's face it. Buying books in Denmark is damn expensive with a 25% vat rate. I can't afford to buy the number I read. So thank heavens for libraries.
(Youngest kid, overwhelmed by cheapness of books in English bookshop once exclaimed: "imagine if we lived here, how many books we could buy?!")
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-03 06:00:03
edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 1189 nodes and 3661 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-06-03 19:46:10
So according to a 30 year old law still on the books, bicycles in Washington have to be registered like cars https://app.leg.wa.gov/Wac/default.aspx?cite=308-330-540
And have license plates
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-07-01 04:33:46
this was a plot point in vernor vinge's "rainbow's end" (2006), retroactively part of the expanded "torment nexus" universe apparently. https://code4lib.social/@dltj/114774949197817082
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-08-28 09:10:31
It’s a bummer this bundle ends before my PyCon UK keynote (~mild spoiler~), but why don’t y’all get these 25 books on software architecture just in case?
(OF COURSE it has Architecture Patterns with Python)
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-archite…
@davidbody@fosstodon.org2025-07-31 16:58:13
Yesterday I finished reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao. I won't try to summarize or review it here, but it's an excellent book and I recommend it.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/
This is one of tho…
@samir@functional.computer2025-07-03 21:47:57
@… It comes up a lot more in the later books. I think the TV show was axed before all that.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-08-01 02:28:26
If you are part of a book club, like maybe an accessibility book club, remember that there are far better choices than Amazon for your book.
For example, this book can come from your local independent seller or benefit a support fund:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-08-02 20:15:05
Given that FFOTUS seems to be asking for a (probably nuclear) war with Russia I guess there are some books we should read and films we should watch
I'd start with these two, the second is one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen (it builds slowly to the climax, so be patient.)
Alas, Babylon - https://
@tml@urbanists.social2025-07-03 15:15:58
Came across this on Youtube. Need to look for more videos (and books) by Natalie Haynes, which I sadly (and oddly) had not encountered before. https://youtu.be/egNJXvg811g
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2025-09-02 07:24:49
Day 6 of having a BPE tokenizer consume all of Project Gutemberg and my collection of Humble Bundle books and Japanese light novels, it is now compressing things by around 75 to 80% and takes around an hour per pass
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-08-03 15:34:38
Any recommendations for cross-town moving companies in downtown Toronto and musicianably affordable? Need to teleport a whole 3br housefull of dear old worn furnishings, and a great many boxed books, papers, scores, tapes and LPs.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-30 01:17:35
"You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that when the net favorable rating of your bill is somewhere between -19 and -29 points that it's not a positive bill as viewed by the American public."
'Hate hate hate': Trump plan reportedly reaches 'history books' for unpopularity - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/awful-bill-history-books-cnn/
@christydena@zirk.us2025-09-01 22:02:42
📚 Publishing/writing colleagues! Who publishes craft chapbooks?
As in, shorter books about story design, etc. I'm looking for publishers that would not over-price them for academic libraries, and preferably are activist-friendly. ✊
It may just be that all the usual publishers are happy to do so shorter books. Thank you! ✍
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-07-02 16:21:50
🚨 STOLEN DRUMS ALERT 🚨
The House of Musical Traditions (https://hmtrad.com/) is asking for the music community's help: We were alerted by a friend of HMT that these 3 barrel-shaped Javanese drums were stolen during a home burglary in Holyoke, MA on 6/28. The owner believes that the thieves may be trying to sell…
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-07-02 18:00:56
@al3x@hachyderm.io2025-07-02 19:21:16
I am looking for a solution to combine a list of mp3s into an m4b on a macOS.
The solution should allow loading the final m4b into Apple Books.
Thank you 🙏🏼
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-08-01 18:17:00
I've just finished Lissa Evans' Small Bomb at Dimperley. I love her #books: they're well written often quite humorous easy reads with great characters.
Next up, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, followed by The Place of Tides by James Rebanks. That one's for a book group run by a local bookshop. I'm trying it for the first time in September.
Also picked…
@vform@openbiblio.social2025-08-02 18:05:03
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2025/08/02
Image description for the Nonsequitur comic:
"Books and coffee" shop. Next to the sign "Meet the best-selling co-authors 5-7pm" sits a person before a small book stack. Right next to him is an open notebooks…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-06-28 05:15:12
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Analyse der Umweltbilanz: E-Books schlagen gedruckte Bücher deutlich
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-25 21:20:43
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-01 19:13:05
Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny,
one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis.
A concentration of power
—whether by government or banks
—was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy.
In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few
whose misuse of their power induced a financ…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-08-30 11:19:51
‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/30/lit…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-08-29 14:12:12
@thek3nger@mastodon.social2025-08-01 14:59:51
July has been a month full of events. Some good. Some sad. But in both cases, I hope I did my best.
...And we have three books and a bunch of movies to talk about. Plus, the new Messa album. :)
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-july-2025/
@benb@osintua.eu2025-08-24 17:11:31
10 books to better understand Ukraine on its Independence Day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/books-to-better-understand-ukraine.html
@Allegra@social.linux.pizza2025-08-03 14:35:10
Did you know I studied electrical engineering besides work? On Thursday, I finished my bachelor's thesis with the final presentation and it's time to finally present my project: ZEReader, a microcontroller-based E-Reader.
Inspired by the Open Book Project by Joey Castillo, I designed my own platform from scratch. My focus was on building a reader usable in everyday life that is capable of handling books in the EPUB format. The project is still in a very early phase, but it shows…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-03 07:00:04
edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 3466 nodes and 13382 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
…
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-08-24 20:48:19
Es gibt aktuell ein Martha Wells-Humble Bundle, das die Murderbot-Bücher enthält und ein paar mehr. Wer Murderbot über Apple kennengelernt hat und nun gerne alle Bücher hätte, hier findet ihr sie: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-…
@elisabeth_p@social.linux.pizza2025-07-01 13:16:37
Noch einmal das Foto von drei Büchern, Romane zum Thema "Der Wiener Kreis".
Gestern fotografiert in der Ausstellung in der Wien-Bibliothek im Rathaus.
The Expert of Subtle Revision ist ein Roman der Autorin Kirsten Menger-Anderson @… #books
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizza2025-06-24 10:43:16
HumbleBundle.com have Usagi Yojimbo bundle.
Those are comic books about Rabbit Rōnin set (mostly) in Edo period (I have no clue what that period was🤦, but it sounds cool 😆)
If you like samurais, old Japan or rabbits, you might like this.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/us…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-08-01 12:11:11
using kobo forma with koreader makes me feel like i'm from the Star Trek future holding a powerful artifact
it does what it should, it's pleasant to interact with, it has good aesthetics, and it helps me understand books in a way paper doesn't (context sensitive dictionary lookup turns out to be really important for me)
it's been a day and the thing already feels like an extension of myself; and i never have to work around it
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-08-29 01:32:40
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-31 06:53:19
The article points out that the rise on borrowing and visiting libraries in Denmark is an anomaly in Europe*, which is a pity. It also rightly identified that the number of events, reading groups and a good selection of books are key to get people into libraries. IMHO, the other important factor is the digital side. It's extremely easy to see what books are available and to order from libraries across the whole country on the bibliotek.dk website.
And once you're in the library to collect one thing, it's easy to pick up a few more...
*Citation needed
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114946331036135197
Ruth_Mottram - Last year Danes borrowed 23.6 million paper books from public libraries, plus music, film, games digital loans, with 32.5 million in person library visits. It's increasing annually too.
I'm not surprised, Danish libraries are wonderful, everyone should have this.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/bibliotekernes-udlaan-stiger-tredje-aar-i-traek-vi-elsker-laese-papirboeger
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-08-27 16:35:39
Rate my bookshelf :D
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-09-01 16:00:47
an oxygen mask, but it's just the smell of mass market paperbacks #books @…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-06-30 07:35:29
Went to Threads to check if we're there yet with the federation of the eurotrash portion of the userbase. Found Zuck's currently busy no-commenting to a bunch of angry writers whose books he used to train his AI.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-07-31 20:01:02
george takei isn't a national treasure, he's a global treasure. the united states doesn't deserve him or his books, some states banning them only proves that
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-06-27 09:41:24
Ich lese E-Books, also bin ich grün?! 📚🌿 Die Stiftung Warentest hat klare Zahlen vorgelegt: E-Books sind echte Klimaschützer! 📚✨ Bei der Produktion und Auslieferung gedruckter Bücher werden über fünf Jahre mehr als zehnmal so viele Treibhausgase freigesetzt wie bei E-Books – selbst wenn man die Herstellung der Reader mit einbezieht.
Zum Artikel:
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-27 23:05:56
Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-religion-maryland-schools-c0b0fb4b96531636fcb98b08aabc3cf9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p147#a250627p147
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-26 19:25:49
More of this, please. https://me.dm/@funcrunch/114751288573182357
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-07-01 07:35:27
Tomorrow, we will dive deeper into ontologies with OWL, the Web Ontology Language. However, I'm doing OWL-lectures now for almost 20 years - and OWL as well as the lecture haven't changed much. So, I'm afraid I'm going to surprise/dissapoint the students tomorrow, when I will switch off the presentation and start improvising a random OWL ontology with them on the blackboard ;-)
#ise2025
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-02 05:00:04
edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 300 nodes and 414 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-08-31 01:18:32
With all the books unpacked, I finally got to read through Kirsty Mackay's "The Magic Money Tree" about the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and poverty in the UK, and loved the prints that came with it.
As always, she does a great job in combining documentary photography, scrapbooking and relevant texts (e.g. from parliamentary debates). Well worth your time if you can get your hands on it!
#documentaryphotography
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2025-06-30 09:10:26
Ich muss täglich mindestens ein Zitat prüfen. Manchmal sind es auch 25. Die Methoden hierfür sind vielfältig, aber oft lande ich doch bei books von google, um seriösen Quellen zu finden (und nicht "berühmte Zitate" ;-). Gibt es dazu Alternativen? Außer die etwa 40 Gigabyte eigene Textsammlung?
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-08-30 11:23:29
«We live in an era in which there is too much information but not enough knowledge, and even less wisdom. This excess of information makes us arrogant and then it makes us numb. We must change this ratio and focus more on knowledge and wisdom. For knowledge we need books, slow journalism, podcasts, in-depth analyses and cultural events. And for wisdom, among other things, we need the art of storytelling. We need the long form.»
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 18:00:49
"Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@salrandolph@zirk.us2025-07-19 14:12:14
“Every one of us has a secret book,” Hélène Cixous says. She’s talking about childhood books, and I have those too, but if you look in my backpack you’ll always find a secret book of the moment. One of my most magical secret books has been Dime-Store Alchemy by the poet Charles Simic.
https://salrandolph.sub…
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2025-09-01 01:27:43
A friend from way back just got in touch. We used to work on comic books together back in the day. It was nice hearing from him. That's his blog. Great to hear he's still writing. "Hyperboreans is published by Beul Aithris and is about an astral pub crawl through Cork city in the 90s. " I had to buy this one. Pure Cork like 😁 #writingcommunity
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-06-28 18:07:00
Geez, I realized I hadn’t posted several recent books. There were a couple Nigerian science fiction books:
“Rosewater” by Tade Thompson. A mysterious alien biodome heals people when it opens up once a year, but Kaaro, who has some special abilities, begins to uncover some secrets that point to a more sinister purpose.
Loved the first half, but thought it fell off in the second half.
3/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@vform@openbiblio.social2025-06-27 17:11:47
Analyse der Umweltbilanz: E-Books schlagen gedruckte Bücher deutlich
http://heise.de/-10461900
"Die Ökobilanz gedruckter Büchern ist massiv schlechter als die von E-Books, selbst wenn Lesegeräte einbezogen werden. Das hat die Stiftung Warentest ermittelt."
Da Bibliotheken sehr …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-25 21:15:57
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2025-08-01 15:31:16
A year or so after I finished this book, I realized that the Jones character in 'Liar, Cheater, Sinner, Saint' was Kevin from the Navy Trent Series. And, of course, Kevin wouldn't star in his own book. He prefers to work in the background. Art in this reel is by @empyranni_illustrates, cover art for the book is by @gargoyle.pastures. https://www.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-06-07 02:31:25
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-07-14 10:09:38
"How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-should-diamond-oa-work-for-books
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-01 09:00:13
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-06-24 15:36:30
Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/
@outer@mas.to2025-06-30 14:44:43
Great stuff! I can't recommend enough!
OK, I'll try, but it's like I'm trying to slam dunk a basketball, when I can't jump 6" off the ground...
You'll love his books. They're great. Life-lessons. Tragedy. Comedy. And they're a good deal. Did I mention cheap?
#ShortFiction #ProsePoetry
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-02 16:49:34
Pic 6: Getting to know the new vets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-getting-to-know-the-new-vets-saahdiq-charles
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-06-30 15:03:19
Looks like someone cut a Yugo in half.
Yugos were basically Fiats that Fiat no longer wanted to make. https://mstdn.social/@bweller/114770694902314410
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-07-28 12:15:59
Are you a #MetalHead? Here's two #OpenAccess #books for you:
1. Herbst, J.-P., & Mynett, M. (2025). Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume I: How and Why It Works. Taylor & Fra…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-01 02:00:13
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-26 18:40:49
Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held that position since 2020, says he will step down and lead a new S&S imprint that will publish six books a year (Elizabeth Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/books/review/jona…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-02 15:13:50
Pic 6: Getting to know the new vets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-getting-to-know-the-new-vets-saahdiq-charles
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-26 03:24:35
Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2137220/microsoft-sued-by-authors-over-use-of-books-in-ai-training?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-26 02:35:39
A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 04:15:02
Content warning: The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message:
“Do you have any idea how lucky you are to have thousands of people who can tell you you’re wrong?”
He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland.
Some are still struggling with his choice.
https://www.
@thek3nger@mastodon.social2025-07-01 13:02:58
In the last couple of months, I've been distracted. Disconnected from the others and me. June was way better. It may be a local maximum. Who knows? But we better enjoy the good times whenever we can.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-june-2025/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-25 18:06:02
Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War (Jake Spring/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/25/parks-gift-shops-banned-books/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUzNDE2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU0Nzk4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTM0MTYwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk3OWU4NmUxLWE5NjctNDE0Yy05ODAwLTZjZDZmZDk5M2MyZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMDcvMjUvcGFya3MtZ2lmdC1zaG9wcy1iYW5uZWQtYm9va3MvIn0.ybEI2M-WmbFlgf9DOVXv5TySPXLd3_rocOzl_2uDLc8&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p64#a250725p64
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-03 15:59:20
Pic 6: Getting to know the new vets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-getting-to-know-the-new-vets-javonte-williams
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-31 06:03:38
Last year Danes borrowed 23.6 million paper books from public libraries, plus music, film, games digital loans, with 32.5 million in person library visits. It's increasing annually too.
I'm not surprised, Danish libraries are wonderful, everyone should have this.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/bibliotekernes-udlaan-stiger-tredje-aar-i-traek-vi-elsker-laese-papirboeger
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-01 12:02:43
Computational Detection of Intertextual Parallels in Biblical Hebrew: A Benchmark Study Using Transformer-Based Language Models
David M. Smiley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24117
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 17:00:49
"Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-07-23 08:00:13
"Captain Underpants and the Conundrum of Creating a Custom Cookie Cutter: Creating a Unique, Edible Treat for Banned Books Week" https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26878
"The University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno, celebra…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-03 15:18:50
Pic 6: Getting to know the new vets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-getting-to-know-the-new-vets-javonte-williams
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-26 20:41:03
The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimoreb…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-17 08:15:41
Some conservative authors are turning to podcasts to promote their books; publishers say Joe Rogan can boost book sales by 3,000 to 4,000 copies immediately (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/books/conservative-books-podca…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-29 02:58:50
Lew Welch had been a fixture among the best minds of the Beat generation—a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder,
a kindred California spirit whose writing never achieved the same profile.
In 1971, Welch, who had been building a cabin on the San Juan Ridge, on land Ginsberg had left him,
walked away from the property with a .22-caliber revolver
and was never seen again.
“I had great visions but never could bring them together with reality,”…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-24 13:00:04
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-30 05:57:54
Worldline reports Q2 revenue down 4.4% YoY to €1.14B and a net loss of €4.2B for H1 2025, after booking a €4.1B impairment tied to merchant services business (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-23 20:00:03
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 21:26:55
The teachings of Falun Gong stem entirely from its enigmatic leader,
Li Hongzhi, whom followers view as a “God-like figure.”
Since settling in the United States in the late 1990s, Li has remained reclusive, but his beliefs shape the core tenets of Falun Gong and its many tendrils:
in addition to traditional Buddhist practices like qigong, a type of movement-based meditation,
Falun Gong also teaches that homosexuality creates “bad karma” and is “comparable to organize…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-07-17 06:50:54
Some US states pass or explore laws aimed at reining in the cost of e-books for libraries, which often pay 10x more for e-book licenses than print copies (Erik Ofgang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/books/l…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-24 14:23:54
A US judge rules Anthropic use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a "central library" used for training was not (Olivia Sophie Rafferty/ai fray)
https://aifra…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-28 19:10:31
Shteyngart’s novel, we come to realise, plays out a decade from now, in a “post-democracy” USA
where red state officials monitor menstrual cycles,
self-driving cars shop their owners to the feds
and the news platforms are abuzz with Russian disinformation.
Desperate to redeem herself at school, Vera prepares to debate in support of the proposed “Five-Three Amendment”,
a piece of racist legislation that would grant added voting weight to those “exceptional Amer…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-20 14:00:04
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-01 15:54:32
Pic 6: Getting to know the new vets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-getting-to-know-the-new-vets-payton-turner
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-26 03:30:53
A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-01 15:04:09
Pic 6: Getting to know the new vets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-getting-to-know-the-new-vets-payton-turner
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-17 05:00:03
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-29 11:00:03
edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 270 nodes and 323 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
