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We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book
"Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era".
Neiman argues that evil
— far from being an outdated religious concept
— is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil,
part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, f…

“Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era
We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era. Neiman argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world. The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil, part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, fools,” she says. “People worry that it…

Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb

Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint
Author Adam Johnson criticises Waverley council saying ‘reality is often upsetting’ while Palestinian group says libraries should hold ‘challenging’ books

If you saw an interesting new app, application, or web site, but then found out the author used AI to create it would you still use it?

Author Dare me to Know All 20 of These Weird Songs
Challenge accepted!
https://youtu.be/g6ErSpzH_p0

@… https://brownebag.substack.com/

The DBrief | David Browne | Substack
Journalist, music historian, author ("Talkin' Greenwich Village," bios of CSNY, the Dead, Jeff Buckley, Sonic Youth), Rolling Stone contributor. Click to read The DBrief, by David Browne, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues to explore and analyze the theme of #Security Baked Into the #JVM.
Today's focus in on the Safe Codebase #Audit

Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/117118189216062711
That’s disturbing…
I don’t care how good they are, you cannot trust code which isn’t used by its author.

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/tech/hachette-scott-turow-g…

Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage and author Scott Turow sued Google, alleging the company used copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models.

Depressing article about Starlink alternatives...
https://fronts.co/article/governments-

Is there an option hidden somewhere in git log / ref-log / mailmap which would support colorizing output lines differently depending on whether a author/committer matches some pattern (eg Mine vs Another Maintainer vs Unknown Contributor)?
I know I could post-process the output of git log or use other plumbing tools, but I'd rather not if something is built-in.
#git #askfedi #devlog

Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/tech/hachette-scott-turow-g…

Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage and author Scott Turow sued Google, alleging the company used copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models.

I very much disagree with the author of this piece- a big part of the dislike of chains in SF is their tendency to be only about profit and no longer about the art of the food. It is also telling that her ex-husband (disclosed in article) is the Tacolicious guy. The Standard leans very moderate-capitalist. https://

The C-word restaurant owners never want to be called
Why does San Francisco worship its scrappy little restaurants — until they grow?

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent.
But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pursuit-of-the-careless-people-author-is-relentless-and-self-…

Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually. – Mondoweiss
"... no one would today argue that Nazi Germany, or Apartheid South Africa, or Vichy France, or Khmer Rouge Kampuchea had a “right to exist.”
Author Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official.

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.
Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.

SQLite for Everything
https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/
We have so many remarkable tools that we avoid using because something else has a shiner marketing budget. (Though SQLite's type system is pretty mediocre.)

Swimming the Author
England tested witches with water. The suspect was bound, right thumb to left toe, looped to a rope, and lowered into the village pond....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/03/swimming-the-author/

Swimming the Author | David Boles, Blogs
England tested witches with water. The suspect was bound, right thumb to left toe, looped to a rope, and lowered into the village pond. Pure water was believed to refuse the devil’s servant, …

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-googles-ai-5c0baba2?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert

The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")
There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.
EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.
#NoAI #NoLLM

The author is one of those radical left people you hear about:
People that think radical ideas like
public universal healthcare,
public education,
public water, sewers and hydro
are good policy.
A 33-year retired hydro worker who was a union activist and who led the successful campaign to stop the sale of Hydro One,
wrote the union bulletin
and in retirement became a freelance writer for Free.

Starting another Bulgarian into English translation, this time of the science fiction novel "14 Minutes to Sunrise" by physicist and SF author Bozhan Bozhkov.
* The previous one was the urban fantasy "Mamnik" by Vasil Popov. It was commissioned by Storytel Bulgaria. I finished it in July.

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

A-fukkin-men
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tne4x6uotoief6t5cildh75l/post/3msxv3562nk2i

A splendid peer review:
"This is a remarkable result – in fact, I don’t believe it. However, I have examined the paper and can find no fault in the author's methods and results. Thus I believe it should be published so that others may assess it and the conclusions and/or repeat the experiment to see whether the same results are achieved."
Alan Singleton, in Learned Publishing, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 162-163

A new author lost his debut contract over allegations of #AI usage. How can you protect yourself? Here's one strategy. #amwriting
https:…

How to Prove You Wrote It: An Audit Trail for Writers Accused of Using AI
Accused of using AI? A detector score proves nothing. Here is the audit trail that shows how your writing was made, why it protects honest AI users too, and how to start one today.

Tech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI’s astounding rise for years
and is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She says that while many in Silicon Valley warn of AI’s sci-fi-like threats, the real risks are already here.
“We are allowing the tech industry to consolidate this extraordinary degree of resources unlike anything ever before,” she tells More To The Story host Al Letson.
“We thought that they were already powe…

The race to stop AI’s threats to democracy
Tech journalist Karen Hao sounds the alarm about the rising risks to the country—and planet—from the growth of artificial intelligence.

It's perfectly fine to play Gary Glitter over the PA at a kids football game because Death of The Author or something.

Just finished "Seven Little Sons of the Dragon" by Ryoko Kui. As expected from the author of "Delicious in Dungeon", an excellent collection of short stories that are whimsical, profound, hilarious, and beautiful. Kui's characters even in the short form always have a little extra twist beyond what you'd expect. I think my favorite of these was the story about mermaids, both for its ambiguous depth and for the hilarious "Lone Wolf and Cub" shout-out.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Any "open source" project with a section proudly titled "Backed by the oligarchy" on its homepage[1] should be more than just a red flag to anyone (even if you don't know or care about the other horrendous political takes of its main author).
This project with all its fascist dog whistling (including the "You're someone now") in various marketing materials is nothing but an outright subversion & enclosure of FLOSS culture & efforts. What we're witnessing is the initial creation…

'The lead author, James Cook University associate professor Alan Williams, said the “devastating findings” highlight the impacts of invasion. But they also demonstrate the “remarkable survival, resilience and recovery over the past century of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people”.'
Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian

Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation
Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought

This is one of three #books I acquired yesterday. The other two are still in the car, I'm in my nightie and it's raining, so they're staying put for now 😄
The Constant Gardener by le Carré, The Golden Hours by Louisa Young and Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
I'm particularly looking fwd to TGH, the next in The Cazalet Chronicles, written by EJH's niece. It…

Please don't assume anything about the author of the piece you've been asked to peer review. Although you might get it right, you might also get it horribly wrong. In that case, your comments may be inadvertantly incredibly insulting.
Focus on the paper: what works? what doesn't? how can it be improved? Oh, and don't try to force the author to write the article you'd have written. Instead, help them write the best paper they want to write.

#WritersCoffeeClub 12 Sep: Who do you share snippets of your WIP with?
Husband, first. Then author friends that I hang with. Newsletter readers of course. Sometimes my blog.
It varies on my mood.

Weekend Reads
* Inside an Internet shutdown
https://labs.ripe.net/author/mdkamruzzaman-khan-2/inside-a-shutdown-bgp-evidence-from-an-operator-who-was-there/
* Inferring shared IP addresses

Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There
When Bangladesh vanished from the global routing table in July 2024, public routing data captured the event as it unfolded. Drawing on first-hand observations from inside one affected network, this article explores what that data can and cannot tell us.

Someone lied 30 years ago. Beosbible.com is for sale, so no updates for me.
Fortunately the author @… , is now hosting these at https://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/

Two important #actions today: 1) Submit your #OMB comments; 2) register for the #DefendResearch webinar to learn how to fight

Finished reading “Tokyo These Days, Volume 1” by Taiyo Matsumoto.
A veteran manga editor quits after 30 years, then quietly visits artists, famous and forgotten, assembling an artistic endeavor not fully revealed.
Rich characters won me over: reserved Shiozawa most of all, though flawed Chosaku is who I want to learn more about. Very much part one, setting the table. Might be my first manga?
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 1
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

New documentary study: Ioan Petru Culianu as a 1951 Convention refugee — the AAI/CIME Latina file (1972-1973)
https://ift.tt/LV40ltU
CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@… Omarchy also has a strong AI angle. Peiter Steinberger, the author of OpenClaw, is one of the founders (I guess OpenAI must have made him an offer he couldn't refuse if he can afford to contribute $1M or more). I suspect they are aiming to be "the Linux for AI".

#naomialderman is so great.
#ai

Sharing this which was linked from another thread.
A very powerful critique of the master's 'AI' tools as aids (or substitutes) for the human creative process.
It's long but you get the message in the first 2 sections.
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
https://

While calls to “abolish ICE”
have exploded during the second Trump presidency,
critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigrants,
US citizens, and democracy itself
since it was created just over 20 years ago.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars,
host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia about the origins of ICE
and what it will take to abolish it and the new …

ICE: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.

In my mind, an author whose books are only available through Amazon is not an 'indie' author. If Amazon controls your only source of distribution, you work for them.

Slides of my introductions to DECT NR technology and implementations are up, from the @… summit and @… community day, respectively.

@… https://48hills.org/author/johnpaulshiiver/feed

In case you want to help seeding a torrent file for two reports that Amnesty UK published and then unpublished after an author of wizard books intervened, there’s a link for that.
https://sciop.net/uploads/972d177dffb2d1385b76baf8709470e7375d3399fe65…

Guest author Stefano Fago is on a roll. Today, he wrote about Making ServiceLoader usable with a provider factory.
#java

An HST Wide-field Survey of the #GalacticBulge - Overview, Strategy, and First Results: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae53e8 -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdk4NElo_c

#AI #comic #HertaBurbė

When everything that you want to say is censored, the mere existence of you is the statement. This is When Form Becomes Attitude and When Position Becomes Design. // When Position Becomes Design https://blog.dingster.info/author/leftsidestory/when-position-becomes-des…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

RE: https://fediscience.org/@mfamelis/116891537669438337
Hey, I know that author!
Writing this was equal parts distressing (so many practitioners are feeling utterly betrayed and bereft given the state of the software industry) and fun (pissed-off p…

RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/116975569764655540
Oh yay, an outlet that people trust is promoting this article through its accessibility messaging.
And I see the author has updated the original to… justify the article text (versus ragged right).
M…

"Yet the system is falling apart as it is. Yes, the AfD (and the far right in general) is a fundamental threat to liberal democracy, but so is the fact that a sizeable and growing part of the population no longer feels represented by its politicians. While many still come out to vote for democracy, they increasingly vote against a party rather than for one.
"

The AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right
This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today

Poliser har pepparsprejat mig, fått mitt kulturhus vräkt genom en illegal razzia, ljugit i förundersökningsprotokoll, ridit igenom min demonstration med polishästar, släpat bort mig när jag fredligt protesterat mot nazistmarcher. Vad har "islam" gjort mig?
https://bsky.app/profile/di…

Another reason not to publish in #Frontiers... they use genAI to create alt-text for their figures 🤦
Seriously, remind me why we are paying journals when they can't even write their own Alt-text?
#AcademicChatter

this is soooo on point:

Jerry Falade, a grad student whose debut novel initially landed a $2M book deal, denies using AI to write it and says such claims are racially motivated (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/author-…

#TIL: There are conspiracy theorists who think Locks of Love is a scam and they have access to video cameras. @…

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

Interesting discussion over at /r/books. I haven't followed that many book series after an author's death or retirement. The first ones that spring to mind for me are Clancy, Parker, and Cussler.
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1v

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Beth Macy built her career writing about the plagues inflicted on rural America,
most famously the opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,”
but also the job losses from trade agreements that devastated communities across Appalachia.
Now running as a Democrat in the kind of House district she says she is uniquely qualified to reach,
she recited the 4-H pledge from memory
— “I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger se…

Can Democrats Win Rural Voters Turning Away From Trump? It’s a Tough Sell.
House candidates like Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick,” have crafted messages based on lifetimes in rural regions. But messages need an audience, and many minds are closed to the party.

👀
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aiwdikara4nttlpz3k43gsuq/post/3mpvyjmnxds2u

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues his brilliant series of #Security baked into the #JVM, with his third post: two Subjects, one call
This part covers the two kinds of identity a call carries, how SPIFFE manages process credentials without keystores, and how three identity layers coexist on a singl…

@… in their press release they emphasize agentic AI. So basically they want to be in on the ground floor of "The Linux for AI". FOMO meets fascism. The participation of the author of OpenClaw is noteworthy in this respect.

The paper I'm editing right now is fantastic. When submitted it was OK but flawed in several important ways. The author put in the work through rounds of review and produced a model of historical scholarship. I can't wait for people to read it.

Finished reading "Tokyo These Days Vol. 3" by Taiyo Matsumoto.
This closes out the series with the editor's passion project finally coming together and finding real, if modest, commercial success.
More hopeful than the earlier volumes. Perseverance pays off instead of ending on quiet resignation. A win for art over profitability, even if a small one.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 3
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Interesting rumination on ageing and daring from author M.John Harrison's blog:

When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish citizens,
they weren’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air.
They closely studied the laws of another country.
According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States
In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation inspired by American laws:
the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection o…

For a full minute, I fully thought this was about a shadowcast of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and honestly, I think that tracks as well
😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t73277f6whlyimt2czeu5ng5/post/3msaz3qpiic2n

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

#Ponytail Agent #Skill Corrects Its Own Benchmark After Contributor Challenge
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/po…

This was part of my frustration with working in policy enforcement, a.k.a. Abuse Desk. No one bothers to report abuse. That’s a 2-nines “no one.”
The worst embedded autoplaying horse porn email spammers generate at most single-digit-percentage abuse reports. I’m sure social media is much worse, because people have acclimatized themselves to social media being full of garbage that no one will stop.
#Sysadminnery

Sources: Amazon staff find cases of "catastrophically expensive" AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/77baac40-d803-4084-94f3-a133653072cf…

After months of resistance, the Democratic National Committee finally relented this May and published a draft of its "autopsy" of what had gone wrong in the 2024 election,
saying it was releasing the unfinished document “in its entirety” in the interest of transparency.
But, according to Paul Rivera, the man who wrote the autopsy, the draft omitted a chapter titled
“What Happened in 2024,”
which he said he had printed out and placed in a three-ring binder th…

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

I absolutely had not connected this quote from Pluribus to “AI”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mvmfhonrfi2pwippivfcrvdw/post/3msaq3wdau62g

“We believe physics is the third modality for AI models,
after text and pixels,”
says MIT PhD student and CSAIL researcher Minghao Guo,
a co-lead author on a paper introducing GeoPT.
“Our general-purpose model has the versatility to help build a world model for physics.
Many models, such as those that generate robotics data and videos, are already well-versed in textual and visual data,
but with physical accuracy, they’ll get more-realistic results.”

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
“GeoPT” teaches AI models the basics of physics by virtually reenacting everyday mechanical interactions in 3D. In turn, the systems can simulate how vehicles and other objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Long before Texas became a rightwing political stronghold,
it was defined by cowboys on strike,
farmers organizing against the railroads,
and one of the largest Socialist party chapters in the country.
“In Texas, the history of our radical politics and labor and working class tradition has been purposefully hidden,”
author David Griscom said.
“It’s important to go back and correct the record
and see that there was an effort to try to make Texans forg…

Texas was once a hotbed of wild west socialism – could it make a comeback?
Long before it became a rightwing political bastion the state was defined by cowboys on strike and farmers organizing

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 133280 nodes and 396160 edges.

Last year, we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author
Cory Doctorow about his book,
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.
The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts,
focusing on AI and related issues:
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but he’s constantly being asked to comme…

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

No one is talking about the Epstein files now!
This also fits into the "flood the zone" strategy.
https://bsky.app/profile/voteblue4vr.bsky.social/post/3mubpmkeq6k2l