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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

Why do we love football? Chuck Klosterman's new book explores America's obsession https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994340/2026/01/24/chuck-klosterman-book-football-american-obsession/

I'm A Serious Book Person
Is your TBR pile becoming a serious health and safety hazard? Did you stay up too late last night just so you could finish the good bit...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/im-a-serious-book-perso…

#CommonplaceNotes https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/commonplace-book-supply-chains-hope-cool.html supply chains, hope, cool. thanks

Commonplace book: supply chains, hope, cool
Yes this: https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/115696408257250551 Helen Toner on generative AI and where it might go , which is a rare article...

Shame on David Archuletta's team. I visit Under the Umbrella bookstore at least monthly *because* of its masking policy. Both my parents are elderly and medically vulnerable to bad outcomes from respiratory illness, so I'm still masking in public for them.
https://www.sltrib.com/ar…

The Failed City: I Wrote a Book About What We Bury
I have been staring at a patch of asphalt in Jersey City for thirteen years. That is not a figure of speech. I mean that in late September 2013, I watched a road crew roll fresh blacktop over 150-year-old granite cobblestones on Baldwin Avenue in the Heights, and the image has not released me since. The cobblestones were ballast stones, carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the holds of empty cargo ships and dumped on…

The Failed City: I Wrote a Book About What We Bury | David Boles, Blogs
I have been staring at a patch of asphalt in Jersey City for thirteen years. That is not a figure of speech. I mean that in late September 2013, I watched a road crew roll fresh blacktop over 150-y…

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

This is what Weizenbaum wrote about the dawn of the computer age: it was used as an excuse to not even try to make society better. The same thing is happening with “AI” now.
We know what would make society better.
One example is UBI (which Weizenbaum mentions in the same book in passing as “negative income tax”).
But of course we don’t have universal healthcare or UBI nor really any other advances (perhaps the ADA was a rare win); instead trillions of dollars are invested into software that tells us to bomb schools; for the sole reason to say it was the computers’ fault, not ours.
This book* was written 50 years ago.
*Computer Power and Human Reason
#AI #society

In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope.
Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometers, and steam pumps were decades away.
Francis Bacon,
a member of parliament still in his twenties,
was only beginning his writing on science.
Robert Boyle wouldn’t be born for another 39 years,
Isaac Newton for another 55.
But a subtle shift in perspective was already taking place,
heralding the
‘culture of growth’
that would blossom i…

The Renaissance book that heralded growth - Works in Progress Magazine
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.

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

Last night, I was reading a book that contained this passage about Mussolini, and it took me an hour to fully grasp what this meant:
"[his 2-year stay in Switzerland] had initiated Mussolini to a form of revolutionary socialism based not on materialism or orthodox Marxism, but on a cocktail of voluntarists and anti-rational principles derived from Pareto, Le Bon, Nietzsche, and Sorel"

I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce Gregor Hohpe. I’m a big fan, having read Enterprise Integration Patterns, and I’ve recommended the book ever since.
His latest #book is: "The Software Architect Elevator". Here's my #review

The Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship: the moment the final sentence locks into place, the book begins its first death, because it has stopped being a living negotiation between you and the language and has become, instead, a fixed…

The Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right | David Boles, Blogs
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship:…

So, it's really going to happen. My next book to be published by Wiley is slated for release in April.
I have analyzed some high-profile cyber incidents and mapped them to the outcomes in the NIST 2.0 Framework.
The goal is to give real-world relevance to what can sometimes be dry but absolutely necessary cybersecurity fundamentals that all defenders should take to heart.
Even more exciting is that Wiley will be offering corporate and government purchasers some intere…

that bittersweet feeling of opening a used book & finding a sweet bookmark from a long-departed bookstore in a faraway place (closed in 1999, according to reddit) #books

What's the last book you read where, if asked whether you thought reading it had been a good way to spend your time, you would not just say "Sure, I think so," but "Hell yeah!"?

"'Complicit' is a meticulously compiled dossier of the UK’s complicity — chronicling support the UK has provided politically, militarily, and diplomatically to Israel."
By Peter Oborne one of the vanishingly small band of (small c) conservatives with moral conscience and spirit.
'Complicit' details UK's enabling role in the Gaza genocide

New book 'Complicit' details UK's enabling role in the Gaza genocide
Complicit is a meticulously compiled dossier of the UK’s support — politically, militarily, and diplomatically — to Israel

This book focuses on small-and medium-sized regional airport terminals, and is divided into seven chapters:

Hachette cancels the US release of the novel Shy Girl and is discontinuing its UK edition after fans claimed the author relied heavily on AI to write the book (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/books/shy-girl-book-ai.html

Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”

And Seattle has continued destroying the park along Elliott Bay.
Repaving the path and removing the potholes and bumps from tree roots? Definitely needed.
But not only is the whole area full of lamp posts ruining what had once been a pleasant place to enjoy an evening away from city glare, the paths are lined with fencing and sprinklers blocking access to any trees that could be useful as a spot for someone to shelter from the weather or even sit under one to read a book.
I…

I have, to date, only read one Discworld book.
I believe my antidote to 2026 might be reading the rest of them…

Finished reading "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney.
Two brothers wallow in their grief after their father's death. Peter, the lawyer, and Ivan, the chess player, struggle to connect across their ten-year age gap. Beautiful prose, but the endless navel-gazing introspection drags!
Ivan's growth is compelling, but the women—Margaret, Sylvia, Naomi—remain underdeveloped. Add to it a too-neat ending that undercuts the existential hand-wringing?
3/5 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Intermezzo
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and fami…

Little Paid Library (book vending machine)

übersehe ich was, oder vergibt liverpool university press für seine #openaccess-bücher wirklich keine #DOIs? 🧐🤨
https://

i just finished a rather dull book that santa left under the tree
i am now able to name from memory the six lake superior iron ranges
here's a harsh review from the journal of economic history

Congratulations to Paul Stroble ‘82 M.Div. on publication of his fourth full-length poetry collection, "Holy Week, 1847"! https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/holy-week-1847-by-paul-stroble/

Free Words was an art project I started in 2001. It was a hot pink artists book I described as “a book that belonged to anyone who found it.” I placed it onto the shelves of bookstores and libraries to be discovered, and people who found it had to make an uncomfortable decision about whether they were truly free to carry it away.
Here’s the story.

More of The Free Words Story
The story of Sal Randolph's Free Words, a social art project where free books were infiltrated into bookstores and libraries.

Sound up! I'm trying to teach Izzy, our fearful rescue spaniel, to ring bells when she wants to go out in the back yard, rather than scratch at the door. One training book recommended putting peanut butter on the bell, so I did that this morning. It doesn't seem to be having the desired effect, since Izzy is now barking at the bells. (She did touch them, at least.) #DogsofMastodon

Did I have a great time today, with cranberry cake, and hot chocolate, and opening every book I've ever wanted to read in all the boostores in the city centre alongside @…? Yes 🥰

What do people here make of that Simon Reynolds book, ‘Energy Flash’? I enjoyed sections of it, didn’t agree with the opinions of others, found the writing nice - but don’t know how accurate it is as a “history of rave and dance culture” since I wasn’t there.

Looking forward to this book

If you ever feel like you aren’t achieving as much as you want to, just remember there are people out there who are content with having read just one book in their lives, convinced it means they know everything there is to know about the world.
That said, try not to dwell on the fact that they’re the ones running the world right now or you might feel bad again.
(Sorry, I clearly shouldn’t be writing inspirational posts.)

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138673/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
Gemini’s task automation feature on the Samsung S26 and Pixel 10 series is an impressive glimpse at what the future of AI assistants could look like.

MAGA Christian Nationalist Pastor Promotes Coming Book On "19 Reasons" To End Women's Right To Vote - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/maga-christian-nationalist-pastor-promotes-coming-book-on-19-reasons-to-end-womens-right-to-vote/

Via @delilahsdawson.bsky.social
“Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.”
…

snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!

In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s potential retirement have grown into a roar.
At 75 years old and marking 20 years on the bench, Alito’s upcoming book release on October 6, 2026,
just one day after the start of the Court’s new term,
has fueled intense speculation that he may step down to ensure his conservative legacy endures under Trump’s second term.
With Republicans holding the Senate majority ahead of the 202…

Supreme Court Shake-Up? Alito Exit Could Hand Trump Critical 2A Appointment
In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's potential retirement have grown into a roar.

Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts has a refresh, new content and platfom.

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and you can try it and download it for free!

Braving -30°C feels like an Arctic expedition! In these extreme conditions, finding solace in a captivating book or inspiring movie soundtrack becomes essential for maintaining comfort and wellbeing. Remember to dress warmly and keep that positive outlook! 😊 #WinterVibes #StayWarm

I was today years old when I realized the cover of the High Fidelity #book is not a guy wearing sunglasses, but rather a guy holding spoons over his eyes.
😎

Enjoyed parts of this conversation about "justice on a burning planet," especially Thea Riofrancos' comments. She's consistently insightful here; I have her book Extraction in my to-read stack and now I'm extra looking forward to it. I recommend skipping over the excessively long intro to 32:55 where the guests begin.
http…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Ebbb:
🎵 Book That You Like
#Ebbb
https://ebbb.bandcamp.com/album/book-that-you-like
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zBcD224iIgGm3fap7jzyE

heise | Xteink X4 im Test: Kompakter E-Book-Reader, großer Lesespaß
Mit 4,3 Zoll passt das E-Book-Lesegerät von Xteink in fast jede Hosentasche. Mit der richtigen Firmware lässt sich das Potenzial des schwachen ESP32 ausreizen.

Finished “People Like Us” by Jason Mott.
I will admit that there were moments early where I struggled, trying to puzzle out the dual narratives. You have to accept it as experimental writing with a plurality in scope. When I surrendered and just READ, I absolutely loved it!
What is it about? So much. Gun violence. Where home is. America. Race. Writers. Trauma & coping. Time travel. Peacocks.
So much to say, but for spoilers 🤐
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

People Like Us
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 Nation…

AI Policy Challenges in Europe Book (free!) by a true insider expert Caroline De Cock
https://carolinedecock.com/
(I wrote the foreword).

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138673/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

I hate the ugliness of American English.
Why do they use the term 'douchebag'? Is that what I call a toilet bag, and if so, what is the sense of it as an insult?
However I also assumed the horrible 'dude' (Yankee for 'bloke') was a newish invention, but came across it recently in a C19th novel, Dickens 'Our Mutual Friend' (wonderful book) if I remember rightly.

@… I don't know that I'd find time.
Too busy with a pair of diabetes and a book on cake watching.

This lovely late late Christmas present arrived today. My wife discovered it when clearing some stuff out. It's very touching.

Book Chapter in Civility Unbound
The idea of civility is predicated on a well-structured society that has norms that should benefit everyone. This essay questions whether such a society exists in the United States and whether what we call “civility” is simply a euphemism for “control.”
https://

Hussein RashidBook Chapter in Civility Unbound
The idea of civility is predicated on a well-structured society that has norms that should benefit everyone. This essay questions whether such a society exists in the United States and whether what…

@… ich kenne nur White Sands, Der Dunkle (https://buecher.pnpde.social/book/105525/s/der-dunkle) und das Hörbuch zu Weit über der smaragdgrüne…

Got the book by @… , but I have some competition for getting to it

Just came back from watching Project Hail Mary. Was a great adaptation of the book. Good way to end the weekend.

Just finished reading “Automatic Noodle”, a fun novella from @… It was a thoroughly enjoyable read that left me wanting more stories of this group of robots. It was also an ultimately hopeful and kind book… which was a good mental break from all that is happening in our world right now. Well done!

Tonight's thrift find and now essential reading
#VanHalen #80s #books

Sonnet 059 - LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your …

Which way, western man?
That was the title of a racist tract published in 1978 by William Gayley Simpson
a former leftist Christian pastor turned one of the most influential neo-Nazi ideologues in American history.
The book helped radicalize an entire generation of white supremacists in the US,
with its vicious antisemitism, opposition to all forms of immigration and open praise for Hitler.
The purpose of the book, wrote Simpson, was
“to reveal organized…

Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a "rolling infomercial" (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-forces-internal-chan…

CNN Rewrites Its Rules After Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Fiasco
The anchor is said to be “very, very unhappy” at the network’s new policy on self-promotion.

#BloodInTheMachine is also an excellent book, btw. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138673/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Beth Ditto:
🎵 I Wrote The Book
#NowPlaying #BethDitto
https://betterthanyours.bandcamp.com/track/i-wrote-the-book-jerome-baker-iii-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5yHmkXEK225be9S7A5VpaF

I'm a staunch Atheist. Capital A. Even every time I was about to die.
Except that ONE time after I'd just read the book, "The Exorcist". I was shampooing my head and face, and there was a LOUD sound in the shower.
I was brought up Catholic, so I'm still guilty about the shower incident...
#Religion scars you for life.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://evankenney.bandcamp.com/track/the-book-of-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr

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

Thinking of publishing a paper book with logical conundrums to recite to make the robot’s heads explode when the AI apocalypse comes; hoping that William Shatner writes the foreword.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Ebbb:
🎵 Book That You Like
#Ebbb
https://ebbb.bandcamp.com/album/book-that-you-like
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zBcD224iIgGm3fap7jzyE

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

The God in the Wire: The Book That Began with an Empty Shelf
I did not set out to write a book about technology. I set out to understand an empty shelf. The shelf is at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, mounted on a corridor wall beneath a sign bearing the universal symbol for Deaf access. The shelf once held a TTY, one of those text telephones that gave Deaf people their first access to instantaneous distance communication.

The God in the Wire: The Book That Began with an Empty Shelf | David Boles, Blogs
I did not set out to write a book about technology. I set out to understand an empty shelf. The shelf is at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, mounted on a corridor wall benea…

the adventures of electric man (aka acid man), by al jarnow, 1966, whose origin story involved getting zapped during the nyc blackout of '65. dad sez there's a version with finished dialogue somewhere, but i haven't found it yet. a future episode maybe included a wizard named "ergot."

Kickstarter: Muslim Futures – I’m in it
I'm really pleased to be publishing my first short story, and it's with an amazing group of authors, who have much longer pedigrees in fiction writing than I do. And some of the stories (alas, not mine) will also be published a comic book.
It's on Kickstarter here.
It runs the whole mont of Ramadan, and the description

https://tabelog.com/en/ wird für die Restaurantsuche in Japan empfohlen. Man solle sich nicht von Bewertungen in den 3-er-Bereichen irritieren lassen, heisst es, da die Bewertenden in Japan höchst kritisch wären.

Cakeberra!
All pictures in the book are from the charity’s 2017 Cake Off competition, in which the theme was ‘Canberra’. They were professionally captured, but unutilised until now.
Learning your ABCs? It's a piece of cake with this charity's Canberra-themed book | Region Canberra

Learning your ABCs? It's a piece of cake with this charity's Canberra-themed book | Region Canberra
Imagine you're on a bus, driving around discovering Canberra icons made of cake - and learning your ABCs along the…

Legal activist Emily Galvan Almanza chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.
It’s not news that judicial outcomes are often tied to the wealth and influence of a defendant:
Not only do the well-to-do have the resources to hire good lawyers,
but juries themselves tend to be made up of older, wealthier, white people.
A predictable result, writes Galvin Almanza, is that defendants of color, represented by appointed public defenders, pull lo…

THE PRICE OF MERCY | Kirkus Reviews
A legal activist chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
https://ift.tt/7hGCTJK
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://…

Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

Print Book Sales Rose Slightly in 2025
A mild rebound in children’s book sales helped to offset softness on the adult side, resulting in a 0.3% increase in unit sales of print books in 2025 over 2024. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins was last year’s top-selling title.

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
https://ift.tt/HEaeMbq
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://…

Big “if” here… guess when this book is from

Kickstarter: Muslim Futures – I’m in it
I'm really pleased to be publishing my first short story, and it's with an amazing group of authors, who have much longer pedigrees in fiction writing than I do. And some of the stories (alas, not mine) will also be published a comic book. It's on Kickstarter here. It runs the whole mont of Ramadan, and the description is:

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

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather,
packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school,
and then our govt stole him out of their driveway.
Used her little boy as bait.
These people are monsters.
-- @thetirednurse.bsky.social

Beautiful Numbness: The Book I Have Been Writing for Fifty Years
Every book has a birthday, but not every book has a conception date. Some books arrive late and fast, fully formed, demanding to be transcribed before they vanish. The Last Living American White Male was like that. Others accumulate across decades, assembling themselves in the background of a life, borrowing material from every stage and every failure and every standing ovation until the writer finally…

Beautiful Numbness: The Book I Have Been Writing for Fifty Years | David Boles, Blogs
Every book has a birthday, but not every book has a conception date. Some books arrive late and fast, fully formed, demanding to be transcribed before they vanish. The Last Living American White Ma…

Apple plans to release the delayed show The Hunt on March 4, after producer Gaumont resolved plagiarism claims by getting authorizations from rightsholders (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/the-hunt-premiere-date-apple-t…

Apple TV Sets New Premiere Date For Thriller ‘The Hunt’; Book ‘Shoot’ Named Source Material After Plagiarism Probe By Gaumont
Apple TV sets new premiere date for thriller 'The Hunt' with book 'Shoot' listed as source material after Gaumont investigation of plagiarism claims.

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

The Conceit of the Clock: Aristotle, Time, and the Hunger That Devours Us
Aristotle opens his investigation of time in Book IV of the Physics with a question so destabilizing it threatens to collapse the inquiry before it begins: does time even exist? His reasoning is not coy. The past has ceased to be. The future has not yet arrived. The present, the "now," is not a duration but a limit, a dimensionless boundary between what was and what will be.

The Conceit of the Clock: Aristotle, Time, and the Hunger That Devours Us | David Boles, Blogs
Aristotle opens his investigation of time in Book IV of the Physics with a question so destabilizing it threatens to collapse the inquiry before it begins: does time even exist? His reasoning is no…

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

"Killers of Roe" is a new book by the reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield
on what she describes as the death of abortion rights in the United States.
The book is framed as a murder mystery, examining a
“twisted alliance of believers and opportunists” in the years and decades before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
“It started out as a murder mystery because it was a way to entice myself to tell a really difficult story about wom…

“Killers of Roe”: Amy Littlefield Investigates the “Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights” in U.S.
Killers of Roe is a new book by the reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield on what she describes as the death of abortion rights in the United States. The book is framed as a murder mystery, examining a “twisted alliance of believers and opportunists” in the years and decades before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. “It started out as a murder mystery because it was a way to entice myself to tell a really difficult story about women dying preventable deaths as a re…

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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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

Call for Book Proposals: Secrecy in Literature and Culture (EUP)
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Call for Book Proposals: Secrecy in Literature and Culture (EUP)
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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 609 nodes and 788 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

Call for Book Review Essays - C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
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Call for Book Review Essays - C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
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game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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