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#CommonplaceBook far too much AI stuff but also maybe a bit of hope. https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/07/commonplace-book-far-too-much-ai-but.html HT

Finished reading "Carl's Doomsday Scenario" by Matt Dinniman.
Book two of Dungeon Crawler Carl picks up right where the first left off: Carl, Donut, and Mordecai grinding through the Over City, with a murder mystery woven into the escalating levels.
Still funny and chaotic, but Carl, Donut, and Mordecai feel more like a cohesive team, rather than individuals grouped together.
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may …

A Star Trek audio book (on “four cassettes”) read by Robert Picardo? Yes, please!
(Support your local library!)

There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled
The Floer Jungle,
co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts
(author of some great biographies of mathematicians)
and mathematician Helmut Hofer.
The story of Floer’s career and his work is a fascinating one.
The book is written at a mixture of levels,
starting out with some chapters explaining background at an easily accessible level,
but then moving on to the det…

The Book I Could Not Afford to Get Wrong
Every book I take on carries some risk, and on most of them the risk is mine alone....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/02/the-book-i-could-not-afford-to-get-wrong/

The Book I Could Not Afford to Get Wrong | David Boles, Blogs
Every book I take on carries some risk, and on most of them the risk is mine alone. If I misjudge a scene or overwrite a chapter, the cost is my own time and my own name, and I can live with that. …

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-…

All I wanted is a quick note when a new book from one of the authors or book series I like is published. And the same for new works from movie directors or TV series I enjoy.
An email newsletter or an RSS feed could easily handle that with no or little overhead.
But those often did not exist or were way too noisy because somebody wanted to sell something else.
And that's why soon everybody will use AI agents with all their overhead for that.

“The people who go on marches subscribe to the same podcast, might follow the same pages on Instagram, might be on the same Telegram channels, but they don’t have an organisational history they shared before they entered the march.“
Liebe Alt-, Neu- und Post-Autonome, das ist für Euch:
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left

i ran across this in a book of essays by john green. i think gertrude stein was on to something here.

I miss Nicole Hollander, the cartoonist, and her cartoons. She died April 23, 2026. Her comic strip “Sylvia” was funny. Luckily she made a million of them, so they're still pretty easy to find on the web.
This one’s from her book, “The Whole Enchilada”, (1982)

#CommonplaceBook reading, abundance, maybe some hopeful green shoots. Read to the end for a picture of me weeding out the less good green shoots.
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/08/com

Commonplace book: reading, abundance, green shoots
Mandy Brown argues that the attention economy is misnamed (HT Sentiers). Reading is the art of attention. What a mess we’ve made of that...

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 394 nodes and 499 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M daily lifestyle services engagements (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3355850/

Order coffee, book a flight, buy a burger: Alibaba broadens Qwen’s reach
As Tencent prepares a rival WeChat agent, Alibaba is moving quickly to turn Qwen from a chatbot into a digital concierge for everyday life.

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I just remembered a certain character from a book series that I read ages ago. I finally found the series and noticed that I could start reading those series again as I don't remember what it was about.
But that means I can't read "new" books... But does it matter? Isn't reading about enjoying the process of the read itself? Diving into another world and living through the live of the hero(es)... 🤔

This looks excellent: by Julien-François Gerber.
Degrowth: Revitalizing critical development studies
https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3136/degrowth
Available as a free pdf download but if you can do consider buying it from Practical Action, the publis…

New Book On The Role The US Media Played In Israel's Genocide https://thedissenter.org/complicit-lens-the-role-us-media-played-in-israel-genocide/

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190785/deaths-of-despair-and-the-future-of-capitalism

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class

RE: https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/116690823054792097
Remembering how controversial so-called "open book" exams were, way back when.

This follows Rockhill's "Who paid the Piper of Western Marxism?" (which I've read) and with it will be a vital resource for regrounding socialist and anti-imperialist praxis in dialectical and historical materialism.
New! "Requiem for French Theory" - Monthly Review
https://

New! "Requiem for French Theory" - Monthly Review
In advance of the book's release in summer of 2026, John Bellamy Foster's introduction to "Requiem for French Theory" has already been translated into Spanish by the publication "La Haine".

Wenn BMW in das von die gekaufte Auto Werbung einspielt, dann gehört das Auto nicht wirklich. genauso wenig, wie das Betriebssystem, das dir im Startmenü Werbung anzeigt, das E-Book, das plötzlich aus deinem Reader verschwindet, die Software, die gar nicht mehr auf dem eigenen Rechner läuft und dafür all deine Daten analysiert, genau wie den Staubsauger-Roboter und dein Smarthome, die auch nicht mehr funktionieren, wenn der Hersteller den Server abschaltet, … (ergänze selbständig).
Wir…

@… great book!

I wonder if there is a space to write about books you love that isn’t quite reviewing but something more like telling a tale or entering into the poem of a novel.
I tried it out with Hiroko Oyamada’s The Hole.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/the-hole

The Hole
A book story following Hiroko Oyamada's novel, The Hole.

Ahh. I still have a boxed copy of "Encarta" in my attic, along with shrinkwrapped "Bob", "Microsoft Dogs", "Neverhood", "Deadly Tides" & 100 more.
Trips to Fry's Electronics & Barnes & Noble's technology book section were exciting, positive opportunities for discovery & learning.
Sadly, today, it feels like a perpetual, negative grind.
From: @…

Kroc Camen (@Kroc@oldbytes.space)
Attached: 1 image Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!". It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds? #encarta #90s #retrocomputing

Finished reading "The Half Life of Valery K" by Natasha Pulley.
I've been trying to read more LGBTQ books with a horror or mystery/suspense or apocalyptic & dystopian subgenre, which is the focus of a book club to which I belong. I was attracted to this book because of the Russian nuclear history angle as I've also recently been enjoying a new (to me) podcast on space history called "Failure to Launch".
I really enjoyed following Valery's stor…

Finished reading "Secrets of the Octopus" by Sy Montgomery.
A fast, fact-packed look at just how clever and adaptable octopuses are. Story after story of these animals outsmarting expectations, escaping tanks, using tools, recognizing people.
5/5 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
https://www.goodreads.com/…

Secrets of the Octopus
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of…

#Requiescat For Marjane Satrapi. https://apnews.com/article/marjane-satrapi-france-iran-artist-dies-5a731cded3163476aee9187aabe43113

'Persepolis' creator Marjane Satrapi dies at 56
Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at 56. The French presidency announced her death on Thursday, highlighting her role as a leading figure in French culture and a devoted advocate for freedom. Satrapi was best known for her autobiographical comic book and film “Persepolis,” which won international acclaim. She was a passionate advocate for women's rights and film education. Satrapi's work often highlighted the struggles of Iranian society, especially …

“Regime Change” describes a leader operating on “grievances and instincts”
who could be found, on at least one occasion, decorating the White House with a tube of super glue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politic…

Takeaways From ‘Regime Change,’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s Book on Trump’s White House
The book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of The New York Times, “Regime Change,” reveals a host of details and surprising exchanges as President Trump pushed to drastically expand his power.

Ex-Biden aides give Jill's new book a frosty review (Alex Thompson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/31/jill-biden-book-backlash
http://www.memeorandum.com/260531/p45#a260531p45

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalat…

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

Sonnet 117 - CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmis…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/116687715575659587
I found this really fascinating (as someone who lives far away from the Americas) and I went to watch the whole video.
Hoping I can persuade the local university that I'm an alumni & should be allowed to access Amelia Frank-Vitale's book

heise | Marktübersicht: E-Book-Reader von 6 bis 10 Zoll im Vergleich
E-Reader gibt es in vielen Größen und Preisklassen. Wir zeigen, worauf es beim Kauf ankommt und welches Modell Ihre Anforderungen erfüllt.
…

Marktübersicht: E-Book-Reader von 6 bis 10 Zoll im Vergleich
E-Reader gibt es in vielen Größen und Preisklassen. Wir zeigen, worauf es beim Kauf ankommt und welches Modell Ihre Anforderungen erfüllt.

What a mind boggling and raw article by Wired: Steve Rosenbaum has a book out, "The Future of Truth", on the effect of AI chatbots on the understanding of truth. Rosenbaum has a master's degree in "truth" from New York University (what does that even mean?) and has decades of experience in this field: creating news programs for MTV and reporting on the aftermath of 9/11 in New York and much more.
But the New York Times reported that Rosenbaum's book is heavi…

We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.

Thoroughly behind on my reading this year, softball has consumed me, but managed to finish this little nugget:
Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225819376-charlatans

Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamb…
From snake-oil salesmen to Donald Trump, the gripping s…

Decided to read Lord of the Rings again which I also have as physical book ... oh heck I wish I could increase the font size!

Finished reading "The Deep Sky" by Yumi Kitasei.
Humanity's first generation ship, headed towards a habitable planet, is knocked off course when a bomb kills three crew. Asuka, the alternate who barely made the mission, must find the saboteur.
The locked-room mystery and the impostor syndrome angle are well done. But the crew blurs together, and the captains' unexplained trust in Asuka is anemic.
3.5/5 ⭐⭐⭐✨

The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi th…

"Little free libraries are turning into 'Little Bee Libraries' to give pollinators a cozy place to rest"
#Bees #Libraries #Insects

'Little Bee Libraries' turn book boxes into adorable pollinator sanctuaries
In addition to neighborhood plant swaps, trinket exchanges, dioramas, and more, Rachael Harms Mahlandt proposed a new craft idea that helps pollinators thrive.

When a book fails to provide an index, you just have to take matters into your own hands. I wish that were the only thing about this book that makes me a bit grumpy. Still, it’ll get used. #C64 #books

Good sign when the book comes with this as a bookmark

Happy to present this Java Week Geekly, special sick leave edition 🤧
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/139/

I feel confident that not every person agrees on what "used LLM to make art" means.
Some might be obvious "write X" but other seems less obvious to me. LLM to market a book? LLM to fix an email to a publisher? LLM to make a grocery list so you have more time to do art?
I feel like all of that could count because everything in your life affects everything. Everyone could pick their own line or we could all agree on one but there is no clear answer.

"Maurice and Maralyn" bt Sophie Elmhirst. A story of their lives, that were more than the story of their shipwreck caused by a sperm whale and the four months at sea before they were rescued.
Interesting how people can change, but their true being remains very much the same.
#book #goodread

Were you aware of…
Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day, yesterday July 31st?
Or did you miss it like I did?
I was busy all day, turning in a book proposal to re-launch my #AccordionRevolution book with an audiobook version
So at least I was observing I guess
😊 @…

Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day | Days Of The Year
Take some time to research the many varied and unique instruments in the world, and consider picking up an uncommon instrument yourself to expand your horizons.

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14 year old comes into my office and asks if he can borrow my copy of Snow Crash.
Me:
“Oh you’re interested in that kind book now, I suppose. Cool. Yeah you can definitely borrow it!”
*me, remembering how that book ends*
“Ummmm maybe we should save that one for later. Here’s my copy of Cyptonomicon. You’ll love it.”
He’s on a pretty long leash as far as content goes, but he does not need to read about the events surrounding the dentata quite yet… 😬

@…
Thinking beyond articles and blog posts: a chapter of a book suggests use of a non-existent software package.
Would you assume that the chapter is AI-generated?

gonna publish two versions of a library: AGPL and MIT. the MIT-license version will occasionally send a screenshot of your desktop to a random person in your address book

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
COMBAT//MOMMY:
🎵 Black Pill Book
#COMBAT #MOMMY
https://combatmother.bandcamp.com/track/black-pill-book

I am reminded of the time AudioEye filed a SLAPP against me and its attorneys used untagged PDFs to do so.
IMO [added the ‘IMO’ because AudioEye are litigious bastards and might claim I’m implying a legal ruling happened and that I’m more of a filthy liar than they are], an indictment of AudioEye’s accessibility capability and both its and its attorney’s ethics.
Anyway, useful nuggets are littered throughout the book, in case you don’t have it:

@… yeah! this started from a Free Comic Book Day at a local shop and they turned me on to League of Comic Geeks to do pull lists

Event: Houston – Book Celebration of Living Islam
I'm pleased to be part of a panel celebrating the new book by my doctoral advisor Ali Asani. The book is Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith. The event is free, but registration is required. Friday, June 5, 2026
https://

Hussein RashidEvent: Houston – Book Celebration of Living Islam
I’m pleased to be part of a panel celebrating the new book by my doctoral advisor Ali Asani. The book is Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith. The event is free, but registration is requ…

I hear that some #book publishers sell rejected texts, sent in by wanna-be book authors, to AI companies for #LLM training.
Garbage in, #garbage out.

📚 My book review of The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late
Cory has the amazing ability to say things in a way they completely resonate. His view on the current hype cycle and how it links to the thinking patterns of Big tech managers make a lot of sense. If only more decision makers could see beyond “oh, look, shiny” and dig a little deeper, or at the very least read this book (I've already shoved …

For #ios27 i'll be super happy if it just stops replacing common words with capitalised surnames from my address book when dictating

Alright, Europeans, I have some questions…

Decided to read Lord of the Rings again which I also have as physical book ... oh heck I wish I could increase the font size!

Jon G. in Glasgow UK starts to look at the book of Proverbs
#Proverbs

After Macmillan's Minotaur Books signed a two-book, $2M deal with author Jerry Falade, his agency, Europa Content, withdrew support over concerns he used AI (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)

observing jerry garcia's birthday by reading one of his favorite #comix, tim boxell's commies from mars. #comics

MINI MOVIE REVIEW
"Remarkably Bright Creatures"
This movie was like if a Hallmark or Lifetime movie became watchable and had a budget.
It's simple and fun, and Sally Field still has it.
My wife, as usual, told me I should read the book because it's much better.
#Movies #Netflix

@… ich kann die App Book Tracker sehr empfehlen. Es fließen keine Daten ab und man kann die Bücher umfangreich beschreiben, rezensieren und kommentieren …
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1491660771

Book Review (with spoilers) - There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.quora.com/profile/Ben-Curthoys/Book-Review-There-Is-No-Antimemetics-Division-Here-be-spoilers-this-is-for…

"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
[DOI…

i am not enjoying the book i’m reading and am picking fights with the author
whoever read this book before me had similar outbursts 😂 gonna run out of margin!

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

Not that I share all of @… 's rosy post bubble projections, but his #AI book sure is a breath of fresh sense, and a good antidote to the LLM mania echo chamber.

"The Witches of Moonshyne Manor" is exactly the book I needed this week. It's a book about good people with good intentions doing their best and sometimes making mistakes and then figuring out how to move forward. #bookstodon

Lucky, lucky Londoners. I'm quite excited about this new book, with its cheery title

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
John Adams:
🎵 John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Habanera
#JohnAdams
https://open.spotify.com/track/38YPFlDoObk2L0scf19MSr

Book Bites: A NSW Premier's Reading Challenge Podcast For Students
Australian authors read the first chapter of books featured on the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge book lists. Episodes span the 3–4, 5–6, 7–9 and 9Plus lists...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.co…

"This phenomenon brings us to the one potentially useful thing about A.I. slop. Social media is overrun with it, from shrimp Jesus to protean monsters to Iranian propaganda in the style of Legos, and people hate it. Identifying an image, song, book — or TikTok series — as made by A.I. is one of the surest ways to turn social media users against it. "
Opinion | The Joy of Hate-Watching A.I. Slop - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/fruit-love-island-ai-slop.html

Finished reading "Tokyo These Days, Vol. 2" by Taiyo Matsumoto.
The continuation of the story in which a retired manga editor tries to launch an independent anthology, pulling together artists who are all quietly worn down by the industry in different ways.
Same unhurried, melancholy register as vol. 1, more meditation on creative integrity vs. commercial pressure than plot. The night-time Tokyo transition art is gorgeous.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 2
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

Enjoy this clip of #Trump trying to describe
the Declaration of Independence.
As said elsewhere, he really does sound like the stupidest kid in class bullshitting his way through a book report.
This is the moron you voted for - right there on video. But it's everyone else that are "low IQ liars", right MAGA?

But there's a twist:
The book is filled with blank pages.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/she-wrote-book-offering-biblical-184105768.html

She Wrote A Book Offering ‘Biblical Proof That Trump Will Save America.’ There’s Just 1 Catch — And MAGA Won’t Like It
Rihanna Teixeira has sold enough copies to pay off her debt.

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

A.Word.A.Day --brave new world
A good title names a book. A great title names the world beyond it. These titles escape their bindings and walk straight into the language.
This week we feature words and phrases from book titles that have done just that.
https://wordsmith.org/words/brave_new_

Insiders say the nonfiction book publishing industry lacks contractual standards for AI use, leaving it vulnerable to copyright infringement and hallucinations (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nonf…

Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI
The recent discoveries of AI hallucinations in nonfiction books has underscored the unique vulnerabilities of the publishing industry, reports Charlotte Klein.

Stored Sun: What a Book Actually Is
Ask ten readers what a book is and you will get ten metaphors and no definitions. A mirror, they say, or a door, or a passageway with footfalls behind it. The metaphors flatter the reader and obscure the object. None of them tell you what is sitting on your shelf, dark and patient, while you sleep. Here is the answer. A book is stored sun.

Stored Sun: What a Book Actually Is | David Boles, Blogs
Ask ten readers what a book is and you will get ten metaphors and no definitions. A mirror, they say, or a door, or a passageway with footfalls behind it. The metaphors flatter the reader and obscu…

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…

"Are Libraries the Hidden Book Market?" @ New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/are-libraries-the-hidden-book-market-with-erin-cox-of-words-money
"What if the most powerful tool in your book marketing strateg…

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

hmpf mastodon.social returns a lot of 500 or 503, maybe a sign to go to bed and read a book

Since subscribing to the @… , for fun I've been reading all the old issues from the first on. This creates frissons when you find a review of a book that seems old and familiar but was then brand new. Here, for instance, is Lighthill on Gödel Escher Bach:

James Lighthill · Strange Loops

Jill Biden on that disastrous debate and Joe's decision to withdraw (Susan Page/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/29/jill-biden-book-joe-biden-debate-reaction/90277719007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p104#a260529p104

Beste plek om "Atlas van tuindorpen in Nederland " te lezen is natuurlijk in de tuin 😋
Prachtig boek van Martijn Haan en Bart van Hoek. Fijne, sociaal bewogen architectuur, mooi beschreven en gefotografeerd in historische en huidige context, en gelukkig heb ik al een aardig aantal van de beschreven tuindorpen bezocht.
#book

I am so over the audio book I am listening to. I know, I know. But it started out really cool and I was hoping it would spin up again. However, I’ve been falling asleep for the last three weeks to around 30 minutes of the book thanks to a 10-minute sleep timer and going back to start from where I fell asleep. At this point it’s basically medicine.

TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-now-…

TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok | TechCrunch
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.

➡️ We Energies Cookie Book Archive
#bookmarks

The question of whether AI is merely clever, actually intelligent, or truly conscious
—whether it is just a highly sophisticated artifact or an actual emergent mind
—may seem abstruse and philosophical.
Are we just chopping logic here and arguing over imperfect terminology?
But the answer would have important implications for Robert Wright’s thesis that the arrival of AI,
-- like the appearance of actual aliens in a well-armed starship,
-- should and must …

Adopt AI or Die?
In his new book “The God Test,” Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

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

New Trump book's authors detail how they pried loose White House secrets: 'We nearly killed ourselves' (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/new-trump-book-regime-change
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p115#a260623p115

Finished reading "Dungeon Crawler Carl" by Matt Dinniman.
Earth's surface is demolished overnight and survivors are funneled into a televised alien dungeon crawl. Carl and his ex's cat, Princess Donut, have to play a rigged game — or die trying.
I was tepid on LitRPG as a genre, but I really enjoyed this one. First book in a long series, but I finished wanting more.
4.5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first …

From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter

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 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.

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…

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