@taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.comMy first translated short story The Violation of the TrueNet Security Act is on the ToC of The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26.
Thanks to Nick Mamatas who submitted it to LightSpeed and recommended it to this book.
https://file770.com/big-book-of-cyberpun…
@ruralgloom@c.imGetting acceptance emails is a solid way to end a week! I'll officially have a table at the upcoming JAX Book Fest. #writing
@wmclark@publishing.socialGreta Thunberg accuses Edinburgh book festival sponsor of ‘greenwashing’ | Greta Thunberg | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/greta-thunberg-accuses-edinburgh-book-festival-sponsor-of-greenw…
@lauraehall@xoxo.zoneToday's my book birthday! 🎉 Happy birthday, PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE!
ICYMI: I wrote a book about the history of immersive entertainment, plus how to play escape rooms, form successful teams, and solve any puzzle 🗝️🔒
🔎 Get your copy (or one to gift to a friend!) at http://bit.ly/PlanningYourEscape
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social"If we burn" might turn out to be the book about cross pollination of street protests during the last decade which I've tried to track down for two or three years. I mean there had yo be a book. (Actually it appears to be more comprehensive then the book I was looking for. I thought it would be nice to read about 2019, the book starts with the Arab Spring.)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with former Washington Post editor Marty Baron on his book, pressure from Trump, not sharing the Steele Dossier, journalists' free speech rights, and more (James Rainey/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
@Defiance@sfba.socialWell this sure looks interesting. A new book about the women of the 2 Tone era ska revival bands.
The unity of black and white people was a key aspect of the second wave ska era. But where did gender fit in? Many bands had few, if any, women in their lineup, so women had to do it for themselves. The author interviews more than 50 women involved in ska in the UK during the ‘70s and ‘80s.
The author also hosts a live Zoom book club every Wednesday night this summer where they rea…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaWell, *checks clock* it has now been 20.5 hours since our net died. Glad I have local files for my nighttime MST3K sleep noise. I had planned to put as big a dent as possible in Destiny 2's season pass today. Ended up launching Audacious, picked "ambient" genre (glad I have 130gb of music files lol.) Decided to read The Lost Airman. Good book, took me about 4 hours. Here's a review:
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI posted about this book last night, it's really a wonderful imaginative, beautiful book on #insects focuses on very familiar European species. This bit really made me 🤯 though. Apparently a few years ago Sweden set aside a billion Swedish kroner to completely map all the Swedish flora and fauna in the
@bodo@notes.tasche.meOne of the nice features of #BookWyrm: it’s a simple way to create book lists with comments why a book is on my list.
For example this list about great #ClimateChange books:
@leodurruti@puntarella.partyKim Thayil sui primi passi dei Soundgarden - tratto da «Grunge Is Dead. Storia orale del grunge» di Greg Prato.
#FediLibri
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.orgToday, I've been revisiting our 2021 book chapter on #Exploratory #DataAnalysis for large #MovementData
Crazy that it has been only 2 years, well 3 since most of the writing happened.…
@hackernews@mstdn.digitalFound in a Library Book (2022)
https://oaklandlibrary.org/found-in-a-library-book/
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com…
@bourgwick@heads.socialof the various used book smells, i often forget the warm cloistered comfort of discarded library #books.
@redcrew@mstdn.socialJoin Mi Right to Read, protect the right to read and oppose book bans at Michigan libraries.
Michigan libraries recruiting citizen army to aid book ban wars.
https://www.bridgemi.com/quality-life/michigan-libraries-recruiting-citizen-army-…
@cdarwin@c.imShift Happens tells the story of keyboards, covering 150 years from the earliest typewriters to the keyboards in our pockets.
https://shifthappens.site/
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialFinally the book arrived! A Peek inside Digital Marketing from @… and a quick look through suggests it’s a really good overview of most of the topics affecting #seo along with some very good advice. Gleaned wisdom from 341
@philippbayer@genomic.socialNot a single word about virtualenvs
@brian_gettler@mas.toNew publication on #Indigenous history and the history of #ResidentialSchools in Canada:
Crystal Gail Fraser and Jessica Dunkin, “‘This Year Book... Has Been Entirely Produced by Staff and Students’: Indigenous Youth, Indian Schooling, and Historical Production in the Northwest Territories, 1959-7…
@wmclark@publishing.socialSheila Nevins Makes Directorial Debut With Book-Banning Documentary – Deadline https://deadline.com/video/sheila-nevins-mtv-documentary-the-abcs-of-book-banning/
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI am reading this #book and it feels like reading an echo of my own thoughts staring back at me.
These pages are nearly verbatim the same as what I've been saying in my own #marketing work, over and over.
This is from Brittany Hodak's "Creating Superfans":
@lukem@hachyderm.ioThis was the last time I ordered a physical book from @….
I ordered a book on 26th August. October has just begun.
Zero information on whether my order was dispatched at all. No tracking number or anything.
Their help section says nothing helpful at all other than 'if you're in Europe, wait 3-4 weeks'.
I chose the most …
@jrefior@hachyderm.io"you have zero privacy, get over it"
Marketplace interview about Clearview AI, with NYT reporter Kashmir Hill who wrote a book about her investigation into them and their efforts to stop her ("Your Face Belongs to Us").
No transcript, but audio of the interview if you click "Listen Now", and an excerpt from the book below that
@dichotomiker@dresden.network"Simulacra and Simulation" ist ein Buch von Jean Baudrillard, das 1994 veröffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Idee, dass unsere Gesellschaft von Simulationen und Kopien dominiert wird, anstatt von der Realität. Baudrillard argumentiert, dass die Grenze zwischen Realität und Simulation verschwimmt und dass die Simulationen oft als realer empfunden werden als die Realität selbst. Er beschreibt drei Stufen der Simulation: die erste Stufe ist eine einfache Kopie der Re…
@codinghorror@infosec.exchangeThis is a perfect book title, no notes, ship it
@lgrando1@sciencemastodon.comThe science rap is the best.
Book: The Science of Science — Dashun Wang
https://www.dashunwang.com/book/the-science-of-science
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaWell, *checks clock* it has now been 20.5 hours since our net died. Glad I have local files for my nighttime MST3K sleep noise. I had planned to put as big a dent as possible in Destiny 2's season pass today. Ended up launching Audacious, picked "ambient" genre (glad I have 130gb of music files lol.) Decided to read The Lost Airman. Good book, took me about 4 hours. Here's a review:
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usOur autumn 2023 newsletter is up on Flipping Book for the reading: #GeorgiaMuseumOfArt
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeRealized last night that I had lined up copy-editing services for the upcoming book, but not developmental editing services. (My mistake, not theirs.) Meaning the already late next book will be even later. In related news, any other writers out there with recommendations for a freelance developmental editor? #bookstodon
@bot_wg@lepoulsdumonde.comRT @jodipicoult :
Last night I was at the first preview of @TBT_musical about the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany and today I woke up to the fact that 13 of my books have been banned in Volusia County FL. Want to know more about the kind of person behind the bans? https://www.…
@UP8@mastodon.socialreading now: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented The Future by Jill Laporte
#books
@bourgwick@heads.socialof the various used book smells, i often forget the warm cloistered comfort of discarded library #books.
@taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com「コラボレーション」が再び傑作選に掲載されます
File770によると、9月26日発売の『Big Book of Cyberpunk（サイバーパンク大全）』の掲載一覧に、私の初翻訳短編『The Violation of the TrueNet Security Act』（翻訳：ジム・ハバート、名付け親はジョン・ジョセフ・アダムス）が掲載されるとのこと。 Violation of the TrueNet Securty Actは初の翻訳作品であると同時に、私にとって初の商業作品であり、初の短編小説でもある。また、多くの傑作選に収録された作品でもある。オリジナルの邦題はご存知『コラボレーション』だが、英題はジョン・ジョセフ・アダムスが提案してくれた。正直なところこのタイトルでなければここまで何度も掲載されることはなかっただろう。 ストーリーは、コンピューターがどのようにして命を得るかについて。舞台はGene…
@hynek@mastodon.socialtfw you’ve created something that excites you like nothing in years but it feels like you have to write a book first to lay the context to make wide appreciation even possible
@alpha1beta@libretweet.comGoogle scammed me.
I purchased a book and an audio book, but this account isn't allowed to access the family library. I know I started to buy it on the right account, but i guess when it made me sign in, I switched accounts.
I purchased it on the right account and requested refunds on the unread, unopened audio book and ebook on the other account.
They refused. They have changed their policy to basically no refunds ever. It use to be if you didn't open it, you could …
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euHere's an idea for a high-end #ebookreader device:
The device opens like a real #book, has two screens, left and right, each one mounted on a self-expandable/inflating pad, its thickness measuring the pages read/left. Front and back covers of the e-book currently read are …
@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.socialSo wie für die Masse an Desinformation oft nur wenige Accounts im Fokus stehen, so gibt es auch hauptberufliche book banner. "The majority of all school book challenges in the 2021-2022 school year came from just 11 people."
https://www.washin…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialJe vous balance une surprise en primeur lŠ : de la haute qualité, plus de 2 ans de travail, un produit léché autant sur mobile que sur desktop, si t’aimes les #livres, rendez-vous sur https://bookvillage.app
lancement offic…
@cdarwin@c.imShift Happens tells the story of keyboards, covering 150 years from the earliest typewriters to the keyboards in our pockets.
https://shifthappens.site/
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSpending Sunday afternoon sitting in the garden with a cold drink and a good book to read. I honestly don't think I've had the (weather) opportunity to do this since the beginning of June.
Still, better late than never.
@vform@openbiblio.socialHome - The Palace Project
https://thepalaceproject.org/
"The Only Not-for-profit, Library-centered Ebooks Marketplace"
"A transformational, library-centered platform for digital content and services"
@jvschrag@hachyderm.ioI came across my first spam book yesterday. While looking for a particular textbook, I found a different book, with the same title, and an almost-identical author name. The interior was LLM-generated. The reviews were mostly outraged people who had intended to buy the “real” bestselling book.
It occurred to me you could completely automate the spamming process, from identifying bestselling candidate books right through to publishing the fakes. Which probably means that somebody alr…
@jake4480@c.imI'm not a big comic book movie guy (aside from Deadpool) - stopped seeing em actively after the first Avengers. But I'll see em here and there eventually, I've been a fan of Batman since I was a kid, loved that first Keaton one and seen all of since really up until Batman v Superman, which I'm finally seeing tonight, 10 years after it came out. 🤣
@jamesgleick@zirk.us
@Billybobbell@twit.socialJust finished reading the #thechildandtheriver by Henri #Bosco. A beautiful novel which I would recommend to anyone. A delightful story which meanders through you mind like a river.
@hackernews@mstdn.digitalCory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game
https://boingboing.net/2023/08/02/cory-doctorows-new-book-on-beating-big-tech-at-its-own-game.html
HN:
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoDaily Inspiration: "With a little bit of courage and a whole lot of imagination, anything is possible." - Timidus the Mouse
I did a little AI-generated movie short, narrated by SNOOP DOGG
Everyone has always told me I should write a kid's book. So I decided to try to learn if I could do a kid's movie using an AI.
I learned I can - it's the story of Timidus, the Mouse.
How did I do it? I took a blog post I wrote sometime back, used an AI to turn i…
@kasilas@mastodon.ieSociety of Authors calls use of bad reviews for book blurbs ‘morally questionable’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/01/society-of-authors-calls-use-of-bad-reviews-for-book-blurbs-morally-questionable
<< I'm not sure whether it's morally questionable, but surely the advertising standards authorities should be stepping in when it is clearly misleading e.g. the Jordan Peterson book.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"What fancy books are you reading? What serious work am I reading? Who is the more impressive reader?" @ First Dog on the Moon: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
@leovarnet@qoto.org@… Thank you! And this is a very good reminder that your book is in my to-read list!
@sfmatheson@fediscience.orgChange is hard.
#Evolution is easy.
That's the theme of my writing (book) project. My claim is that we* have a tendency to think of evolution as hard: life is fragile, good things are rare, death is everywhere. Life seems impossible, miraculous. Plus, we continuously confront a depiction of evolution as big radical change that feels like an impossible transformation.
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza
@fogelnet@heads.social
@jaystephens@mastodon.socialDaily pic of Nimbin
@jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.comOooh...
Tiffany Haddish is reading from her book "Layla, the Last Black Unicorn" at the MLK Library in San Jose, CA this Saturday.
https://sjpl.bibliocommons.com/events/64c16aac804cbd28001d8286
@ehud@scholar.socialHow come I didn’t know of the #team500 hashtag before?!
(I take it that it is inspired by the 5-5-5 rule for writing. https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/if-you-want-to-write-a-book-write-500-words-a-day.html)
@evemassacre@assemblag.es"Researching this subject, I thought at first the expulsion of dust was a tiny, but intrinsic part of the creation of modernity – the making of the new through the conquest of disease and dirt, cleanliness as a doctrine of control, right down to a microscopic level. As I read on, however, “whiteness” kept turning up alongside the dirt ... The history of 20th-century cleanliness is a history ... of racialised inequalities, too." An excerpt from Jay Owens' book Dust
@phil@subtype.ukAnyway my morning was spent chatting to my brother while he casually made hundreds of paper butterflies, which was nice #art #butterfly #craft
@petergleick@fediscience.orgTHE THREE AGES OF WATER offers a positive vision of the future of water and sustainability.
"A magnificent, mind-bending book." --David Wallace-Wells
"The Three Ages of Water is authoritative, far-ranging, and fascinating." --Elizabeth Kolbert
@sarajw@front-end.socialI had this book as a child. Printed in 1990. I was 7, now I'll soon be 40.
The themes haven't changed.
https://archive.org/details/900131-the-blue-peter-green-book-1990
@rcassano@mastodon.worldAos leitores mastodônticos, adicionei o IVUC ao Book.review do @… .
Agora jš dš pra resenhar a história por lš também.
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Sorry, Dawn, not Don. Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz. She trained dogs for Ted Kennedy and the Obamas. I think it's a good book. Since my dog is a very fearful rescue who we adopted when she was 3, not all portions of those books worked for her, but all helped.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Ewa Pobłocka
Pianist Ewa Poblocka; Casseptember; Jeremy Eichler's book about the Holocaust and music.
Relisten now 👇
…
@HLGEM@lor.sh#WordWeavers MC POV you realize you're a book character, what do you do?
I go give the Main characters the hint they need to solve whatever the problem is.
@cheryanne@aus.socialGreat Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@MidniteLibrary@glammr.usOn this episode of Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more!
https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-
@WhatTheChel@mas.toThe Boston Public Library has become the third library in the country (after the Brooklyn and Seattle Public Libraries) to join the Books Unbanned initiative, started by the Brooklyn Public Library in an attempt to fight censorship and book banning by expanding access to books for teens and young adults nationwide.
Anyone ages 13-26 who lives in the U.S. can sign up for a free e-card to access the library's entire collection of e-books and e-audiobooks.
@riduidel@framapiaf.orgDonc cette histoire de Musk qui empêche l'Ukraine de combattre la Russie est sans doute fausse. Et la biographie dont cette anecdote est le teaser est remplie d'erreurs. Et Musk est un menteur pathologique (pas étonnant, vu le personnage). La vieillesse est un naufrage, comme disait l'autre. Parfois, elle commence tôt.
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange"Smartt also wondered whether her notes had any scientific value, and eventually she wrote a book, Words on the Threshold, published in early 2017, about the linguistic patterns in 2,000 utterances from 181 dying people, including her father." https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI am.currently reading Morten D.D. Hansen's fantastic book (alas only available in Danish) #InsekternesBog - partly inspired by Dave Goulson's similar pæon to #Insects and it's absolutely wonderful.
And I absolutely also endorse what @…
@wmclark@publishing.socialA Book Is a Book Is a Book—Except When It’s an e-Book | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-lawsuit-libraries-books/
@brian_gettler@mas.toNew book:
Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen, Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land
#history
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Taylor Lorenz on her new book, Extremely Online, women's role in building the internet, new media's effect on journalism, Twitter, Threads, and more (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/…
@Billybobbell@twit.socialJust finished reading the #thechildandtheriver by Henri #Bosco. A beautiful novel which I would recommend to anyone. A delightful story which meanders through you mind like a river.
@hackernews@mstdn.digitalBlack Art of 3D Game Programming (1995)
https://archive.org/details/BlackArt3DEBook
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoDaily Inspiration: "With a little bit of courage and a whole lot of imagination, anything is possible." - Timidus the Mouse
I did a little AI-generated movie short, narrated by SNOOP DOGG
Everyone has always told me I should write a kid's book. So I decided to try to learn if I could do a kid's movie using an AI.
I learned I can - it's the story of Timidus, the Mouse.
How did I do it? I took a blog post I wrote sometime back, used an AI to turn i…
@bot_wg@lepoulsdumonde.comRT @sarahkendzior :
This quote of mine is getting shared a lot lately. It's from my book THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY, available here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250189998
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu @wmclark@publishing.socialSociety of Authors calls use of bad reviews for book blurbs ‘morally questionable’ | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/01/society-of-authors-calls-use-of-bad-reviews-for-book-blurbs-moral…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org @vform@openbiblio.socialBook Banning Debate Moves to U.S. Senate [Library Journal]
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/book-banning-debate-moves-to-us-senate
> The ongoing debate over the freedom to read moved to the chambers of the U.S. Senate Judiciary C…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Ewa Pobłocka
Pianist Ewa Poblocka; Casseptember; Jeremy Eichler's book about the Holocaust and music.
Relisten now 👇
…
@cheryanne@aus.socialGreat Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.comMy first writing short story will be published again!
https://taiyolab.com/2023/09/03/violation-of-the-truenet-securty-act-is-on-the-list/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Michael Lewis, as he talks about his new book, Going Infinite, why he considers SBF to be essentially genuine, The Blind Side controversy, and more (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euQuick, be melancholic, read a book by the slightly opened window, have a cup of cocoa, stretch lazily, and pat the dog sleeping at your feet 😴
@bourgwick@heads.socialfundraiser for a book about "saturation 70," a filmed but never-completed sci-fi movie starring gram parsons, michelle phillips, & brian jones's 5-year-old son. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wolfandsalm…
@vform@openbiblio.socialBook Banning Debate Moves to U.S. Senate [Library Journal]
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/book-banning-debate-moves-to-us-senate
> The ongoing debate over the freedom to read moved to the chambers of the U.S. Senate Judiciary C…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: private equity firm KKR is in advanced talks to acquire Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global for around $1.65B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kkr-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-simon-schuste…
@wmclark@publishing.social @hackernews@mstdn.digitalLaunch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills
HN: #hackernews - blastbking 2023-08-02 12:45:59 Score: 52
@wmclark@publishing.social10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust https://hbr.org/2023/10/10-pitfalls-that-destroy-organizational-trust
@wmclark@publishing.socialRevealed: how Hitchhiker’s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago | Douglas Adams | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/03/revealed-how-hitchhikers-guide-author-predicted-rise-of-ebooks-30-y…
