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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2024-05-26 08:29:33

"the squirrel book" von phyllis kelway, collins 1944, reprint 1946: eine märchenhafte geschichte um zwei aufgepäppelte und ausgewilderte eichhörnchen (und einer klugen hündin).
letztes jahr bei "scrivener's" in buxton gefunden, jetzt endlich gelesen. #squirrelcontent #squirreliana

foto des buches "the squirrel book" von phyllis kelway
seite aus dem "squirrel book" von phyllis kelway
seite aus dem "squirrel book" von phyllis kelway
seite aus dem "squirrel book" von phyllis kelway
@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2024-04-26 10:16:52

More on 'Murder by the Book', the new exhibition at Cambridge University Library on crime fiction.
#literaryheritage

Trump VP contender writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.…

@servelan@newsie.social
2024-05-26 01:08:13

Minnesota Just Passed a Law Making It Illegal for Libraries to Ban LGBTQ Books | Them
them.us/story/minnesota-tim-wa

@DodoTheDev@front-end.social
2024-05-26 12:56:37

Book 4 of Discworld done. Another great book I thoroughly enjoyed. I'll move on to the next one either tonight or tomorrow.
#amreading #Discworld #bookstodon

An infographic of my reading stats for Terry Pratchett's Mort, created by Bookly android app. 

Pages read: 371
Total reading time: 10 hours, 7 Minutes and 7 seconds
Reading speed in pages per hour: 36 p/h
Most pages read in one day: 77 pages
Most minutes read in one day: 112 minutes. 
4/5 stars.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2024-04-26 19:35:56

Kristi Noem Describes Executing Puppy She 'Hated' in New Book (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
rollingstone.com/politics/poli
memeorandum.com/240426/p45#a24

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2024-04-27 07:38:49

"Sick and twisted" makes her the ideal running mate for Trump, I would have thought. Two of a kind.
Conservatives condemn Trump VP hopeful's ‘twisted’ admission of killing dog theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a

@mia@hcommons.social
2024-05-25 16:43:03

I really enjoyed @… 's lecture 'about what book history can teach us about LLMs & what they might teach about BH' at Senate House / SAS this week so I'm glad he's posted the text of his talk

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-04-24 18:00:15

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

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005). 445801 nodes, 1149739 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/bookcrossing
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2024-04-26 13:58:17

Read to your babies

text: man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading to a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it's teaching them about the concept of a book and how there's new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that, it's teaching them how language works, and beyond that it's really actually teaching them about human interaction, and really really it's them learning about existing in a three-dimensiona…
@timelfen@assemblag.es
2024-04-26 13:29:07

Very excited to see this collaboration between 2 of the most interesting research & scholarly communication infrastructure initiatives out there. This stellar cast of scholars & infrastructure builders will undoubtedly be pushing the limits in fascinating ways. This is a project worth following. Bravo!
From: @…

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2024-05-24 11:24:03

So I went to the Sofia's Spring Book Fair 2024 to see my favourite people in the book industry. Martin Hristov (the one responsible for publishing my own first two books), and Iliyana & Jordan, that cute young couple resolved to take the publishing world by storm (responsible for the books of the English speaking authors I am translating into Bulgarian). Today is May 24th, a national holiday, and the park is bustling with book lovers crowding the bookstalls. It's MARVELOUS, I tel…

Publisher Martin Christov (Ergo Books).
Publishers Iliyana & Jordan (Benitorial Books)
My latest book, "Vazev, 1887"
Iliyana and, hey, this is me, Petar.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2024-04-24 18:06:43

Moved the weekend to Tuesday-Wednesday to camp a state park. No computer/Internet, but do I have the right book to relax or what? 😀
Lots of wildlife of course, especially cardinals one of which visited our campsite.
(posting this at a break in civilization)
#camping #forest

A blue hammock hanging between trees at a forest campsite. A green-and-gray tent seen through the clearing past the hammock.
Cover of a book held up by someone (not visible) inside a blue hammock. The book cover is red with a portrait of three people dressed like US revolutionaries from late 18th century (think Washington crossing Delaware). Book title is 

DAVE BARRY SLEPT HERE
A SORT OF HISTORY OF 
THE UNITED STATES
A male cardinal perched on a tree branch in a forest.
@spamless@mastodon.social
2024-05-25 22:57:43

Over on the trading forums I ply daily, I get tweaked over smartasses who pooh-pooh Edwin Lefèvre's 101-year-old masterpiece, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" because the real protagonist, Jesse Livermore, ultimately failed. So, I wrote this to one such party pooper now:
#trading

https://stocktwits.com/bearcharts/message/574305521

When people talk about Livermore today they certainly mean, not the mortal man with all his failings and culpabilities, his private depression and his anachronistic foolishness, but the legend painted by by Edwin Lefèvre in his famous 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑎̀ 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑓. And that book is a wonder: a wonder of characterization, of narrative, and of insight. Trading insight. The book is a 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 that exalts and lionizes what is essentially an allegory. But wh…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-04-27 06:40:49

A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful (Jonathan Ford/Financial Times)
t.co/zKeg0D4jrx

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-05-25 19:00:01

The iconic ending scene from the first Planet of the Apes (1968) movie of the main character realizing he's been on earth all along was actually made up by the film!
The horrendous 2001 adaptation that ends with Mark Wahlberg landing his space ship in ape Washington D.C. and seeing ape Abraham Lincoln was closer to the original ending to the 1963 book.
I just found out and needed to share this cursed knowledge with you.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2024-04-26 19:35:56

Kristi Noem Describes Executing Puppy She 'Hated' in New Book (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
rollingstone.com/politics/poli
memeorandum.com/240426/p45#a24

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2024-05-24 21:50:00

book recommendation: "War is a Racket", Smedley Butler (amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTFMK1ZY)
this is a book about the actions of what we currently call the "military-industrial complex" from about 1900 to 1935. it remains as relevant today as it was back then. it …

@mela@zusammenkunft.net
2024-05-23 19:18:14

Wenn ihr gerne Sachen lest, die skurril und sehr, sehr lustig sind, empfehle ich diese Serie: share.libbyapp.com/title/57618

@benb@osintua.eu
2024-04-26 14:14:27

Illia Ponomarenko: The story of wartime Kyiv: benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/illia

@bourgwick@heads.social
2024-05-25 17:19:57

restarted a book i thought i maybe didn't like, but turns out i was just in an airport experiencing interminable delays when i tried before. @…

@formschub@fnordon.de
2024-05-26 19:03:58

Ich kann leider kein Spanisch, bis auf LABIOS AMOROSOS und ANO TENTADOR. Weil ich darüber in einem Reisebericht von Bill Bryson einmal fast vor Lachen geplatzt wäre.
Neither Here Nor There Page 11 Read online free by Bill Bryson
bookreadfree.com/542446/133172

@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social
2024-04-26 01:53:20

I’m so weary & so depressed, & I think I’m going to grab a good book & go to bed. I’ll leave you guys with some beautiful cactus flowers from our front yard. Good night, Mastodon. #BloomScrolling

iPhone photo of 2 vivid yellow cactus flowers with deep velvety red centers dappled with summer sunlight
@DrYohanJohn@FediScience.org
2024-04-24 19:28:33

"... an author's failure to produce a readable book is not ipso facto a failure to produce a good book — the history of philosophy bears witness to this..."
jstor.org/stable/3489148

@jgkoomey@mastodon.energy
2024-04-26 13:37:12

Seems like most everyone in the US needs to reread this book and take its lessons to heart. amazon.com/Sneetches-Other-Sto

@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org
2024-05-24 19:42:57

"This is the diary of Ukrainian writer Vakulenko. His body was found in Izym in 2022. This diary was found by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina. She died after shelling in Kramatorsk in 2023. The Kharkiv factory that printed this book was destroyed by Russian shelling today." #RussiaIsATerroristState
HT @…

Youtube screenshot showing a tweet: This is the diary of Ukrainian writer Vakulenko. His body was found in Izym in 2022. This diary was found by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina. She died after shelling in Kramatorsk in 2023. The Kharkiv factory that printed this book was destroyed by Russian shelling today
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2024-04-25 23:27:45

G/O Media sells The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago firm owned by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson; former NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is CEO (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2024/04/25/busines

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2024-04-25 17:13:47

There was a news message going viral a few days ago, that most published books sell fewer than a dozen copies.
Here is a reply from two years ago debunking this. And explaining what "published", "book" and "sale" all could mean. (But none of the useful combinations support that claim.)
#books

@servelan@newsie.social
2024-04-27 06:08:33

'Team Trump approved': National Republican Committee now fundraising on dog-killing book - Raw Story
rawstory.com/kristi-noem-dog-2

@cybeardjm@masto.ai
2024-05-23 16:09:32

Oh Mojeek is doing LLM summaries...
Here's one for my domain/blogs...
It's 2/3 true... But still some hallucinations... (not a book, no bookmarking service...)
blog.mojeek.com/2024/04/mojeek

The summary by mojeek for didiermary.fr

Didiermary.fr is a personal website run by Didier Mary, offering various resources and services. It includes a guide to the Mastodon federated social networks, a book review of "The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto Crashing," and a French translation of the book. The site also features a bookmarking service, information on Al bots and how to block them, and an African Music Forum. Didier Mary has had three instances of the website, with the latest one current…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2024-04-26 11:40:54

Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog - and goat - in new book (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr
memeorandum.com/240426/p7#a240

@ampersine@mastodon.online
2024-04-27 00:41:54

via TheSnarkTank99 on some other website

A picture of Kristi "Cruella" Noem, Republican governor, sitting at a desk. Text says: "Puppy killing piece of shit KRISTI NOEM - The truth about how I lure puppies into a gravel pit and then murder them by firing squad. I KILL PUPPIES." The text is styled as a book cover.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2024-04-26 02:52:14

March 9, 1789 through April 25, 2024. The first is the date the US Constitution began operation, the second date is the day the US began its descent to monarchy.
After looking at Lessig's new book on stealing a Presidential election I have little doubt that at noon Jan 20, 2025, TFG will be standing on the capital steps, hand on a Trump Bible, Melanomia by his side, with John Roberts administering the oath of office. Twenty minutes later the arrests will begin.
If you want…

@simon_lucy@mastodon.social
2024-05-25 18:53:04
Content warning: #DrWho Ep. 4 73 Yards #Spoilers

#DrWho
This is a bit like a guest issue in a long Comic Book Series where the protagonist leaves the stage for the side kick to shine.
Except the guest writer is the Showrunner.
It's Welsh, Gothic, Funny, Scary, sometimes very scary and a completely different timeline. And seemingly the Dr is entirely unaware.
Posit, that it's another of the Celestial Toymaker'…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2024-05-22 15:32:00

heise | Vier E-Reader mit Farbdisplay im Test: Entspannt im Freien lesen
E-Book-Reader werden bunt: Wir testen Tolino Shine Color, Pocketbook Era Color, Pocketbook Inkpad Color 3 und Boox Note Air3 C.

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2024-04-26 20:25:54

@… @… “Holy shit it’s surprisingly hard to build an authoritarian dictatorship (I.e., a Corporation)” feels like it should be the title of a management book.

@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2024-04-24 20:01:03

#Upcoming “Second Hand” is a lovingly curated selection of remarkable book covers found by designer #JesseReed while browsing the stacks at local book shops in NYC and around the world. Available via #Vernacular

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2024-04-24 18:06:43

Moved the weekend to Tuesday-Wednesday to camp a state park. No computer/Internet, but do I have the right book to relax or what? 😀
Lots of wildlife of course, especially cardinals one of which visited our campsite.
(posting this at a break in civilization)
#camping #forest

A blue hammock hanging between trees at a forest campsite. A green-and-gray tent seen through the clearing past the hammock.
Cover of a book held up by someone (not visible) inside a blue hammock. The book cover is red with a portrait of three people dressed like US revolutionaries from late 18th century (think Washington crossing Delaware). Book title is 

DAVE BARRY SLEPT HERE
A SORT OF HISTORY OF 
THE UNITED STATES
A male cardinal perched on a tree branch in a forest.
@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2024-04-24 14:54:39

Mining and Refining: Uranium and Plutonium
poliverso.org/display/0477a01e
Mining and Refining: Uranium and Plutonium When I was a kid we used to go to a place we just called “The Book Barn.” It was pretty descriptiv…

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2024-05-23 15:06:07

Finished "The Echo of Old Books" by Barbara Davis. I enjoyed the first 2/3rds of it, but soon any such joy succumbed to a growing annoyance with some of the characters, some facets of the plot, a central premise ultimately abandoned, and a sugary predictability that was so obvious I was sure that it would prove a decoy. It was not.
This review (with spoilers) exactly pegs my issues with the book.

@rebekka_m@fnordon.de
2024-04-26 19:47:14

Starting holidays AAAAND End of Watch [2016], part III of Stephen #King|s Bill Hodges trilogy! \o/. [Hope to get the horrible voicings of that shitty narrator of Finders Keepers out of my mind though...]
I can't say anything but I'm really excited to immerse myself into this last book!! 🎉🫣 #bookstodon

Panda Cute GIF
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2024-04-24 14:13:13

The trailblazing life of Jackie Ronne is described in this interesting #book, "Antarctic Explorer". Although overshadowed in fame by her husband Finn, Jackie has been very influential for emancipation, not only in antarctic climates. By Joanna Kafarowski. #goodread

The cover of the book, a portrait of Jackie Ronne.
@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2024-05-19 14:25:01

Browsing through old blog posts, I realized that I read my first e-book back in Oct2008 on a Bookeen Cybook reader. Interestingly, I decided to start my adventures in e-book land with rereading Bram Stoker's Dracula (probably because it was freely available at Project Gutenberg). My old blog post ended with the conclusion that this device probably will not initiate the decline and fall of the book culture as we know it... ;-)

Bookeen Cybook E-Book reader back in 2008. Still a rather primitive device compared with modern kindles. Its screen is showing the begin of the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula: 3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place...
The device lays on top of an opened German book of prayers from the late 19th century. Its pages start with beautifully decor…
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2024-05-22 16:04:44

Paywalled, but the funniest thing I’ve read in months. Also thought-provoking in its way: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05
[Tl;dr: New Yorker writer considers the Blinkis…

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2024-06-11 22:20:00

Book about book bans banned by Florida school board;
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty
theguardian.com/books/article/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-04-25 23:50:56

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2024/04/25/busines

@brainsik@hachyderm.io
2024-04-26 22:27:08

Daaaamn. @…’s takedown of _ The Anxious Generation_ is masterful.
thedailybeast.com/the-coddling

@benb@osintua.eu
2024-04-26 14:14:27

Illia Ponomarenko: The story of wartime Kyiv: benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/illia

@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online
2024-05-26 00:35:00

The second Dehoarding Accountability Zoom Session was yesterday and was really supportive and lovely. Do book onto the next one if you fancy some chat, some mutual support, and some dehoarding knowing that others are doing the same. overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

@jimcarroll@futurist.info
2024-05-22 10:19:04

Daily Inspiration: "A Gentle Reminder: One person's concept of success is another person's idea of failure" - Futurist Jim Carroll
A few days ago, I finished the book "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul."
It was a good read, and so after I was done, I went to Amazon to find another book about Apple or Steve Jobs. The algorithm threw me a book titled "Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level.&quot…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-05-27 02:00:05

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018). 350 nodes, 346 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/marvel_partnerships
@wmclark@publishing.social
2024-06-12 08:46:30

1979’s The Book-Store Book documents a lost borough of booksellers. ‹ Literary Hub
lithub.com/1979s-the-book-stor

@formschub@fnordon.de
2024-05-26 19:03:58

Ich kann leider kein Spanisch, bis auf LABIOS AMOROSOS und ANO TENTADOR. Weil ich darüber in einem Reisebericht von Bill Bryson einmal fast vor Lachen geplatzt wäre.
Neither Here Nor There Page 11 Read online free by Bill Bryson
bookreadfree.com/542446/133172

@davej@dice.camp
2024-05-24 00:59:07

I bumped into #ScoMo in the lift a couple of times about 20 years ago. Ergo, there’s a nonzero chance he’ll try to comp me a copy of his book, too. 😱 #OhTheDread

@drahardja@sfba.social
2024-04-24 21:19:31

I think Toyota was right all along.
It’s an unpopular opinion among EV purists, but I think hybrids will reduce a lot more carbon emissions than BEVs, for the simple reason that way more people can switch. Even without access to charging outlets, hybrids are far more efficient thanks to their regenerative braking. With access to outlets, they are as good as EVs within their electric range, which will account for most of the daily commutes of their owners, and all with far smaller batte…

@toothFAIRy@scholar.social
2024-04-24 18:15:27

It is not too late to get your @… Book Dash application in!
This is our bi-annual contributor event which is loads of fun!
This is also how I learned how to use GitHub, so no previous experience necessary!
Apply by 26 April: #OpenScience #Reproducibility

@jgkoomey@mastodon.energy
2024-04-24 15:38:34

Our latest book, out in late Dec. 2022– Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders
solveclimate.org

Mrs. Clinton accused four justices
— John G. Roberts Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett
— of being “teed up to do the bidding” of conservative political and religious organizations and leaders
— though she believed many Democrats had not realized that during those justices’ confirmation hearings.
“It is really hard to believe that people are going to lie to you under oath, that even so-called conservative justices would upend precedents to …

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2024-05-24 18:43:46

The next thing I want to build into interactive website footer: Display the last book I read/reviewed on #bookwyrm. Maybe at some point over the long weekend!

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2024-04-26 08:30:45

This arxiv.org/abs/2210.02498 has been replaced.
link: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

@AmazingMeagen@historians.social
2024-05-18 19:02:47

Join #SocietyOfBookbinders for
#BookArtsDay
1 June 2024
Kentish Town Congregational Church, Kelly St, London, NW1 8PH UK
Free entry

Book Arts Day
1 June 2024
11 am - 4 pm

Orange background 
Line drawings of multiple styles of bookbindings including exposed spines, according, peepshow
Ruth Martin 
Set of four small books with turquoise, yellow, blue and red covers.
An accordion fold book with line drawings on each page entitled Drawing Pins.
Tessa Sinclair 
Three volumes with spines facing viewer. Treads projecting from centre of spines.
One volume open with right page showing plant photo in black and white.
@philosophyblogs@botsin.space
2024-05-22 14:00:34

Daily Nous || Lackey Wins 2024 NASSP Book Award
dailynous.com/2024/05/22/lacke

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2024-04-25 23:27:45

G/O Media sells The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago firm owned by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson; former NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is CEO (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2024/04/25/busines

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2024-04-25 10:10:35

I always wonder why do people give page numbers along with quotes, as if they assumed that the reader would easily find the same edition of the book. Sometimes they even don't tell which edition it was, nor give any other hints, such as chapters.

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2024-04-26 02:52:14

March 9, 1789 through April 25, 2024. The first is the date the US Constitution began operation, the second date is the day the US began its descent to monarchy.
After looking at Lessig's new book on stealing a Presidential election I have little doubt that at noon Jan 20, 2025, TFG will be standing on the capital steps, hand on a Trump Bible, Melanomia by his side, with John Roberts administering the oath of office. Twenty minutes later the arrests will begin.
If you want…

@cheryanne@aus.social
2024-05-13 09:00:29

Buy Right Property Book
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Buy Right Property Book
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-04-25 23:50:56

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2024/04/25/busines

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2024-05-22 09:28:01

@… @… I think you would both really enjoy this book, immediately recognising the people and places in it. Fascinating insights into modern Japan, an undercurrent of "Canadianness", and just very, very poignant.
I'd …

Book cover. Graphic of a sun, a wave and a mysterious package.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2024-05-23 14:53:18

I'll be attending a reading of the book Kittentits by Holly Wilson tonight in Milwaukee.
"A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts."
➡️ zandoprojects.com/books/kitten

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-05-26 03:00:06

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

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances. 107 nodes, 352 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/game_thrones
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2024-05-23 10:34:47

This just popped up in my Facebook memories.

A photo of a page of a book titled "Keeping away computer viruses with malachite", which is just as batshit as you would expect. 

Book is possibly
https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Energy-Success-Health-Harmony/dp/1402723768

I think the image originally came from this tweet:

https://x.com/johannes_mono/status/601466673380491265
@ripienaar@devco.social
2024-05-21 11:03:25

I am as excited about a Run Your Own Mailserver book as the next geek. But how is that banana image in any way appropriate?
I didn’t back that book due to it.

@evemassacre@assemblag.es
2024-04-24 10:37:38

This morning I finally have read the first chapter of your 'Resisting AI' book, @… and can't but join the choir of praise. Thanks for clearing the fog around the topic, clearly pointing out possible social, climate, political consequences and being a really good explainer of basics of how the heck AI works.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2024-05-22 17:20:23

Everyone is making Total Recall jokes about Microsoft’s new torment nexus, but it’s literally coming from the movie title.
It’s because Gordon Bell (RIP) wrote the book “Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution will Change Everything” while being researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research in 2009.

@wemic@social.linux.pizza
2024-05-21 13:53:42

Following the "Implement DNS in a Weekend" guide ( implement-dns.wizardzines.com/ ) by @… of Wizard Zines (

@servelan@newsie.social
2024-05-25 17:48:41

Now that we know how fragile precedent can be in the hands of fascists: Clinton criticized fellow Dems over what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion rights, saying that her party underestimated the growing strength of anti-abortion forces until many Democrats were improbably “taken by surprise” by the landmark Dobbs decision in 2022.
Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats, and for Women - The New York Times

John #Hagee is the founder and leader of
🔸Christians United for Israel, 🔸
which boasts 10 million members
-- more than the total population of American Jews.
#CUI was founded in 2006 after the publication of Hagee’s book “Jerusalem Countdown,”
which asserts that a U.S.-Israel war against Iran is bo…

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2024-05-23 13:15:39

This week I wrote about thermal delight, temporal delight, and becoming more alive to the changing seasons. (Also: tiny houses!)
#Architecture
salrandolph.substack.com/p/the

@ClaireFromClare@h-net.social
2024-05-24 09:25:36

Medieval field strips for nature!
"Weasels darted across the paths and whitethroats sang from the thistles. Hen harriers returned to hunt in the fields left fallow..."
theguardian.com/environment/ar

@christydena@zirk.us
2024-04-24 06:37:41

The Narrative Society's Sustainability Reading Group is holding a session on Marco Caracciolo's book 'Slow Narratives'
"Slow Narrative [...] investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and the nonhuman world."
16 May, at 5 pm CEST (7 pm in Dubai, 6 pm in Tampere, 4 pm in Newcastle, 11 am in Columbus, etc.) Marco will join.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-05-26 03:00:06

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

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances. 107 nodes, 352 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/game_thrones
@phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
2024-05-23 19:00:24

I'm breaking cover on #WriteRisky, the working title of the book I'm trying to flog, because apparently you can't get published these days without first herding some cows.
It has something to do with free milk, anyway.
And as LinkedIn is where the business cows are, I'll be talking about it there until somebody stops me by putting a contract in front of me.
linkedin.com/posts/phillipdewe

@davej@dice.camp
2024-05-24 00:59:07

I bumped into #ScoMo in the lift a couple of times about 20 years ago. Ergo, there’s a nonzero chance he’ll try to comp me a copy of his book, too. 😱 #OhTheDread

@benb@osintua.eu
2024-06-18 01:12:42

Victoria Amelina’s book War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War to be published: benborges.xyz/2024/06/18/victo

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2024-05-12 06:22:35

"book mouse" by #tomgauld: myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/7501 😍

Image: a neat, arch shaped mouse hole in a skirting board. Within, a little mouse sits on a cosy armchair reading a book, surrounded by bookshelves. 
Caption: the book mouse (Mus Bibliothecus) is a well-read relative of the house mouse. The species rarely leaves their bookholes so are not considered a pest, but can be bribed to vacate a property with a library card or book token and bus fare.
[alt text from Tom Gauld's twitter account: https://twitter.com/tomgauld/status/1789211078175412640]
@servelan@newsie.social
2024-04-27 06:12:52

'She can't be VP now': Fellow Republicans slam Noem after puppy-killing brag - Raw Story
rawstory.com/noem-republicans-

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2024-05-24 15:56:32

Now out: The "#openscience meets #citizenscience"-section which I've been editing for the LIBER "Citizen Science for Research Libraries" guide book! 🎉
Details and links to the guide are hre: libereurope.eu/article/open-sc

@DodoTheDev@front-end.social
2024-05-18 22:26:07

3rd Discworld book done and an excellent read. I don't see why I should stop, book 4 will start tomorrow.
#Discworld #amReading #bookstodon

Bookly inforgraphic of my stats for reading Terry Pratchett's Equal Rights, book 3 of his Discworld series. 

Streak award: 5 consecutive days
Pages read: 299
Total reading time: 8 hours, 48 minutes and 50 seconds
Reading speed in Pages per hour: 33
Most pages read in a day: 83
Most minutes read in a day: 157 minutes.

Made with bookly for Android.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2024-06-05 16:04:00

Im Video: E-Book-Reader mit Farbbildschirm im Test
Bunte Comics auf dem E-Reader lesen: Wir testen vier E-Reader mit Farbdisplays in verschiedenen Preisklassen.
heise.…

@wmclark@publishing.social
2024-05-21 15:38:05

San Franciso’s Arion Press turns the book into an art object
sfstandard.com/2024/05/18/san-

@benb@osintua.eu
2024-04-24 20:52:57

Russia establishes advisory body to evaluate books' compliance with national legislation: benborges.xyz/2024/04/24/russi

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2024-05-12 06:28:48

"Book bans! In this economy? Isn’t everything hard enough already?" by First Dog on the Moon: theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-04-24 08:20:32

A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price (Adam Iscoe/New Yorker)
t.co/Rd5tDIofjq

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-05-22 18:00:04

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 78 nodes and 79 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010). 78 nodes, 79 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/edit_wikibooks#bi
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-05-23 08:50:52

Q&A with Taiwan's ex-Digital Minister Audrey Tang on Plurality, a book on collaboration-enhancing tech she wrote with Microsoft's internal economist Glen Weyl (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/consensus-magazin

@servelan@newsie.social
2024-05-12 15:04:54

Someone's telling porkies...
Noem claimed she cancelled a meeting with the French President in 2023 - The French government denied a meeting was ever even scheduled
French government slams Kristi Noem over shock claim about Emmanuel Macron in new book | Daily Mail Online

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-05-23 08:50:52

Q&A with Taiwan's ex-Digital Minister Audrey Tang on Plurality, a book on collaboration-enhancing tech she wrote with Microsoft's internal economist Glen Weyl (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/consensus-magazin

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-05-22 22:00:17

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
networks.sk…

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network. 19428 nodes, 95497 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/marvel_universe
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-05-22 21:00:05

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
networks.sk…

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network. 19428 nodes, 95497 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/marvel_universe