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@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-11-25 14:11:22

My next bedtime book, is a big biology book; heck it's not light reading; it's 3kg!
(I got the older 5th edition for about ~£10 - the current edition is a fortune)
I suspect it'll take me a couple of years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecula

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-11-26 15:18:47

I crave knowledge, mother :neocat_book:

Photo of a fluffy white cat on a fluffy gray rug near a fluffy brown pillow next to an open book and cup of coffee. The kitty is partially on the book making it look like it's reading, but in reality, it's probably looking at that cup of coffee it wants to knockover.
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-10-27 00:50:01

Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers

@stf@chaos.social
2025-11-26 17:06:26

by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.

9. BOOK REVIEW: APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY [censored] Reviewer

Applied Cryptography, for those who don't read the internet news, is a
book written by Bruce Schneier last year. According to the jacket,
Schneier is a data security expert with a master's degree in computer
science. According to his followers, he is a hero who has finally
brought together the loose threads of cryptography for the general
public to understand. Schneier has gathered academic research, internet
gossip, and everything he co…
Issue 1 TALES OF THE KRYPT Page 14 of 16
oc ID: 6823780

Playing loose with the facts is a serious problem with Schneier. For
example in discussing a small-exponent attack on RSA, he says "an
attack by Michael Wiener will recover e when e is up to one quarter the
size of n." Actually, Wiener's attack recovers the secret exponent d
when e has less than one quarter as many bits as n, which is a quite
different statement. Or: "The quadratic sieve is the fastest known .
algorithm for factoring numb…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-24 12:00:14

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
@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-11-23 19:55:29

Paul’s Address Book app updated! edintone.com/pauls-address-boo My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r

@axbom@axbom.me
2025-12-26 11:23:55
These two are my companions this Boxing Day ('Annandag jul' in Sweden): a marzipan pig and a book about when Michael J. Fox was making Family Ties, Teen Wolf and Back to the Future all at the same time.

There's actually a fun story about how Teen Wolf finished filming before BTTF but was released after, with an articulated strategy to gain from the BTTF publicity. This worked really, really well. But I knew this before opening the book.

Another fun fact: The house …
@Hans5958@mastodon.social
2025-12-26 15:37:49

RSF, can you fix the introduction book on front of The Uncensored Library? The one on the server got replaced with the Iran book for some reason (left). Checked the world download and the introduction book is there, as I remembered (right).
#Minecraft #TheUncensoredLibrary

Minecraft screenshot showing the Iran (incorrect) book (in the server)
Minecraft screenshot showing the introduction (correct) book (in the downloaded world)
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-24 12:02:55

Why do we love football? Chuck Klosterman's new book explores America's obsession nytimes.com/athletic/6994340/2

@laura@social.coop
2025-12-24 21:19:40

#CommonplaceNotes lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/com supply chains, hope, cool. thanks

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-26 10:27:06

Folks, our very own @… has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.
gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-d<…

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-12-26 02:30:51

The year 2025 was the year I finally fulfilled my destiny and became a bureacrat — I couldn't be happier! White shirt, red tie, brown belt, mechanical in my approach to things. I love spreadsheets, files, book-keeping, accounting, finances.
Most of what I do in a day is read E-Mails, fill out forms, write documents, read documents, call and text people. I have a desk, a printer, get a tea in the morning.
All this with the added spice that I often write press releases, get cuttin…

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-23 20:13:53

spotify calling anna's archive "anti-copyright extremists" is extra lulzy considering that spotify built their initial library on pirated mp3s. gizmodo.com/early-spotify-was-

@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
2025-11-27 04:53:21

"Ab einem gewissen Alter sind viele Menschen, die man kannte, verstorben und können einen nicht mehr verklagen."
Lesenswertes Interview mit der Schriftstellerin Margaret Atwood (86). Neues Buch: "Book of Lives"
#Alter #Buch

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-25 21:42:01

from my link log —
Python anti-patterns.
docs.quantifiedcode.com/python
saved 2019-07-24 do…

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-26 09:32:14

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115960
I mean sure: Given enough abstraction we don't _know_ if AIs can feel. We also don't know if a book can feel. Or a broken glass. Or poop.
Gimme a highly paid job as corporate philosopher.…

Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online.
When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours.
He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”,
unable to use most bank cards.
Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States,
putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin.
Why?
Because alongside two other judges of the international crimin…

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-11-26 19:58:39

A student just sent me the sales rank of my book on a certain online retailer.

Best Sellers Rank: #250,256 in Books
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-11-27 06:06:00

Pali Text Society book clearance
ift.tt/VA4uLr8
Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-01-23 17:48:45

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.
sltrib.com/ar…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-25 15:21:11

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge (Popular Information)
popular.info/p/tennessee-publi
memeorandum.com/251125/p42#a25

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-27 06:50:20

'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says  - ABC News
abcnews.go.com/Politics/youll-

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-12-26 05:26:35

Finished “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, the only short story she ever wrote.
Two girls, Twyla & Roberta, bond as roommates for a few months in a shelter at age 8. They lose touch but encounter each other later in life, always at odds.
Morrison tells us one girl is black and one is white, but intentionally removes all racial clues and language. Brilliant thought experiment, of which, why do we care? Does it matter?
4.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-01-25 21:57:54

As if I didn’t have enough excitement in my life, I am reading this history of a Great Lakes mining and shipping company.
It only took twenty pages to utter the famous, chilling phrase.

I’m holding a book cover:

Vein of Iron
The Pickands Mather Story
by WALTER HAVIGHURST
Seventy-five years of
Great Lakes enterprise
Page 21. “Lake Superior does not give up its dead“ is highlighted.
@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-11-26 22:50:32

8 Things Veganism is NOT #AnimalRights

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2025-11-24 19:41:05

Hey there #bookstodon folks. Would love help finding my next #audiobook adventure. I just finished the latest book in "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and, while amazingly fun, it reminded me that I try to only read series that have endings. I hate waiting for the next book!
So what are…

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-11-25 18:26:14

"Quiet Piggy!", a new book by President Donald Trump | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
youtube.com/watch?v=ch7zrzkl5Is

@stb@chaos.social
2025-12-25 12:01:44

hackertours.hamburg.ccc.de has a few cool tours left, make sure to book yours! #39c3 #hackertours

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-01-25 16:07:12

Asian Pacific Americans For Action
#photo #photography

A woman wearing a sweater with knit pants and anothjer wearing a grey T-shirt and jeans both wing long hair stand in front of a sign for Asian Pacific Americans For Action with many photographs and a great looking book with a Phoenix on the cuver labeled PARALLA
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2026-01-26 22:26:09

C10 - Ultraworld
TARRANT: Oh, and what would you advise? That we sit around exchanging speculations? You heard the transmissions. Cally's in trouble. She needs help. In my book you don't ignore a call from a fellow crew member.
AVON: Meaning?
blake.torpidity.net/m/310/121

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-24 10:00:14

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
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social
2025-11-26 09:27:15

#EroticMusings 26: How is masculinity visually expressed, highlighted, or accessorised in your work or setting?
My current roster of main characters are three cis lesbians (I plan to un-cis one of those in later books, though) and Erytan society has no other visible gender marker beyond "self-declaration".
Book three even makes the conscious decision of depiction tran…

@emilis@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-26 15:50:48

One of the stupidest fixes I ever did (after two days of searching how to fix the problem).
The problem was Kobo Books iOS app opening links to book chapters inside popups, instead of jumping to the target page.
😞
#epub #kobo

Code diff.
Added non-breaking spaces around var "number" inside some template generating an HTML link.
@mapto@qoto.org
2025-11-27 05:56:39

Quite exciting talk:
EFF presents: Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
3 December, online
eff.org/event/rewiring-democra

@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-26 05:24:20

Olha que coincidência engraçada. Eu estou ouvindo os episódios do #RPGuaxa em sequência e, como não tenho muito tempo para essas coisas, estou muito atrasado. E o que eu peguei pra ouvir agora é justamente um episódio especial de Natal, só que antigo (acho que é de 2022) rs.
Ališs, pra quem curte RPG eu recomendo muito seguir o podcast "Realidades Paralelas do Guaxinim" do

This is an audio player screen displaying a podcast episode. The podcast cover art features a large raccoon character in a brown robe, a smaller green-robed wizard figure, two figurine miniatures (a soldier and a dragon), polyhedral dice (red d20, green d12, yellow d4, white d6), and an open book on a table. In the top-left corner of the cover, there is a circular logo with a raccoon and the text “RPGuaxa.” Above the cover, the title “Realidades Paralelas do Guaxinim” appears in green. Below th…
@nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-11-23 21:52:53

I'm listening to the audiobook of *Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot* by Andrea Grignolio. The book is ... fine, but the translation from Italian was either by a non-fluent speaker or a bad AI. The wrong word or phrase is often used, and it's jarring. For instance, the narrator says "exasperate" for "exacerbate," and "... attributed this cause to the deaths ..." when English would say, "... attributed the deaths to this cause ..."

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-12-25 04:16:35

"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

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-01-22 20:03:07

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…

An image of the cover of my upcoming book, The NIST 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework: Practical Risk Management Using Real-World Incidents.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-21 23:54:12

Dak Prescott is replacing Tony Romo again, this time in record book for Cowboys QBs foxsports.com/articles/nfl/dak

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-19 20:40:49

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/n

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-24 15:00:02

What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of about
Down Under up for?

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-01-26 02:29:07

spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @…'s epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s #jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even d…

Andy Beta, Cosmic Music book
@macandi@social.heise.de
2025-11-18 07:04:01

heise | Ratgeber: Mit Apples Pages auf dem Mac zum eigenen E-Book
Apples Textverarbeitung Pages bietet schicke Vorlagen und viele Werkzeuge, um Schriftstücke in Szene zu setzen. So bauen Sie ein elektronisches Buch.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-01-24 18:43:39

"'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

@cketti@int21.dev
2025-11-20 17:42:29

I very much enjoyed the first third of the book "Crafting Interpreters". It's about building a tree-walk interpreter for Lox, a programming language specifically created for this book. The interpreter in the book is implemented in Java. I, of course, used Kotlin for my implementation.
craftinginterpreters.com/

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-25 16:22:10

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Ebbb:
🎵 Book That You Like
#Ebbb
ebbb.bandcamp.com/album/book-t
open.spotify.com/track/1zBcD22

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2026-01-24 03:35:09

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"

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2025-12-26 14:21:42

Delving into WWII films highlights the resilience needed to conquer great challenges. These stories remind us how small actions today impact tomorrow. As a history enthusiast, I'm driven to glean lessons from the past. What's your favorite historical event or book that offers deep insights? 📚✨ #History #ThoughtfulExploration

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-01-24 17:40:00

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

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-11-27 04:57:15

Finished "Moon of the Crusted Snow" by Waubgeshig Rice.
As winter approaches, an Anishinaabe reservation in Northern Ontario loses contact with the outside world when a blackout takes down power, internet, and eventually hope for resupply. They slowly begin to realize the blackout is much more widespread and that they're on their own. That is, until some outsiders begin to trickle in.
Sparsely written and beautifully bleak.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

@izzychambers@vivaldi.net
2025-11-24 22:41:46

@… Good book, but I don't want to live it.

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 15:54:40

I wrote a blog post that could be seen as depressing, but I think it's full of hope and perhaps you'll agree.
I'd like to hear what you think.
rasterweb.net/raster/2025/12/1

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2026-01-22 15:08:07

Congratulations to Paul Stroble ‘82 M.Div. on publication of his fourth full-length poetry collection, "Holy Week, 1847"! finishinglinepress.com/product

Montage of a book cover an photo of the author. Book cover title Holy week, 1847 Paul Stroble
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-11-21 17:08:00

@… Thought that was a barely pseudonymous book about you! 😂
mastodon.social/@bookblabla/11

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2026-01-22 16:26:30

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.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-23 16:56:23

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2025-11-24 21:04:35

So for the “copying isn’t stealing” crowd, let me make this really clear:
Yes it fucking is
If an author made a copy of their book openly available for download on their site & said “just hit this link to pay me for it” & you downloaded that without paying for it you fucking stole it.
No diff.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-26 07:05:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Florry:
🎵 First it was a movie, then it was a book
#Florry
florry.bandcamp.com/track/firs
open.spotify.com/track/0CO8FIC

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-09 16:05:00

Kleiner E-Book-Reader nimmt Smartphones huckepack
Der Xteink X4 ist kompakt gehalten und hält per Magnet etwa an einem iPhone. Für Handys ohne Magnet gibt es Aufkleber.
heise.de/n…

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…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-26 18:00:04

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.skewed.de/ne…

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network. 19428 nodes, 95497 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/marvel_universe
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-24 08:50:39

Q&A with Z.ai Director of Product Zixuan Li on Chinese AI models embracing open source, attracting global users for its GLM model, training on memes, and more (ChinaTalk)
chinatalk.media/p/the-zai-play

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2025-11-24 21:46:13

FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook
<docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce> (parts) | <

@sean@scoat.es
2025-11-21 20:26:52

Oh wow; @… on Tested with Adam Savage, showing off her pop-up book Alphabet in Motion.
This is the first I've really seen of the book other than the Kickstarter updates, and it looks amazing.
Pretty sure my copy is on the way.
What an accomplishment!

@cketti@social.int21.dev
2025-11-20 17:45:51

In the remaining two thirds of the book a second interpreter – a bytecode virtual machine – is built using C. I'm very much looking forward to that part of the book. However, I can't bring myself to write C, not even for something inconsequential like this. So I guess I'll finally have to get serious about properly learning Rust.

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2026-01-26 17:55:54

A friend is learning #photography. Sent me some wonderful photos he took out in the snowstorm yesterday, asked what I think of the composition.
I complimented them and gave some notes for improvement.
He responds: “#Claude didn’t like that one.”
I, flabbergasted, asked why in the world he was prompting an #LLM for feedback on his photos.
He sent me a screenshot of #AI’s feedback on another photo, replying that because he’s new to photography and the responses give him a starting point for finding what people have written about those things.
He specified that he knew most of the things that the chatbot pointed out, but he didn’t catch one of the bullet points.
The screenshot, mind you, is just of random descriptions of the photo with fancy-sounding exaggerated subtitles. (Stuff like: “color contrast: that copper Mini against white snow and blue accent—finally some visual pop.”)
I’m so confused why my friend finds this helpful. I recommended a short book on composition and then gave tips for where to find good visual references to study.
He replied that he didn’t have the time for that right now, but will look at the book.
Sigh. This makes me sad.

@scott@carfree.city
2025-12-24 05:35:12

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.

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-01-23 12:40:15

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

@pre@boing.world
2025-11-23 10:56:00
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report

Kitchen Mishap takes us through some bitcoin visualisations.
Max keiser promoted KM to buy, and he learned from antonopolis book. So he started trying to graph it since software for money is scary if there's bugs you can lose lots of other people's money.
He spirals blocks around the years, rendering views of the whole chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #dataVis

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-11-18 22:51:30

I’m not saying that this is good, but it recalled for me the ancient times when the phone company (there was only one) sent everyone a fat (in urban areas) book in tiny type on thin paper with everyone’s phone number, alphabetically by surname. Businesses were in their own book. You could also go to the reference section of the public library and use the book with all of the numbers in your area in numerical order.
Ancient times. The 1990s @…

@groupnebula563@mastodon.social
2026-01-24 00:12:41

Little Paid Library (book vending machine)

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-12-18 02:27:16

....Huh.
buttondown.com/monteiro/archiv

Let’s discuss one of the most violent phrases in the English language: “Did you read that book I gave you?” For the sake of transparency, I’ll admit to once having been one of these people. You come across a book, you decide someone would enjoy it, you give them a copy for their birthday, or Christmas, or just ‘cause. Then every time we see them we ask them if they’ve read it. What we’re really looking for is an award for having recommended the right book, or the right band, or the right TV sho…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-12-23 03:34:55

RE: hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1157
The author (Edmund Berkeley) is the co-founder of the ACM (I’m a member), he definitely did some other good stuff like being a peace activist and coming up with concepts that highly influenced the personal computer revolution 25–30 years after the book was published.
But the extreme toxic positivity about computers that “will solve all social problems” because “humans are so irrational” remains a huge problem with AI stans since the late 1940s.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-23 05:47:05

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyom

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-01-11 20:16:31

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

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 22:52:13

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening #acrel networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@izzychambers@vivaldi.net
2026-01-24 13:03:01

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

@stb@chaos.social
2025-12-25 12:01:44

hackertours.hamburg.ccc.de has a few cool tours left, make sure to book yours! #39c3 #hackertours

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2026-01-24 18:53:05

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 🥰

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-01-21 21:18:23

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.”

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…

@cketti@int21.dev
2025-11-20 17:45:51

In the remaining two thirds of the book a second interpreter – a bytecode virtual machine – is built using C. I'm very much looking forward to that part of the book. However, I can't bring myself to write C, not even for something inconsequential like this. So I guess I'll finally have to get serious about properly learning Rust.

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2025-12-23 01:29:25

John is blending the world of Godot and SwiftUI-style programming in SwiftGodotBuilder, it is crazy cool and he is writing a book/guide as he goes along:
swiftgodotbuilder.com/

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-12-20 02:53:11

Made cookies from this book tonight… Two recipes down and 99 to go!
#baking #cookies

Cookies and a book.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-12 01:50:38

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)
publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2025-12-23 19:41:50

As a devoted enthusiast of history, science, and fiction, I am constantly inspired by the profound revelations in these narratives. Each book provides a journey that enlightens and entertains. 📚 Which book has captivated you lately? Share your favorites! #BookLovers #InspirationThroughStories

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-12-24 20:41:25

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 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 07:11:54

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening networks.h-net.org/group/annou

The Parenti text challenges students, perhaps for the first time,
to critically assess the dominant pluralist paradigm;
that it invites students to consider the ubiquity of politics in their lives;
that they confront the struggle and inevitable conflict between democracy and capitalism, which is usually ignored.
—Christopher A. Leu, 
California State University, Northridge

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-22 22:00:05

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 29946 nodes and 213603 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010). 29946 nodes, 213603 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/edit_wikibooks#nl
@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-16 18:48:14

this looks really great: "Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team"
skylightbooks.com/book/9781662 via @…

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 06:07:06

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-14 14:00:13

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
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-20 07:13:54

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-20 06:10:27

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-20 14:00:03

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 270 nodes and 323 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010). 270 nodes, 323 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/edit_wikibooks#als
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-22 22:00:04

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
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-11-24 06:10:43

Preternature journal seeking book reviews
ift.tt/zVK83m1
ANN: US Naval History Conference: “Military and Politics: Proper Participation or Perilous…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 06:10:35

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

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 06:10:33

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