@aardrian@toot.cafeI’ve mentioned before that podcasts aren’t my jam. Except when shoveling. Maybe. Tech podcasts make we want to throw down my shovel and write stuff.
Stumbled across ‘A Meal of Thorns’ from ‘Ancillary Review of Books’ (“an experiment in utopian criticism”):
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/ame
@spamless@mastodon.socialI will try to use "Demon Copperhead" in my book club next spring here in Wiesbaden, Germany.
#books #acitivism
@trochee@dair-community.socialI read Bostrom's book SUPERINTELLIGENCE back when I worked at Google —
Blaise A— insisted that it go on the "AI" SF book club reading list
(as an aside: I started the book club; we were mostly reading, uh, cautionary stories)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE is garbage, & I said so: throw around big numbers until your moral calculus has a floating-point overflow & you can be convinced of obviously crazy things
(phrasing wasn't so clean at the time)
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@aardrian@toot.cafeIf you are part of a book club, like maybe an accessibility book club, remember that there are far better choices than Amazon for your book.
For example, this book can come from your local independent seller or benefit a support fund:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/…
@cdarwin@c.imLeague of Women Voters
#SantaBarbara
Book Club
About this event
The book is "Money, Lies, and God" by Katherine Stewart
Date and Time
Thursday, June 19, 2025,
1:30 PM until 2:30 PM
Event Contact(s)
Anne G Heck
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
@cheryanne@aus.socialNovel Feelings
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAnarcho-syndicalism is really cool, and Rudolf Rocker is a big part of that for me.
He spent years lecturing about it at the Jubilee Street Club in the East End, and his book is one of my absolute favorites, that I always keep close by at home.
I wish I had a better picture, but hey, this one’s what you get!
#Anarchism
@aardrian@toot.cafeWhen I do web dev, I don’t just work in the DOM, I put on a pencil moustache and work in the MANDOM.
Pat didn’t know it when he made the shirt, but it’s a guys’ web dev shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/78574049-mandom
(Or a shifter smut lady book club tank, as it t…
