@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, our very own @… has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/<…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
@cdarwin@c.imS-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzPickens thrusts himself into the Cowboys' record books in his first season https://insidethestar.com/pickens-thrusts-himself-into-the-cowboys-record-books-in-his-first-season
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt's so fucking sad that this guy who wrote some of the most classic computer books in the 70s and 80s now has gone off the deep end and pooped AI-generated imagery all over his website that _misspells the names of his own books_.
https://mitchwaite.com
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeHey 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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Belle and Sebastian:
🎵 Wrapped Up in Books
#BelleandSebastian
https://belleandsebastian.bandcamp.com/track/wrapped-up-in-books-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gEX8llkEIABEmqoTLHJom
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaSo sehr ich auch von der Story gefesselt bin, die deutsche Übersetzung von 'Das Rad der Zeit' vom Piper Verlag lässt wirklich zu wünschen übrig.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27027822M/Das_Rad_der_Zeit_4._Das_…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThis is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeFreeBSD Accessibility Handbook
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/> (parts) | <https://
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@bourgwick@heads.socialnearing the conclusion of an epic mass market sci-fi paperback & my nose is tragically just slightly too stuffed to smell it. #books
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@brian_gettler@mas.toA student just sent me the sales rank of my book on a certain online retailer.
@scott@carfree.cityFreedom Ship by Marcus Rediker is so good. Thank you @… for the tip
https://bookshop.o…
@ErikUden@mastodon.detook my friends to a kurdish protest and they were so impressed they immediately wanted to know everything about kurdistan and borrowed books from the library about it
@cheryanne@aus.socialHarden Up (And Other Unhelpful Advice)
A review of self help books and products from two completely different angles: the psychologist and the ex-infantry soldier...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/harden-up/
@servelan@newsie.socialAlabama GOP Leader Who Used Fake ID To Vote Has Trans Books Axed From Kids Sections At Public Libraries - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/alabama-gop-leader-who-used-fake-id-to-vote-has-trans-books-axed-from-kids-sections-at-public-libraries/
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deWhen I started programming I had one big disadvantage: no Internet. No looking up stuff online, no asking questions, no easy download of tools, only printed books and magazines (and even those hard to get)…
When I started programming I had one big advantage: no Internet. Whatever I created could not expose any security hole, any personal data, everything just run locally, and the biggest fear was that the police would come for my pirated copy of Sokoban – or even worse that the disk it…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialReview: Truth in fantasy: what Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials taught us over its 30-year run
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/24/philip-pullman-his-dark-materials
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI've spent the past year learning Morse code, and it's ended up being a great deal of fun. I've had a lot of questions. I've tried to share what I've learned with others as I've gone along.
To celebrate the end of the year, I wrote a combination of information, story, and advice. How to get started, mobile apps and websites, books, getting on the air, learning to send, POTA, SST, keys and keyers. I'm not fluent or expert yet, but that means that I still remember what's hard!
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 17 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games that inspire New Year's resolutions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6919073/2025/12/26/eagles-bills-bears-49ers-jaguars-colts-how-to-watch/
@timbray@cosocial.caWhat a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
@jredlund@social.linux.pizzaDon’t Read Poetry by Stephanie Burt
The cover of Burt's Don't Read Poetry. It shows what looks like an uprooted daffodil. #poetry #poetrycommunity I have been working through books on reading, writing, and teaching poetry in preparation for writing a new poetry module. In …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Books:
🎵 Smells Like Content
#TheBooks
https://books.bandcamp.com/track/smells-like-content
https://open.spotify.com/track/0zSeLF3w3mPF9ibTkHZqCp
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 17 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games that inspire New Year's resolutions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6919073/2025/12/26/eagles-bills-bears-49ers-jaguars-colts-how-to-watch/
@cdarwin@c.imI had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand
that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person
to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol.
People were livid lol.
It really changed my perspective on giving.
it's freeing to give without expectation.
-- @inthemidwest.bsky.social
@fgraver@hcommons.social‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust checked out some truly excellent books from the library to read to my 4-year-old:
Adèle & Simon by Barbara McClintock (things to find), The Marvelous Now by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez (rhyming & positive encouragement about mood regulation), and Forts by Katie Venit & Kenard Pak (lovely ode to children's forts).
I had a wonderful reverse-Magritte moment reading Adèle & Simon where Simon loses his drawing of a cat and my kid pointed out one of the actual cats in the image. I said "No, that's a cat, we're looking for a drawing of a cat," before realizing that technically we were looking for a drawing of a drawing of a cat, and the thing my kid pointed to was indeed a drawing of a cat, just not in that category relative to Simon's frame of reference...
#AmReading #ReadingNow #ChildrensBooks
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotToday I have procrastinated by rearranging books. I have far too many for such a small house.
(Doing this reminded me of a piece by a #Palestinian academic I read recently. He has just started teaching again, but all his books have been lost or destroyed. To be without my books would be very hard for me)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialPali Text Society book clearance
https://ift.tt/VA4uLr8
Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
@usul@piaille.fr @netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: 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
@billbert@mastodon.socialGo ahead and @ me, maybe this is covered in the books more thoroughly.
I’m up to halfway through #HeatedRivalry episode 4. (Had to take a break when Shane/Rose met cute, blahblahblah)
We need more blatant pointing out of the high-vis contractual pressure that is on Shane.
1/4
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-cent
@jake4480@c.im
@StephenRees@mas.toDo You Write Your Name In Books? via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/09/Write-Name-In-Books/?u…
@mia@hcommons.social'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/15/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-cris…
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.socialApparently my book (and many others) are available with a 50% discount at Berghahnbooks right now.
Berghahn on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v22iwfjbazxwnx75ao7djix5/post/3mcrlve2m5j27
Find all discounted books here: …
@david@boles.xyzCollecting the Shards
Over the past few weeks, I have published several new books. From the outside, that can look like some kind of creative superpower. Like I locked myself in a room, drank a heroic amount of coffee, and sprinted through a stack of fresh manuscripts until the world blurred and the covers appeared. That is not what happened.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialNew Books Network: "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" https://newbooksnetwork.com/information-literacy-and-critical-thinking
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: 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
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGreat news.
Akenfield is wonderful book, as was the BBC film based on it (possibly available at BFI).
British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan
@servelan@newsie.socialInflation:
In what should be a surprise to no one, Trump cooked the books. : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1pv3off/in_what_should_be_a_surprise_to_no_one_trump/
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.sociali have a dozen or so xmas records on continuous loop for the next couple days, including three by johnny mathis!
this one is a 1967 reissue of the 1958 classic. i picked it up at the used record store up the street for seven bucks.
#nowplaying #OldVinyl
@UP8@mastodon.social🪼 How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
https://lithub.com/how-the-discovery-of-single-celled-marine-organis…
@cdamian@rls.socialAnother year, another bunch of books.
I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.
The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it).
https://
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeLovely article about the magic of physical #books in Asterisk Magazine:
> Kalman is exquisitely attuned to the magic of physical books. In fact, she includes the instructions and ingredients for another type of spell in The Principles of Uncertainty.
>
> Attached on a perforated edge is a folded map of the world, drawn by her mother. “Either put it on the wall,” suggests…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Belle and Sebastian:
🎵 Wrapped Up in Books
#BelleandSebastian
https://belleandsebastian.bandcamp.com/track/wrapped-up-in-books-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gEX8llkEIABEmqoTLHJom
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialIf you liked the AppleTV series, Slow Horses, I recommend reading the books. There are some minor and some major departures. I just finished no. 7, Slough House. They haven’t got that far yet in the series. I’m thoroughly enjoying the books. I have to put them down at 9 o’clock, 2 hours before I go to bed. And I have to wait a few days, well, a week, between books. A sort of palate cleanse. More like decompressing, tbh. Herron pulled a switch at the end that floored me.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieI posted this video about how nice Books Upstairs is and I am sorry to say that I have received *Domestic Mockery* for my voiceover.
My children opine that I sound like I am doing an ASMR video. They are asking when I will start tapping on the books’ spines.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR2mc2kG/
@cheryanne@aus.socialCooking Our Books
Two sisters cooking their way through their mum's treasured recipe books, sharing memories and a glimpse into simpler times...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cooking-our-books/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzBooks Say NFL Field is 'as Wide Open as We've Seen in a Long Time' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/books-say-nfl-field-as-wide-open-weve-seen-long-time
@al3x@hachyderm.ioTime publishes [Atmosphere: 100 Must-Read Books of 2025](https://time.com/collections/the-100-must-read-books-of-2025/7329475/atmosphere/).
I am not reading a book every 3.5 days.
Thus I am wondering how I could use this list.
@cdarwin@c.imAt a Pride festival in October,
a volunteer approached Sara Luce Look, the co-owner of
Charis Books and More,
and shared that decades prior,
a person in her life was sexually abused.
The person’s counselor had suggested they go to Charis for support.
Known as “the South’s oldest independent feminist bookstore,”
the Decatur, Georgia, shop
not only offered books that the survivor found helpful,
but it also provided a safe space where the…
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaI have a stockpile of media, books, games and projects to survive the winter weather. Too bored to do any of it. Guess I'll just watch TV for 12 hours.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI have MANY issues with the #YouTube algorithm, but every now and then it just recommends me a #video of some random person with 6 views and 92 subscribers looking absolutely delighted as they review the #books they’re reading.
And I can’t stop smiling watching these videos every now and then because they are so human, earnest, and wonderfully awkward.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism
@newstik@social.heise.deFugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.
#Google #GoogleBooks
@Koffietje@social.linux.pizzaHi! I'm Koffietje! (Not very original, might change that later.)
Obviously, I'm a big fan of coffee! Generally black, over-steeped in a French press. But lately I've been messing around with the Moka pot.
I'm also big on Linux. My daily driver is Fedora, which seems to work incredibly well on my computers. I'm also curious about ARM & RISC-V, and have dipped my toes into BSD. Always trying to learn more, and currently I'm working on my Bash skills, tryi…
@vform@openbiblio.socialLibraries open their archives to train AI chatbots with books spanning centuries of human knowledge | Milwaukee Independent
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/libraries-open-archives-train-ai-chatbot…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialBecause it's populated by cheshire cats.
https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/115600269765129742
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAll people suggesting that Art.5 NATO offers stronger protection then Art. 42.7 TEU should check how the procedures work around Art.5, the NATO has to decide that it is applicable , there is no automatism or something like that, well described in this scenario.
https://www.amazon.nl/If-Russia-Wins-Alas…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeNerd #Suimi want you to read more books!
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJournal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
https://ift.tt/hq3XMO1
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/qUQMEax
@fgraver@hcommons.socialI stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLou Cannon, a veteran Washington Post reporter who wrote several influential biographies of Ronald Reagan, has died at 92 (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/books/lou-cannon-dead.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@cdarwin@c.imI can’t even begin to describe to you how fucking bonkers this is
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:65fexqbpdzpgjbrwzns7fx4v/post/3mams277jcc2y
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialNew Books Network: "The Digital Medieval Manuscript
Material Approaches to Digital Codicology" https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-digital-medieval-manuscript
@brian_gettler@mas.toI CANNOT WAIT for this book. Emilie is brilliant and her work has been an inspiration and beyond helpful as I try to write a very similar history but of Canada, rather than the US. Out next week!!!
Emilie Connolly, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (2025)
https://
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialDefunding the Dept of Education.
Calling colleges "a scam".
Denouncing #science.
Cutting public TV/radio.
Banning books.
Republicans advocate ignorance, denounce #education & push non-intellectual pursuits... because educated voters don't vote
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cookin’ on 3 Burners:
🎵 Cookin' the Books
#Cookinon3Burners
https://cookinon3burners.bandcamp.com/track/cookin-the-books
https://open.spotify.com/track/67QrgXO9huOqEsBGrrMPUM
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115510783495155340
One thing that, to my surprise, sells really quickly is old computer books from the 1980s (stuff like "Machine Programs for the Apple II").
I guess perhaps they're cheap to ship (in the US, the post office has a special low rate for packages with books or music) and nice small treats for people?
Regardless, it's a nice win, I free up space and get some pocket money, the books go to someone who will love and care for them. :)
@servelan@newsie.socialLibrarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.e8Sm.2_yyeD0RcKIp&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawO3A0FleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFLWkk2VVAzUXV6dkdNVTlHc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHomrXkbFaAhZN-lFybzSodSWNpEzQxLTOKKx8WIMRBZyeRJnR1o0O-tXP4DL_aem_PVGsuzi6zO-w1jEBMTJcqQ
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJournal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136311/journal-australian-catholic-historical-society
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNYT reporter John Carreyrou and five other writers sue xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity, accusing them of pirating their books to train AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/n
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialDefunding the Dept of Education.
Calling colleges "a scam".
Denouncing #science.
Cutting public TV/radio.
Banning books.
Republicans advocate ignorance, denounce #education & push non-intellectual pursuits... because educated voters don't vote
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialNew Books Network:
"The Digital Medieval Manuscript Material Approaches to Digital Codicology"
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-digital-medieval-manuscript
@cdarwin@c.im @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Cookin’ On 3 Burners:
🎵 Cookin’ The Books
#CookinOn3Burners
https://cookinon3burners.bandcamp.com/track/cookin-the-books
@relcfp@mastodon.socialBooks and Reading in Hispanic Queer Culture (2027 MLA Convention, 7-10 January, Los Angeles)
https://ift.tt/6cGNLMD
updated: Friday, January 23, 2026 - 4:17pmfull name / name of organization: Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialNew Books Network:
"Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles"
https://newbooksnetwork.com/information-literacy-and-critical-thinking
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deedit_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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
@cdarwin@c.imA London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires
Portland Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service
The clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm's founder,
Tim Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
And it has been busted once already for th…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJournal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
https://ift.tt/hRPw8fF
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/MD2vExL
@cdarwin@c.imProud to see UC Press books recognized across these best-of lists.
From pandemic response and climate history to teaching,
art, and the politics of equity,
these books reflect the kind of publishing we believe in:
books that challenge assumptions,
recover overlooked lives,
and bring complex ideas into public conversation.
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
