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@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-04-26 23:01:56

nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/
I went to school with this guy.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-27 18:20:40

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here (CBS News)
cbsnews.com/news/read-the-full
memeorandum.com/260427/p63#a26

@pimterry@toot.cafe
2026-03-25 13:44:57

In case you want to understand your TLS clients in depth from Node.js, there's a new v2 release of read-tls-client-hello now live: github.com/httptoolkit/read-tl
Also now supported on

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-28 11:08:37

OK, folks, I've written yet another incomprehensible essay on the intricacies of implementing a software environment for the hardware of the deep future.
Read this only if you're incurably geeky, and, ideally, interested in #Lisp.
#PostScarcitySoftware

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-03-27 09:51:04

On Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - earth.org.uk/note-on-site-tech

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-02-28 20:35:34

Just finished "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas. In an unusual twist of fate, I had read "Concrete Rose" earlier, which gave me a rich backstory to relate things to. "The Hate U Give" is really good, but I found the resolution of King's arc slightly disappointing, even though the ending was strong. It's definitely not my place to judge Thomas' perspective here, but I do think that the book's broad popularity including among more liberal audiences probably stems at least in part from the way it allows a "the cops have issues but are ultimately-necessary/sometimes-positive" reading that undermines the strength of the core message.
In the end I like Concrete Rose better, but they're both great and I'll be putting Thomas' other books on my to-read list.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-03-27 14:16:20

Indeed.

Screenshot of a bluesky quote tweet and the quoted tweet:
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social

*A lifetime of reading Bruce Sterling at age 16. This prospect would
alarm me if I myself hadn't read a lifetime of JG Ballard, Harlan Ellison
and Wm Burroughs at age 16

quoted tweet:
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - 1d

when i finally read harry potter at 16 after a lifetime of reading diana wynne
jones, diane duane, terry pratchett, douglas adams, bruce sterling, avi, jean
craighead george, etc
i was l…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-04-27 04:38:16

@Houl@wetdry.worldTry as I may, but I can't help but to read your name as Hourly Floof:fox_tail_wag:⁠

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2026-04-27 12:10:30

Ordered this book when it came out last week, but had nothing to do on the plane ride to GodotCon so read it electronically.
We lived through it, but Adam painfully documents just how gross the entire chapter was.

@anildash@me.dm
2026-04-28 21:39:34

RE: zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/11648253
Kudos for the incredible parody of Mastodon culture here, well done! Seemed almost plausible on first read.

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-02-28 20:48:16

Favorite comment I read today:
"I don’t know why anyone trusts “the cloud”. It’s named after clouds for fucks sake, those things that are impermanent and shift and change and blow about in the breeze or break and cover you in rain and even with the best of human science are only reliably predictable a few days into the future."

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-04-28 12:45:28

I read 'Beyond Control and Compensation' Open Future openfuture.eu/blog/beyond-cont
'the question is not whether institutions should control their collections but whether it is legitimate to expect those who extract d…

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-03-27 08:56:21

It took a year but I’ve now read most of Brandon Sanderson‘s work. Dude has QUITE the output

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-03-27 20:25:31

Seeing an #acting #coaching client connecting with new material from the first ice cold read is really good. Excited to see them build the character and flesh out things from an already solid place.
#ActingCoach

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-04-28 01:10:13

@… ethernet.fm/

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-02-28 00:06:00

I just had to explain to the 13yo HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER. He disassembled the paper into individual pages! The articles spanned multiple pages, though...
#KidsTheseDays #WhyIsntItZooming?

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-04-28 02:01:27

Every time I see or hear or even read about RFK Jr I am reminded that Sirhan Sirhan is still alive.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-04-27 11:45:34

President Trump lashed out at Norah O'Donnell in a 60 Minutes interview after she read a portion of a manifesto left by the WHCD shooting suspect (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/04/trump-whi

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-04-28 15:04:03

Wigs: A Whig History
Whigs: A History in Wigs
While the first seems more likely to exist, I'd be more inclined to read the second.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-03-28 18:42:01

from my link log —
You should not run your mail server because mail is hard?
poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you
saved 2019-09-01

RE: mastodon.social/@gmh/116300655
PLEASE if you're an average iOS user like me, and not super geeky, you need to read the excellent thread below.
DO NOT UPGRADE to 26.4 if you can avoid it.

@stiefkind@mastodon.social
2026-05-27 15:43:59

CAD – Computer Aided Design – is nearly as old as computers itself. Read about the entire CAD history here: #techhistory

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2026-04-27 23:23:50

I have a similar cognitive response in these two different scenarios: reading the sciencey page at the dispensary that shows how awesome this strain is.
And reading the sciencey page about LLMs like the one below.
I read them with the full intention of understand said science. Then I get a few sentences in, and what looks like made up words start appearing. A few paragraphs in and I'm not sure it's English anymore.
But, hey they have graphs. And their dots are th…

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-02-28 11:16:18

Backspin Golf Podcast Presented By Inside Golf Magazine
Australia's most-read golf publication as voted by Australian golfers, featuring golf news, reviews, gear, instruction and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/backsp

Backspin Golf Podcast Presented By Inside Golf Magazine 
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2026-04-28 17:35:00

"A pastor’s heart in the YDS administration for three decades." Read our new story on Associate Dean Bill Goettler, who is retiring after 28 years on the Quad. divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04

Three people at a table.
‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-04-27 17:14:02

@… @… I just looked at the first subset (the ledger), and I think you’re right. I read the paper over breakfast, so that’s my excuse ;-)
I still think that the idea is clever (in every sense), and also typica…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-04-27 17:14:02

@… @… I just looked at the first subset (the ledger), and I think you’re right. I read the paper over breakfast, so that’s my excuse ;-)
I still think that the idea is clever (in every sense), and also typica…

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-04-28 14:35:05

Well worth a read - it's a clear case that renewables "can provide the same heartbeat of stability to the grid provided by the spinning turbines in coal and gas plants, without the emissions."
One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-04-28 14:35:05

Well worth a read - it's a clear case that renewables "can provide the same heartbeat of stability to the grid provided by the spinning turbines in coal and gas plants, without the emissions."
One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

@pgcd@mastodon.online
2026-02-28 19:26:27

I just realized 99% of my answers to "why do you do that" and "why do you like that" should be "because my father read sci-fi to me when I was five".

@roland@devdilettante.com
2026-02-28 13:56:44

I didn't vote for Carney.
mastodon.social/@TheManilaTime

@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2026-05-28 13:01:18

I have just read more about the Chancellor's latest pissing about with VAT and I've only just digested that the reduced rate will only apply to tickets for actual children, and not as I thought tickets for children's shows.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard and I would not be surprised if the cost of administering the scheme were greater than the total savings under it.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-27 13:35:37

'God Is Queer': See The Sexually Explicit Books James Talarico's Church Gives Kids (Leif Le Mahieu/The Daily Wire)
dailywire.com/news/this-book-i
memeorandum.com/260527/p46#a26

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2026-03-28 19:38:58

The Lindisfarne Gospels, quite a challenging read.

@wemic@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-26 09:13:49

Yet another cool link from "The Index" by @…
How Diamonds are Made?
diamond.jaydip.me/read/?utm_so

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2026-05-27 06:01:19

"Weekends become recovery periods rather than social spaces."
@… mendeddrum.org/@furrfu/1165943

@geant@mstdn.social
2026-03-27 13:26:40

30 years of connecting Czech science, research, and education. Happy anniversary, CESNET! 🎉
What started as an initiative by Czech universities and the Czech Academy of Sciences has grown into a national digital backbone spanning more than 5,600 kilometres and connecting hundreds of institutions across the Czech Republic.
Our CEO Lise Fuhr was honoured to join the celebration and offer GÉANT's congratulations in person.
🔗 Read the full recap:

CESNET30 banner
CESNET 30th anniversary concert - event image
CESNET 30th anniversary concert - event image
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl
2026-03-28 17:31:18

Now this is the kind of blogpost that's a joy to read: #mastodon #blog #SocialNetwork

@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2026-04-27 09:45:31

Wanting to get a rough idea of whether people have read either of literary modernism's so-called "unreadable" books.
#poll #Modernism #Joyce

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-04-28 06:14:57

Funny story, that Claude thing. But I hate when I read that „AI goes rogue“. A „misdemeanor“. Or it „apologized“ and „admitted“.
It’s a fricking text extruder that does random things because the algorithm thinks those words fit into its context. If you let such a program execute whatever command it spits out - that’s on you. If the cloud provider keeps backups on the same drive as the original data, that’s on them and you should try suing them.

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-28 13:11:11

Imagine being able to read a log while it's been written. On Windows this is science fiction.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-04-28 06:55:57

CFA: Elementary Pali: Intensive Summer Language Course at HDS
ift.tt/mSAKHNh
Call for Applications: 2026-2027 USHMM Hybrid Fellowships Application Now Open Elizabeth Anthony-…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@kunstbanause@nrw.social
2026-05-27 18:40:43

I was today's years old when I read the complete Terms of Service for a software for the first time.
Thank you, #antiX.
#antiXLinux

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-26 15:28:22

Honestly, read or watch whatever you want, just dont give people or companies money who use it for hate criming.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-04-25 11:50:25

Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a curated selection of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's choices cover
--Cybercrime has been very good to Cambodia,
--GrapheneOS is a triumph and a cautionary tale,
--Satellite signals can evade state information controls,
--AI tools create child exploitation risks,
--No excuse to delay creating a US Cyber Force
Happy reading!

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-28 15:26:52

Thank you to @… for this review of 'Habitations'. 🙏 It's always interesting how people home in on (sorry - couldn’t resist, given the themes 😜) very different aspects of what you've done; here, I was surprised to read chaos in the album being emphasised. The line between friction and familiarity seems thinner the longer you sit with a sound.

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-04-27 03:03:49

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gerry Read feat. Gregor:
🎵 Taking All My Clothes Off
#NowPlaying #GerryRead #Gregor
open.spotify.com/track/0a1BTzQ

@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2026-04-28 21:38:04

I don’t want you thinking a little longer, god damnit. How much energy did that waste? I just want some relevant results. #google #ai #pollution

A Google page with animated empty placeholders where search results should be, because instead of just showing me some results, it’s wasting power and water trying to “ai”-generate some bullshit I don’t want and won’t read because it’s almost always wrong.
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse
2026-04-26 03:43:43

Me when I read a silly-funny post: hee hee hee
Me when I read a mean-funny post: ho ho ha ha ha

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-04-28 03:15:31

But two of the criteria are completely subjective...
Read more 👉 #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-04-27 04:38:28

@… Try as I may, but I can't help but to read your name as Hourly Floof :fox_tail_wag:⁠

@joxean@mastodon.social
2026-03-25 17:44:52

I was intrigued and moving my head like "really?" when read the headline "Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS". Then, I started reading the article until the 3rd word: "Astronomist Avi Loeb". No need to read anything else.

Read the "settlement agreement" Trump reached with ... the Trump admin ... to give Trump ultimate control over this slush fund:
lawdork.com/p/document-read-tr

@piger@mastodon.social
2026-03-27 23:41:47

"because Linux to read text from the terminal uses this thing called readline that implements the Emacs key bindings, so in the terminal you can use ctrl-a to go to the beginning of the line, ctrl-e to the end, etc. Mac OS, the billionaire operating system uses these key bindings system wide, so in every fucking place you can write text, you can use the same shortcuts. Linux desktop for some goddamn reason instead uses... the Windows key bindings"

@3sframe@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-28 14:21:07

About to finish the Folklords comic. Really enjoyed the art. I'm really picky about the comics/graphic novels I read.
Went to their publisher's website and found a ton more comics in the style I like. I love when that happens!

@matthiasott@mastodon.social
2026-04-26 09:54:09

In case you missed it – and still need something to read this Sunday:
Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨
Curators.
Hope you like it! 🤗
newsletter.ownyourweb.site/arc

@ckent@urbanists.social
2026-02-28 04:40:23

This is your regular reminder that the "Utopia" ABC TV show is fiction.
It's time for Working Dog to come to terms with the myths that their script helps spread. The old reports did NOT show the VFT and HSR were unfeasible. Read the reports, like this guy youtube.com/clip/UgkxTG1NO5gU…

@isonno@mastodon.social
2026-03-28 04:47:40

@… Is your Chrome extension broken? Every attempt to save a page fails with "Couldn't save to Read Later"

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-03-20 11:31:55

This piece from the LRB blog, "It cannot read the human heart", about a (Chinese) plagiarism scandal, has total «Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote» energy, which is both particularly fitting and ironic in this situation.
lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/i

The friend who first told me about the scandal sent me a screenshot. One fearless author from among the accused had spoken out on social media:

If plagiarism is defined as having sentences flagged as identical by a checker, then so be it. But the software can only scan texts mechanically; it cannot read the human heart ... This so-called reader who exposed the identical texts, you are not a reader in any real sense. You just used the software, being too lazy to read anything yourself ... You a…
@datascience@genomic.social
2026-05-26 10:00:01

{tesseract} allows you to read text from images docs.ropensci.org/tesseract/ it can also be combined with {magick} ropen…

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-03-26 14:57:59

Our National Food Security is at Risk - by Rupert Read
rupertsreads.substack.com/p/ou

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-03-25 17:27:17

Best Non-Resident Library Cards That Still Work in 2026 (some are free) - What to Read Next #libraries

@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-25 16:55:25

Is brain rot real? Why don’t you read a paper about it and join us this upcoming Monday at Victory Cafe, 440 Booor St. W. here in Toronto for the monthly @… edition, where we will discuss it? The Luma listing has a link to the paper:

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-04-25 18:26:00

I've largely resolved to never watch a movie adapted from a book I read -- or at least not from a book I loved. I just watched the Netflix adaptation of "People We Meet on Vacation" because I thought the book was enjoyable but not spectacular, and it turned out that the movie had largely the same deficiencies that the book had [in my assessment].
But now I'm curious: if someone watched the movie* without already having read the book, how would it seem to them?

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-03-26 13:41:14

I’ve proposed an Accessibility Law of Headlines:
adrianroselli.com/2026/03/acce
Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.
There. Now you don’t need to read it (my post nor one making a BS claim…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-26 17:20:31

Read White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman Cole Allen's full anti-Trump manifesto (New York Post)
nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/
memeorandum.com/260426/p53#a26

@opencommit@fosstodon.org
2026-03-28 10:15:13

We’re pleased to share that OpenCommit is now officially sponsored by UptimeRobot.
UptimeRobot is a well-known EU based monitoring service which has graciously provided sponsored uptime monitoring and a customer facing status page for OpenCommit.
Check out status.opencommit.eu
Read more …

@publicvoit@graz.social
2026-05-20 19:16:53

After reading about today's #Github #security incident, exposing thousands of internal repositories, I'd like to remind you of:
Read That Before You Trust Anything by #Microsoft Once Again

@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-26 06:31:58

I'm supposed to proof read a report today. But the author forgot to close the document, so I'm locked out from editing. Guess I'll be here a lot today. Now I'm thinking about what else needs my attention (a lot of things, should I have said - what I'm willing to do?)

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2026-05-26 22:04:53

RE: infosec.exchange/@jtk/11561943
I made a final update to the draft. Read the criticism section for more, but this should tell you all you really need to know:
"The author(s) have decided to forgo further work on this document. …

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-21 15:59:28

Jets GM: Don't misread nixed visit with DE Bailey espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/485513

@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26 16:42:16

I hadn't heard of the winner of the #Utah #UT01 congressional district before. I went to his website, read his positions, and I get it. Why comprise on anything in the Democratic district we actually live in (instead of what we'd so long been gerrymandered into)?

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2026-04-26 20:12:30

Finally got around to liberate one of my Kindle ereaders with the guides from kindlemodding.org
Easy enough to do. Will load my liberated ebooks on it tomorrow
/cx @…

A kindle ereader showing a screen with small font script. Looks a bit scrambled and misaligned. In bold "Winterbreak" can be read in between the smaller text.
Kindle ebook reader restarting and showing text on the screen advising the user to wait for reboot
Kindle ebook reader in the process of installing a software package. A big parcel can be seen in the middle of the screen. Some smaller text on the top.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-16 15:55:42

Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others (Emily Mullin/Wired)
wired.com/story/this-beanie-is

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2026-03-28 08:24:45

Many articles in The Guardian (online version) can be listened to as well as read. Such a welcome feature for those of us with eyesight problems!
#theguardian

@drbruced@aus.social
2026-03-26 08:29:03

RE: aus.social/@redezem/1162926135
This is a good read. A decent tl;dr is this quote: the global strategic reserve of oil appears to be as much of a strategic reserve as my strategic reserve of whiskey: Impressive in theory, only lasts a month i…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-05-26 20:58:48

RE: discuss.systems/@ricci/1166411
I’m not about to read a 43k-word blog post…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-26 15:29:45

However I reserve the right to call you names if you read shit like Ayn Rand or racist drivel from she who must not be named.

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-03-28 01:41:36

The Fargo, ND, police department had obtained warrants for her arrest for bank fraud.
Read the full article: Wrongful Conviction, Qualified Immunity, and the Cost of Being Forgotten
#Innocence

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-05-25 09:51:03

From the Inbox (and Outbox) 2008, 2009 - Read emails and queries from, and discussions with, readers of Earth Notes (2008--2009). - earth.org.uk/from-the-inbox-1.

@joxean@mastodon.social
2026-05-26 18:54:28

I would rather use a ouija and read my horoscope better than trusting google's search AI view results.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-28 17:31:15

Read President Trump's statement on Iran in full (Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/iran-us-tru
memeorandum.com/260228/p44#a26

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-04-26 11:42:01

from my link log —
DNS problems with conntrack and Kubernetes.
blog.codacy.com/dns-hell-in-ku
saved 2020-08-14

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-03-26 01:27:21

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in philadelphia, concluding 3 nights at the spectrum, an up/down show with a fun debut. spring ’86, show #6.
soundboard: archive.org/details/gd86-03-25
audience:

Grateful Dead backstage pass, March 25, 1986 with Liberty Bell and Grateful Dead in text that can be read upside down as well
@piger@mastodon.social
2026-03-26 17:15:14

In a conversation someone asked me if it wouldn’t be great if AI could just generate stories/movies/tv-shows etc and my first reaction was to tell the story of that time I ate too much ice cream, but then I thought the most obvious thing possible: comic books.
If you like Marvel, especially super heroes from the golden age, you have so much to read that I don’t think you have enough time in your life to read them all.
But… how many really good stories? Eh, not many. Like, really re…

RE: universeodon.com/@SrRochardBun
Yup, read fucking EVERYTHING, particularly anarchist critiques of Marxism and communism. I say that *as* a Marxist communist myself.
Here's one of my faves:

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-04-26 05:29:01

@… - I like that elephant image on your profile page!!
I recently read something recently about a Mughal emperor who paraded his several wives about, each on a different elephant.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-04-18 06:33:11

Wouldn't Read About It
Country slickers Lottie and Cameron sharing yarns you wouldn't read about...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/wouldn

Wouldn't Read About It   
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-04-24 20:11:03

A Singapore man has been arrested and may face seven years in jail for allegedly leaking The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender after accessing a media server (Calista Wong/The Straits Times)
straitstimes.com/singapore/man

@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2026-05-21 20:11:29

Interesting take on the Granta / Commonwealth Prize GenAI controversy.
#AI GenAI

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-03-28 02:50:53

My guess is that any lawsuit against any involved agency will be thrown out because of qualified immunity, that legal fiction that makes it so difficult to sue cops.
Read more 👉 #Innocence

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-05-24 15:42:26
Content warning: Minor spoilers for "A Psalm for the Wild-Built"

Just finished "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers. Overall it's good but I also have some Thoughts.
First, it was very pleasant to finally read some non-trite utopian solarpunk after having read stuff like Octavia Butler recently. Both hope and despair can be poisonous on their own IMO, so getting some balance in is nice. It's definitely a very valuable thing to be able to lay out an actually desirable and in many ways imaginable future given our grim present. Chambers is no LeGuin though. I'll probably be reading more of her work and maybe she fleshes out these ideas elsewhere, but at least in this book there is no focus on either how the transition to a better society could happen nor on how the better society holds up in the face of adverse events and inclinations. Compare LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" or N. K. Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and it feels like there's something important missing from Chambers' portrait of a future society. Of course, maybe the point is to make a cozy book, in which case fine, there's certainly a place for such things, and I can look for deeper inspiration elsewhere.
The second big thought I had was that Chambers' worldview seems not well-informed by certain indigenous perspectives, and this creates some contradictions. For example, (minor spoilers) when Dex enters the wilderness there's a whole bit about understanding humankind's place in nature and how human settlements are what we're used to but they're only a brief interruption of the vast untouched wilderness. Along the same lines, much of the world is intentionally left untouched by humans as a way to keep it pristine and natural. Later however, a character makes the point that humans *are* animals. The indigenous perspective that I appreciate would agree with that, and would further question the value in distinguishing between human influence on ecosystems and influences that others have. More sharply, one might observe that there's a bigger difference between how different kinds of humans relate to and influence their environments than between how less-disruptive humans and various animals do the same: the strip-mine-operator vs. migrant tribesperson impact difference is probably much greater than the migrant tribesperson vs. beaver gap, for example. Rather than talking about limiting human disruption, then, as if all human-environment interactions are disruptive and must be minimized, we could/should be talking about how to create human societies that have beneficial relationships with their environments and acknowledging that we actually have many positive examples of that, both historical and contemporary. Chambers' utopia is a "humans dominate nature but restrain themselves so that their disruptions are minimal and thus nature can thrive" vision, but what I'd even more like to see would be a "humans study old ways and make new ones so that they can interact positively with ecosystems again" vision, including some of "here are the places that sometimes breaks down but also the patterns and institutions that ensure repair of those breakdowns and thus long-term sustainability."
Final big thought: Chambers' utopia is too homogenous for my tastes. Of course it's hard enough and valuable work dreaming up and sharing any utopia and Chambers' transcends triteness in a number of ways, so this criticism is a bit rude. But the single shared religion, lack of mention of conflicts around shared decisions, especially historical society-defining ones, and nagging questions like "what about the people indigenous to the now-uninhabited lands?" and "what about the indigenous peoples who weren't part of the factory-building societies?" leave me wishing for more nuance in this direction.
All in all: a good book, and I'm criticizing out of a place of appreciation, not scorn. I've got there sequel out from the library as well and will probably detour to a few other books but get to it pretty soon.
Sadly I don't remember who, but I got this one because of a recommendation on here, so thanks if you're someone who recommended it!
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@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2026-05-26 18:11:26

After a young adulthood filled with activism, adventure, and divinity school, Jon Heinly ’17 M.Div. now leads fundraising for the Lancaster, Pa., public library while becoming an award-winning storyteller.
Read our new piece about this inspiring alum!

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@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2026-03-26 17:31:28

Melissa Matthes '09 M.Div. is a professor at a school very different from her divinity alma mater. But in teaching cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy she finds a similar sense of mission and purpose.
Read Ray Waddle's new profile.

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@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-23 18:55:52

I read 'The Camp of the Saints.' Here's why it's relevant (Jamie Sarkonak/National Post)
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@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-03-28 01:41:36

The Fargo, ND, police department had obtained warrants for her arrest for bank fraud.
Read the full article: Wrongful Conviction, Qualified Immunity, and the Cost of Being Forgotten
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@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-03-28 02:50:53

My guess is that any lawsuit against any involved agency will be thrown out because of qualified immunity, that legal fiction that makes it so difficult to sue cops.
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