@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump backs push for Christian nationalism with lame Bible reading (Lisa Needham/Daily Kos)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/21/800024434/whitehouse/trump-backs-push-for-christian-nationalism-with-lame-bible-reading/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p26#a260422p26
@david@boles.xyzThe Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship: the moment the final sentence locks into place, the book begins its first death, because it has stopped being a living negotiation between you and the language and has become, instead, a fixed…
@ErikUden@mastodon.denow why would i want it to be
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"How Do We Make Reading Truly Accessible? A Conversation With Thomas Kahlisch"
https://blog.degruyter.com/how-do-we-make-reading-truly-accessible-a-conversation-with-thomas-kahlisch/
"Whether for pleasure o…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialSpent a really lazy day reading 📖 😊
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialI'm in an unhappy place with my reading these days. 😟📚
I feel impatient with many books and end up abandoning them.
At times like this I often reread what I think of as my "core authors", their voices familiar and well-loved.
About a decade ago I realised that I basically only need 7 particular albums, and two authors (complete works of), the rest are nice for a fling, but not strictly necessary.
Are other people like this too?
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgPrevented from reading (for fun) by having to read (for work) 😔 #academicChatter
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"
@janneke@todon.nlI'v been reading this term "AI Engineer" a lot lately.
Anyone have any idea what it could mean?
(e.g., has an artificial intelligence actually been realized yet? I cannot seem to find anything about it. How does one engineer (on) something that doesn't exist? "AI researcher" could possibly make some sense to me. Wouldn't an "AI Engineer" probably be some sort of philosopher or psycologist; I mean, how does one handle/coach/teach/steer…
@shriramk@mastodon.socialFor people who love an obscure museum, I commend the Museum of Anaesthesia in London. It's tiny, very nerdy, evinces great professional pride, and run by wonderful folks. Interestingly, one of the books on the museum reading shelf was "Fear".
https://anaesthetists.org/Home/Heritag
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Read the undocumented mems accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via IOkit HID.
https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer
saved 2026-02-20
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://aus.social/@onsman/116437404288633227
And here’s what will likely / historically be a more permanent URL:
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.socialA nicely crafted article worth reading in Vox that explains the conflict within management agencies related to the widespread practice of stocking non-native fishes. Spoiler: it's about money.
https://www.vox.com/climate/483175/fish-stocking-trout-wildlife-agencie…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toUpdated: Augmented reality for the blind - hardware and software combination https://blindza.com/camera_glasses/ by Jacob Kruger on The vOICe vision BCI.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump and other top Republicans will read passages in a marathon Bible event (Peter Smith/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bible-reading-conservative-christians-evangelicals-453a6a5abdfd757a97b6053b6da1dbed
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p12#a260421p12
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialOlha quem chegou. O "meu" mais recente catramolho. Banana for scale.
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineCan somebody please make a non-AI video where an adult needs to show their ID and take fingerprints every time they want to do adult things, like having a sip from a glass of wine, or starting their car, or reading a book?
(The goal is to point out to the "social media ban for children" crowd how we trust parents with *those* so why social media would be different)
@puhuri@mastodon.socialEsittäjän Edge Copilot for Business (tms.) näyttää kalvojen yläreunassa palkkia "This apperas to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI assistant". Onkohan pielessä:
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… lol in a parallal universe l could blame the font but l simply misread your post after reading other people moaning about AI.
In any case, thanks for making me think of my top ten tunes of all day.
@…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Reading Poetry Devotionally: How Poems Nurture our Spiritual Lives," taught by David Mahan. One of the enriching courses on offer at YDS Summer Study 2026, running online June 1-5. Open to all!
Learn more and register here: https://summerstudy.yale.edu/cla…
@darkrat@chaosfurs.socialSomething I can highly recomment:
Watching 90s #StarTrek and reading the usenet discussions about the show from around the episode(s) aired.
it's funny how literally all the same "this franchise sucks now" discussions that happen with nutrek today, already happened back then.
All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
Wait, wrong franchise...…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioReading
#antiaireadingclub
@cdarwin@c.imMegyn Kelly is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the possibility of insider tradiing
Megyn Kelly turned to X to address concerns about insider trading.
Kelly was responding to a CNN panel where Josh Rogin made an alarming statement:
that somebody shorted the oil market by hundreds of millions of dollars, exactly 20 minutes before Donald Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great.
@gwire@mastodon.socialOne thing that's frustrating reading about the shutdown of the UK PSTN phone system (which was supposed to be 3 months ago, but is now in 10 months) is there's no communication of progress statistically. Apparently 2.8 million still need to switch before Feb 2027?
(This isn't the switch to fibre - that has no deadline - it's the switch to providing voice lines over internet connections.)
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaAnother block of a web site. I have autoplay video and sound off. Started reading the article and they started playing... I don't care how good you are if you ignore my settings then I permanently ignore you.
@roland@devdilettante.com
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaLooking over DMing for the first time. Reading about Cairn; seems like a good place to start. I don't think I could do D&D right off the bat.
@frankel@mastodon.top @memeorandum@universeodon.com'If my people': Here's why the Bible passage Trump will read aloud is so potent and polarizing (Peter Smith/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-bible-reading-marathon-christian-evangelicals-307cba34a42e73ed2222ca36305c2637
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p101#a260421p101
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngJakoJako's artistic origin story[1]: Watching tutorials and reading books about modular synths in her downtime whilst working as a night nurse... :)
Still one of my fave tracks by her, deceptively simple layers of arpeggios, yet with the modulation and other subtle changes pressing all the right emotional buttons...
JakoJako - Amygdala (2022)
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 25 Jahren: Am 21. März 2001 kam es im Kernkraftwerk Enrico Fermi (Michigan, USA) während eines 24h Testlaufs eines Notdieselgenerators zu einer Überhitzung und anschließend zu einem kleinen Brand. Die drei anderen Notdieselgeneratoren blieben betriebsbereit.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialsometimes you can tell when something has been crossposted from buffer, absolutely no reading of the room
@mlncn@social.coopEssential reading for those inside and outside of #Minnesota looking to stop #ICE terrorizing immigrants and anybody else they choose.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI'm reading "Germania" by Simon Winder (fun read, definitely recommending it), I've reached the claim that the Baltic Sea "looks like a crusader praying on his knees" and now I can't unsee it.
#Baltic
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.scot/@bampot/116098530923007857
This is remarkably exciting reading 👀
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeI am reading "Baldwin: A Love Story" right now. It's huge but very good, and very enlightening on issues of race and color and sexuality and how individuals navigate a world with cultures built to oppress them and do the introspective and interpersonal work to think about and write about those cultures both creatively and truthfully. Huge recommend.
I'm reading the audiobook and the reader does a great Baldwin voice without making it feel like an artifical or shallow …
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialI made the mistake of asking Claude to suggest some updates to my steganography lecture and now I am stuck reading an inch of papers this weekend.
@fgraver@hcommons.social
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://kolektiva.social/@micchiato/116256727250020276
“Displaced from my home in northern Gaza, I sit reading reports of the Iran war as my little sister, 6, struggles to walk across the room. Two months into the ceasefire, an Israeli soldier shot …
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzalast night i dreampt that is was reading one of my posts, but it was all jibberish. i couldn't remember typing any of it, also i noticed, it contained the words "gwenridge recorder" i don't even know what a "gwenridge recorder" is. unfortunately i awoke before i had chance to search it up. i will do it later if i can be bothered. i made a note of it so i don't forget.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI started reading someone’s blog and then found a post that was pro-AI and just closed that tab and quit my browser to go bake bread instead.
@annsev@troet.cafeWorth reading:
"Trump Had No Plan B for Iran.
And it shows." TheAtlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war/686470/?utm_source=feed
@bourgwick@heads.social
@al3x@hachyderm.ioIf I haven't used any of them, what would you recommend as a first experience: OpenAI Codex or Anthropic Claude Code?
Most of my code is in Java, Go.
I intend to use the recommended one also to create a macOS and an iOS app.
I've been reading @… for long and still can't make this decision.
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialI'm a reading purist.
If you're listening to an audiobook, you're not really reading.
An e-book? Nah, that's not reading either.
A softcover book? How could that possibly count as reading?
Hardcover? Not reading.
Scrolls of vellum or papyrus? Hardly.
The only REAL reading is off stone tablets.
#joke
@hex@kolektiva.socialI would recommend reading the source material. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io"Rework is almost free so we shouldn’t make an effort to prevent incorrect work from happening."
Holy fuck, don't let these people
near any of my transportation, finance, identity, or healthcare infrastructure.
https://lobste.rs/s/syv21m/dangerously_skip_reading_code
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI was reading the most recent @… WIP Wednesday and saw:
There are 2 release blockers for v1.1 currently, down by 2 from last week.
If I read those two release bl…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot@… I was reading this article - https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/06/06/between-2008-an…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers.
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
saved 2019-08-25
@kctipton@mas.toOpinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialRE: https://floss.social/@soller/116429029395748738
To those reading the discussion, consider a cold beverage with it. 🥤
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euYouTube auto generating Bulgarian subtitles of me reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland mesmerises me like the stare of a boa constrictor ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSxtsCSSq8Y
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 51 Jahren: Am 22.03.1975 brach im #Kernkraftwerk Browns Ferry (Alabama, USA) ein #Feuer aus, als ein Arbeiter mit einer Kerze nach Luftlecks suchte u. eine provisorische Kabeldichtung in Brand setzte. Es entstanden erhebliche Schäden an der Reaktorsteuerungsverkabelung.
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialDid you know that if you assert something online, you and the people reading it can in fact check whether it’s supported?
@brian_gettler@mas.toI'm kicking off reading week with some actual reading: Wickwire's highly regarded At the Bridge (2019). I'm looking forward to discussing it with the brilliant group of grad students I have in this year's seminar towards the end of the month.
#histodons #anthropology
@servelan@newsie.socialI did not know that they made non-combustible Bibles.
Trump to release reading of scripture days after angering many Christians - POLITICO
https://archive.ph/FPWC2
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialYour weekend reading:
"We all know that our addiction to growth must stop because it is destroying the very foundations of our lives, but knowing that we must stop an addiction is one thing, and being able to do so is a different one. Capitalist growth is a complex and insidious dynamic that should be analysed through the lens of systems analysis and feedback in order to be addressed."
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
@jaygooby@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@jaygooby/116432027581463812
Next, I'm going to work on a VS Code sandbox profile that also locks down reading from everywhere except for the project's root and only the directories that VS Code needs to run, so extensions are blocked from …
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeAI uses unreasonable amount of energy which also includes my mental energy from reading comments from AI evangelists.
@zachleat@zachleat.comReading through a NYTimes article on the new 2026 USMNT World Cup kit designs. Noting that the design seems to give the men credit for the USWNT’s World Cup wins by placing 4 stars above the jersey crest, hmm…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7120620/2
@sean@scoat.esThere's a certain amount of Schadenfreude (in addition to the absolute terror it invokes) in reading about what Mythos can supposedly do, after having made a career of complaining about how literally all software (including my own, because of circumstance) is inadequate, for the past 15 years.
A real reckoning is coming for software that is “good enough" but also never-finished and horribly vulnerable, if Anthropic's model can really chain together a series of exploits lik…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineAmerica's demise foretold.
What if a sitting president became dangerously unstable? The 1965 novel Night of Camp David makes for uncanny reading today https://theconversation.com/what-if-a-
@hakona@im.alstadheim.noReading about the Maine Democratic primaries. First past the post is really messing up the political debate. Everything is about who can beat Susan Collins, the policies people want are a distant second consideration. It is how it is. Given that, I'd think the *one* question to ask candidates would be: where are you on electoral reform?
#USA
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialJust finished reading “A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived” and while it was a challenging read (I don’t know a lot about DNA other than what’s in pop-science), it was super interesting. Lots to think about and be amazed at.
@billbert@mastodon.socialLoons… #HeatedRivalry I’m reading GC and gotten to the heart-wrenching PLAYOFFS sequence. The wrenching is actually good. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this! 🤣
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI'm reading Brecht's "Life of Galileo" at the moment.
Substitute the Roman Catholic Church for the Trump regime, ReformUK, and the rest of that shower and you could be reading the news from 2026.
https://fediscience.org/@hausfath/116059370988950395
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThis article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialReading at the end of an article from a neuroscientist, expert in their field, author of dozens of papers, professor at a renowned university, that "the author used an AI-based tool to improve clarity and readability" makes me so sad..
Can the "AI" tool really improve what the author wrote in the first place, in a way that they couldn't have done themselves with their own brain?
If that was going to take too much time, is the "improvement" really worth using a resource-hungry and u…
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ieAfter reading the article from The Ditch in relation to the Greens’ Galway West by-election candidate Niall Murphy and due to my own loose affiliation through a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign that he is also involved in, I felt a statement must be made.
The Ditch have highlighted the shares he purchased in his employer, Cisco, a company that is directly partnered with the Israeli government and assists Israeli military operations in Gaza.
1/3
@Archivist@social.linux.pizzaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa why, why must the characters of the book I am reading discuss the book I want to read but cannot!?¿! I can't sequester a Japanese translator to get my fix of Hiroshi Mori
@tarah@infosec.exchangeIn defense of Reviewer 2.
Dear Reviewer 2: Reviewers 1 and 3 snarked uselessly. You, however, did a damn fine job giving me actionable changes, sight reading the missing recall stat from my own graph, pointing out what it meant to my theory, and making my work better. Thank you.
Love, someone going to the conference and who has a brand new peer-reviewed publication thanks to your "weak accept". I ain't proud; I'll take it.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAudible launches an "immersion reading" feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/audi
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAudible launches an "immersion reading" feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/audi
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialReally Impressed by this blog post describing the RSS reader Current for Mac https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/really-impressed-by-this-blog
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeThank you for expressing the argument eloquently, succinctly, and without aggression.
I confess, I often tire of reading information that's repetitive. My feelings go way beyond ennui when predictability is coupled with writing that's selfish, sloppy, and divisive. This wrong style of writing has become a norm for some of the people are right to be concerned.
I'm amongst the countless people who are, quietly, deeply concerned about the impact on Earth's resourc…
@brian_gettler@mas.toIf you have to take on the acting chair role, there are worse times to do so than reading work.
#academia
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeI dunno about you all, but I spent the long weekend reading.
Highly recommend both books for those looking for a different, less heard perspective on US colonialism, racism, and the for-profit prison and concentration camp systems.
They're fictional escapes from a nonfiction world that can feel too out of control, but they also fill you up with drive to change things and empower you for the fight ahead.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
@cdarwin@c.imImani Thompson, along with the New York City-based tech organizing coalition "Cypurr Collective",
is the host of "Break Up With Google".
Its purpose is to help attenders understand how to mitigate their vulnerability to surveillance through major tech services.
But it’s important for people to have fun while they do it, Thompson said
– hence the DJs playing until the wee hours of the morning.
“Learning to script a little at your local bar …
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfollowing jvns asking about good man pages, i have some thoughts about what i have liked and disliked when reading man pages, how i have tried to improve them, and guidelines i follow when writing them https://lobste.rs/c/chyw2a
perhaps that comment ought to be a blog post
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Epstein Regime -- Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio (Weekend Reading)
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/the-epstein-regime
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p130#a260218p130
@rmdes@mstdn.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Will Participate in a Marathon Bible Reading (Ruth Graham/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/trump-bible.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p12#a260418p12
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump to release reading of scripture days after angering many Christians (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/trump-scripture-angering-christians-00879747
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p101#a260417p101
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTexas Considers Required Reading List for Schools, Which Includes the Bible (Sarah Mervosh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/texas-considers-required-reading-list-for-schools-which-includes-the-bible.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p52#a260407p52
