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One of the best books ever written about punk/straight edge. If you haven't read it already, put it on your list:
#GabrielKuhn

It might be cool to see this reading list as a @… -ish fedifeed
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online | Open Culture

A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online
Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he'd read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it's gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who'd never heard of him before.

The responses to this post below form a truly awesome list of recent #SF books! I have read and can highly recommend many of them, especially the books from Martha Wells, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie…
Another *series* I very much enjoyed was the 20 books of the “Amaranthe” universe from G.S. Jennsen… it’s a fun and rich series:

AMARANTHE UNIVERSE OVERVIEW — G. S. Jennsen

I don't want to live forever, I just want to live long enough to... (list in alphabetical order by verb):
- climb every mountain, hill, and cliff
- hug every pillow, plushie, and stuffed animal
- learn every language
- listen to every song, podcast, radio show, and sound effect
- meet every person, animal, and other living being
- play every video game, board game, sport, and musical instrument
- read every book, newspaper/magazine article, website, and social media post
- run every computer program
- sleep on every bed, couch, and futon
- swim in every lake, river, and other body of water
- view every painting, sculpture, photograph, map, and other work of art
- visit every city, landmark, historic site, and protected area
- watch every movie, TV show, video, and theater production
...that all shouldn't take too long, right?

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

alright yall im tryna decide what to read next, never read any of these before:
i have no mouth and i must scream
several short sentences about writing
house of leaves
no 44 (been on my list longest ajfkajd)
american psycho
one hundred years of solitude

i have a weird bug: https://godbolt.org/z/vo1qYed8c
doesn't compile for me on arm-none-eabi-gcc-15.1.0 (and probably also earlier versions) because the assembler complains: "Error: registers may not be the same" - line 64 in the godbolt output. godbolt does not complain however …

Compiler Explorer - C++ (ARM GCC 14.3.0 (unknown-eabi))
#define MALIGN(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) #define MROUND(x) (((uint32_t)(x)+3) & (~((uint32_t)3))) void mem_init(void *mem_pool, uint16_t mem_size, uint16_t mem_count, void **mem_head) { *mem_head = mem_pool; /* Store free mem_count after the list's next pointer at an 32-bit * aligned memory location to ensure atomic read/write (in ARM for now). */ *((uint16_t *)MROUND((uint8_t *)mem_pool + sizeof(mem_pool))) = mem_count; /* Initialize next pointers to form a free list, …

ENG (Deutsch unten):
Last year I started to read all books written by Jules Verne. As I'm half way through it now I'm looking for books to read afterwards. It should be some of the great ones. The ones you should have read before it's over. Or simply books I find interesting.
I already have a short list (see below) .. So... What else should be in this list? Pls make recommendations!
Boosts appreciated!
DEU:
Letztes Jahr habe ich angefangen alle Büc…

Just finished "Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas (I haven't yet read "The Hate U Give" but that's now high on my list of things to find). It's excellent, and in particular, an excellent treatise on positive masculinity in fiction form. It's not a super easy book to read emotionally, but is excellently written and deeply immersive. I don't have the perspective to know how it might land among teens like those it portrays, but I have a feeling it's true enough to life, and it held a lot of great wisdom for me.
CW for the book include murder, hard drugs, and parental abandonment.
I caught myself in a racist/classist habit of thought while reading that others night appreciate hearing about: early on I was mentally comparing it to "All my Rage" by Sabaa Tahir and wondering if/when we'd see the human cost of the drug dealing to the junkies, thinking that it would weaken the book not to include that angle. Why is that racist/classist? Because I'm always expecting books with hard drug dealers in them to show the ugly side of their business since it's been drilled into me that they're evil for the harm they cause, yet I never expect the same of characters who are bankers, financial analysts, health insurance claims adjudicators, police officers, etc. (Okay, maybe I do now look for that in police narratives). The point is, our society includes many people who as part of their jobs directly immiserate others, so why and I only concerned about that misery being brought up when it's drug dealers?
#AmReading

"Trump is furious with the WSJ owner, Rupert Murdoch, and threatening to “sue his ass off”. Oh please don’t, Mr President! His ass is 94 years old and incredibly wrinkled. Also, half of Britain’s political class still lives up it"
One shouldn't read Marina Hyde. It's a bad habit. But she is sometimes witty.

Behind the Blog: Chatbot 'Addiction' and a Reading List https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-chatbot-addiction-and-a-reading-list/

a good, but depressing read... this Australian scrubbed his blog reporting on the Columbia student protests before flying to the US, but they'd already saved the posts, possibly triggered by his ESTA application or him being on a list from a far-right pro-Israel org.
https://www.…

It’s opportunistic but I’m drunk so sod it: if you want to buy me a book for my birthday, here’s what I want to read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2A169UYO51WU0?ref_=wl_share

You are cordially invited to the #EFF Awards Ceremony in San Francisco on September 10! Read about the winners and how to claim your ticket - and join the mailing list.
https://www.eff.org/event/eff-awards-2025#

EFF Awards 2025
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