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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-07-22 10:21:15

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

"Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green is a 2025 non-fiction book everyone should read.
Tuberculosis kills more people each year, once again, than any other disease. Now that
John was a chaplain at a children's hospital before he became famous, after he and his brother Hank Green invented vlogging. This is his second non-fiction book. Everything he writes is GREAT.
#BookRecommendations

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 11:28:03
Content warning: multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

As with covid, you don't want to give TB the chance to evolve, either. There already is a multiple-drug-resistant strand of TB (or more than one, probably - I'm not up on the details). I remember reading a book about it, Tracy Kidder's book about Dr Paul Farmer.
#tuberculosis #MDRTB #books

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-09 18:34:25

Hi #Bookstodon!
What’s a book that shaped your life? I’ll start, “Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice.” Now it’s your turn, reply with yours!
Book link: theanarchistlibrary.or…

A person wearing a brown hat and black shirt holds a book titled "Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice." They have a neutral expression, sitting on a green sofa.
Book cover of "Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice" by Rudolf Rocker. Features a smokestack labeled "Revolution" and muted tones.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2025-08-09 11:34:15

Yay!!! #book #drystonewall #ALifeRebuilt @…

A left hand holding a book in front of a garden. The garden is mostly meadow and grass and small cobble stone wall. The book is "Drystone - A life Rebuilt" from Kristie De Garis.
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 14:58:24

Just found this #book of stories based on #TheStand by #StephenKing. Now seems a good time to read about the end of the world as we know it.

Cover of the book "The end of the world as we know it" ISBN 9781399738675
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
2025-10-14 17:45:31

„Some People Need Killing“ von Patricia Evangelista, Journalistin. Ihr Buch wurde vom "Time Magazine" zum Sachbuch des Jahres gekürt.
#PatriciaEvangelista #book #FBM25
Philippinen prä…

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-10-09 14:05:06

5 - I went to Brooklyn’s #Book Festival last month and it was FULL.
So many people even at the very end of the day - people buying books, people walking around and sitting down in any spot they could find in the park to start reading what they got.
I heard multiple vendors talking to each other about how they didn’t bring enough stock to meet demand that day - in fact I couldn’t buy anything from multiple vendors I wanted to support because they had so few books left, and sold out of the ones I was interested in.
#NYC #reading

@Billybobbell@twit.social
2025-10-04 11:08:23

"History does not belong only to the past: it is still burning."
Excellent #book about #cameroon and the brutal end of empire.
Check out this book on Goodreads: The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-10-02 05:59:37

A #fraud you may or may not have heard about. Target: book #authors. A company is so happy to promote your #book, they guarantee, in a professional contract, that they will sell 100k volumes of your book, an…

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-08-05 07:31:18

Is anyone familiar with The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher? I picked one up at a book swap, by total fluke the first in the series, and so far it's actually quite good. Given the premise I wasn't sure which way it would go.
This was an emergency book as I'd left my *actual* book in my work bag: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, which I'm really enjoying #books

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-13 23:17:05

Hate to bring up HP but no other book has given me as close a feeling as when I read HP. Truly a joy to read with the world feeling both real and magical.
#books #fantasy

the cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath. a red cover with a red dragon head kind of covered in feathers.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-26 23:27:45

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Book of Love:
🎵 Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
#BookofLove
cursesforever.bandcamp.com/tra
open.spotify.com/track/53yTfRN

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-10 13:05:46

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books

A black paperback book on a wood table with an image of the cloud of the Challenger explosion, at the top the title Normak Accidents, a red bar white white letters across the middle says Living with High-Risk Technologies, and the author’s name Charles Perrow
@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-09-26 16:58:37

This week I tell a story of reading a book that cast an entangling spell.
#bookstodon
salrandolph.substack.com/p/mas

@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange
2025-08-02 01:15:43

Excerpt from a poem I found in a book I picked up for free at an estate sale. The cover has coffee rings on it; I like thinking of this book as someone’s constant companion. #bookstodon (excerpt from ‘A Feather for Voltaire’ by Jorie Graham)

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-08-23 04:15:04
Content warning: CSA

#readThisBook #bookstodon
I’ve been reading since 1955. Countless times I’ve dropped a book for various reasons. But this is the first book I’ve wanted to not read. It’s painful af. It’s Alan Davies’ autobiography, Just Ignore Him. He’s a British actor & comedian. His writing is phenomena…

@groupnebula563@mastodon.social
2025-10-06 03:58:02

I've just started reading "Tuesdays with Morrie", and I have to say, it is an amazing book so far, one I think everyone ought to read. Pick up a copy from your local bookstore or library and give it a read, I promise you'll like it!
#Bookstodon
@…

@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-08-29 14:22:07

"The Wager-a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder", by David Grann. You get exactly the history lesson you expect: the hardship of life at sea in the 18th century, the lack of medical understanding, and the collapse of civil behaviour under life-threatening situations. And the incredible survival of some of the crew, and the following courtmarshall.
#book

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-09-30 11:28:40

Great meet the author event tonight with Frank Bongiorno in conversation with Virginia Haussegger about her new book (launched tonight) *Unfinished Revolution*. Elizabeth Reid was there too!
#Books #History #Politics

Whiteboard depiction of the event
Frank, Virginia, Elizabeth, Mark
@pre@boing.world
2025-07-24 18:48:23
Content warning: "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor

Read "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, book one of the Quantum Earth series in which some college students figure out how to make a portal to parallell Earths just in time for their Earth Prime to suffer a supervolcano.
Taylor is pretty good at this stuff, loved his Bobiverse books.
Story was always progressing, even if it sometimes seemed to progress too slowly. Everyone's hip with all the literature so are comparing their situation to movies and TV shows all the time. Realistic cat-herding difficulties as they try and save as many people as they can and slowly realize that none of them will be going home and their home is doomed.

Looking forward to the next one.
#reading #books #scifi

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-10-07 18:54:02

Phew finally managed to track down a copy of “Enshittification” by @…
Was weirdly hard to find it in NYC today! I tried multiple bookstores and had to wonder around multiple floors of the Union Sq. Barnes and Noble to find a sole copy tucked away on a sociology shelf.
Not sure if I’m just too early, since I was looking around 1 pm on the day the book officially released, or if the bookstores are sleeping on it.
In either case - I have it and I’m delighted to be reading it!!
#books #tech #enshittification

@TFG@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-03 15:43:30

Finished #reading Jules Vernes "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" (Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine // Die Leiden eines Chinesen in China) today.
I liked every book of JV I've read. But this was the first one literally made me laugh. Was a lot of fun. Poor Soun.
#books

@jake4480@c.im
2025-07-27 02:28:22

Found the Cosmos book from 1980 (made about the show) at thrift for a couple bucks, this thing is incredible.
#CarlSagan #Cosmos #bookstodon #books

The cover of the Cosmos book- stars and a galaxy, the title, and Sagan's name
Inside the Cosmos book, images of planets and whatnot
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-29 01:32:40

I love Mortal Engines and i love reading stories in that universe. If you like those perfect books you will also enjoy this. Not on the same level as the OG series.
#books #reading

cover of the book Thunder City by Philip Reeve
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-07-28 14:17:36

In 'The vegetarian', by Han Kang, a bloody dream leads a young woman to stop eating meat. This leads to a series of social, personal and mental issues. Intense, and maybe difficult to understand without having a Korean background. A gripping story in three parts.
#book #goodread

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-08-01 18:17:00

I've just finished Lissa Evans' Small Bomb at Dimperley. I love her #books: they're well written often quite humorous easy reads with great characters.
Next up, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, followed by The Place of Tides by James Rebanks. That one's for a book group run by a local bookshop. I'm trying it for the first time in September.
Also picked…

@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01 01:14:48

Brownies to celebrate book release day! Good thing I'm better at writing than knitting socks. Now I just need to find a magic pen that would let me write fascism away. #bookstodon

A bite of brownie with a badly knitted sock in the background
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-22 13:56:38

JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell
(... nice to see this classic book get some attention!)
#books

@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-08-25 12:12:05

"Chaise Longue" describes the unconventional, alcohol and drugs-fueled early life of Baxter Dury.
Entertaining, funny, sad and chaotic-not unlike his music.
#book #goodread

@erk709@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-04 01:00:57

"Everybody in this book was failed people."
What if #MarySue wrote a #review of your #book?
#humor

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-24 14:46:34
Content warning: Tiago Forte on thinking about climate change

Good to see Tiago Forte talking about this. A lot of people read his stuff.
(He's a writer/teacher best known for the "Building a Second Brain" framework.)
"It was that summer when climate change stopped being an abstract concept and became viscerally personal for me. I realized that this wasn’t a one-time freak event—every summer we could expect deteriorating air quality from rampant wildfires. ...
"This convergence of physical heat, failing infrastructure, and human vulnerability isn’t just a temporary inconvenience. It’s a preview of the fundamental challenge that Jeff Goodell explores in The Heat Will Kill You First, a book that forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: all our routines for productive living and working are built on the assumption of a stable climate. It no longer makes sense for me to teach people how to build productive systems without taking into account the increasing instability of our wider environment."
#TiagoForte #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #environment #books #heatwave