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@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

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-08-21 21:29:24

2% of Americans with a child under 9 years old say that they read with their child.
#reading #children #education

@paulusm@scholar.social
2025-06-19 12:57:56

#attention #reading

@outer@mas.to
2025-07-09 16:20:17

@…
This cartoon is from Tom Gauld's book: Revenge of the Librarians
copyright 2022
Get ALL his books. Read them. ALL of them are the best one.
#Reading

A comic by Tom Gauld: Dracula has kidnapped a maiden. She's glad to stay in his library. 4 panels: 1. Evening landscape, with a carpathian castle, mountains and a big, full moon. Vampire: NOW THAT YOU ARE MY BRIDE, YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS CASTLE! Maiden: Wow! Your library is amazing! -- 2. Silhouette of vampire, woman is pulling a book from a huge bookcase. Vampire: BEYOND THE CASTLE IS A HIGH WALL WITH NO GATE, AND BEYOND THAT IS A DEEP, DARK FOREST WITH NO PATH. Maiden: I suppose it'…
@andycarolan@social.lol
2025-07-15 17:33:58

Hey Apple users... do you use the native Apple Reading List in Safari?
#Apple #ReadingList
Yes
No
I use something else…

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-05-29 20:32:21

A book is always better with a reading buddy.
#Reading #CatsOfMastadon

@glauber@writing.exchange
2025-06-27 22:07:46

I like this so much!
I'm sorry i finished reading it.
#reading #books

Cover of the book The Last Unicorn, by Peter Beagle
@pre@boing.world
2025-06-15 13:52:55

Read "What went wrong with capitalism" by Ruchir Sharma.
A mildly interesting description of the major events in world an US economics in the last 50 years. Might
be a fair summary for anyone who didn't live through it or has a poor memory.
In short he thinks what went wrong was government bailing out failure leading to massive debts and increa
sed inequality.
Governments took over all the things instead of letting capitalism sort them out, he reckons, and wheneve
r a big industry or company fails you just get socialism for the rich and a bail-out from new printed money.
Easy cheap money, constant bail-outs, government intervention, leading to zombie companies racking up every larger debt to exist, billionaires who can't fail due to government support, and a stock market that's up-only bringing a flood of inefficiently-allocated capital.
Is he right? I mean, maybe, sort of. But when an industry really can't be allowed to fail, say water supply and waterway management, allowing private capital to extract maximum resources from it isn't the best method to manage it in the first place. No wonder they need bail-outs. Capitalism fails here because capitalism isn't the right solution here. We need publicly owned national services, not robber barons without
bailouts.
So, you know, half right. Perhaps these are some of the reasons why capitalism fails, but also we shouldn't even be trying to apply capitalism to every single thing in the first place.
#reading #capitalism #economics #RuchirSharma

@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social
2025-07-31 07:52:06

Kids these days...
#books #reading #Internet #cartoon

@tgpo@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-26 15:23:28

Finished #reading The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril #book for the 3rd time. I love the old #noir #detective

Cover for the book The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel. A man with a satchel (likely filled with records) run past several people with guns, 2 cats, and a double decker bus on top of a vinyl record.
@AnnaKukka@wien.rocks
2025-05-28 06:35:09

im Tram
#photography #monochrome #newspaper #reading