Matija :books: @moormaan
A book lover from Belgrade and Toronto. Leaving this instance as it's abandoned - you can find me at @moormaan and in a few more instances.
@deavmi Java guy here, sorry. You might wanna check out cybre.space.
@dvadell glad to hear it, thanks for letting me know! 🙂 He lived in a different time yet was a remarkable man, so I found this essay to be a refreshing mix of outdated yet timeless.
@Regina @Bookwitty I hope this instance gets some love from the maintainers - I'm really enjoying it, and it's among the best-styled ones out there! I don't understand this fad with dark themes...
@dvadell never used them and I don't like the idea. I prefer to maintain some semblance of autonomy in the face of growing automation, gamification, recommendification, and other -cations. Also, my to-read list is long enough without more recommendations from our robot overlords, as Sam Harris would put it, thank you very much 😁
@dvadell same here. I do a lot of research these days before I actually get into a book (Goodreads is the best for this), as I really dislike abandoning them. But I've learned that that too is sometimes the best thing to do.
@dvadell ...that's why I usually read close to ten books at a time, and some of them take me close to a year or sometimes even more to finish. If I really like a book though, I usually stop all others until that on is read.
Of essays, I enjoyed The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell a lot. Possibly a few others, but this one comes to my mind.
@dvadell ditto for poetry. 1 poem in 752 will make me go "wow", and I go blank for the rest.
I like novels too, mostly SciFi and fantastical stories, but not exclusively. I haven't read a "real life" novel in a while. Unbearable Lightness Of Being is one of my favourites in this category.
I'm a programmer so I read a lot of software related books, and I'm also interested in science, psychology and philosophy of the mind.
I'm also slow to finish a book and quick to start a new one 🙂
@dvadell what do you like to read about?
Did you know that the word robot was coined in 1921? http://bit.ly/2A05W5Z
Very proud of this new #webarchiving partnership with the Freedom of the Press Foundation and well impressed by their effort already to thwart historical revisionist capitalists with digipres 💪 https://freedom.press/news/archiving-alternative-press-threatened-wealthy-buyers/
My review of Naomi Klein's book No Logo.
https://www.librarything.com/work/8244/reviews/150665169
Sad day indeed:
File770: http://file770.com/?p=40158
Reading A Wizard of #Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan were highly influential esxperiences when I was a teenager. "Who knew that fantasy could be like *this*"
David Mitchell on Wizard of Earthsea: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/david-mitchell-wizard-of-earthsea-tolkien-george-rr-martin
While I'm inventing conspiracy theory origins for recent technologies, here's another one:
Bitcoin was invented by an unknown person pseudonamed "Satoshi Nakamoto". Before people used their spare computing time to mine bitcoins, one of the big things they did with spare compute was to run the SETI@Home client, helping to search for extraterrestrials. Who might have a vested interest in redirecting resources away from the search for extraterrestrials? Is "Satoshi Nakamoto" really a /person/?
"Meet Mastodon" by @webinista https://webinista.com/updates/meet-mastodon/
Fantastic, no-nonsense introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse. Lots of good advice on privacy, security, and how to choose your instance.
Humble Book Bundle: Python by Packt> https://tinyurl.com/ydf3ss2e
@kensanata @helena I have one kid, and another on the way - I fear not having time to read, but at least I know someone will :).
Ted Chiang: Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
@panoramix
Didn't know about that feature, I'll check mine tomorrow!
@panoramix
Now you just have to read a three-page pamphlet on the beach, and you can say you read 20,000 pages near the sea. Also, how did you get that calculation done?
Hey looks like today there'll be 1 million Mastodon accounts! :D