On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Stardrifter - Motherload https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/13/motherload.html #freeculture #bookclub

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Chapter 5 to Chapter 6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/06/seeds-3.html #freeculture #bookclub

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Chapter 4 to Chapter 4.5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/30/seeds-2.html #freeculture #bookclub

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Prologue to Chapter 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/23/seeds.html #freeculture #bookclub

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Jathia’s Wager https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/16/jathia.html #freeculture #bookclub

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club - Orang-U https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/09/orangu.html #freeculture #bookclub

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/02/freeculture.html #freeculture #bookclub

Time to write a RISC-V emulator I guess, https://book.rvemu.app/

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Victor Séjour’s Le Mulâtre https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/23/mulaitre.html #books #literature #blackhistorymonth #translation #french #announcement

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: The Barnes & Noble “Diverse Covers” Thing https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/09/afam-lit.html #books #diversity #blackhistorymonth #publicdomain #readinglist

I used to write poems, but I stopped. Now I want to make a book filled with poems for my gf. I got 2 months, wish me luck

Random link from the archives: https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/ originally archived Tue Feb 5 07:39:06 EST 2019

Bad idea of the day: whenever somebody talks about Green Book, pretend you think they’re talking about Green Room

for somebody with no interest in actually making movies, I sure do read a lot of books about how to write screenplays

Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/space-cartoons-to-space-psychedelia-how-sci-fi-book-covers-evolved/263952/

Book Review: Inventing The Future | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/18/book-review-inventing-the-future/

How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy

Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf

Committee for Supporting the Booking of Chapo Trap House on Joe Rogan

Dead Precedents by Roy Christopher review: how hip-hop and cyberpunk hijacked culture | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/17/dead-precedents-how-hip-hop-defines-future-roy-christopher-review-cyberpunk

An Interview with Nick Harkaway: Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-interview-with-nick-harkaway-algorithmic-futures-literary-fractals-and-mimetic-immortality/

The Man Who Questioned Everything | by Lynn Hunt | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/07/diderot-man-who-questioned-everything/

Update: if you buy the paperback version of my book, now you’ll be able to get the ebook for free. (Dunno why anybody would want that.) Also, the ebook now has wikipedia links for various terms via X-Ray, in case you didn’t know who Thad Starner was or something.

Things Found in Books | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/thingsfoundinbooks/pool/

The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/

Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/silicon-valleys-bonfire-of-the-vainglorious

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

The Soviet Matrix: On the Strugatsky Brothers’ “The Doomed City” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-soviet-matrix-on-the-strugatsky-brothers-the-doomed-city

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On “The Human Reimagined” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/posthumanism-for-regular-humans-trapped-in-an-inhuman-world-on-the-human-reimagined/

Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/

Today in bot food: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/british-librarys-collection-of-obscene-writing-goes-online

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Don’t expect too much, it’s rather basic, but already enough to read at least non technical books.

Next year’s hit isekai: ‘In Another World with My Copy of Ryan North’s New Book’

Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/Spells-21st-Century-Occult-Poetry-review

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/

Loper OS » The Book http://www.loper-os.org/?p=13

Functional programming books overview http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/#sec12

fogus: Some Lisp books (and then some) http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/25/some-lisp-books-and-then-some/

Erik Kwakkel • Six books, one binding http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/74300240443/six-books-one-binding-heres-something-special

We can try to define intellectual constructs as having ‘nothing but essence’ but maybe we should take a page out of Guy Debord’s book and say they are ‘nothing but appearance’. They can appear in contradictory ways because there’s no underlying structure.

I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.

Towards the Future Book https://kottke.org/18/12/towards-the-future-book

GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mark-fishers-k-punk-and-the-futures-that-have-never-arrived

Book Club 14: Fandom Unbound - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxuDFWtJwY

Generated Book Gallery – 60212: INTERACTIVITY & COMPUTATION http://cmuems.com/2018/60212f/deliverables/7-due-11-16/generated-book-gallery/

Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/

NaNoGenMo/book.md at master · JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo · GitHub https://github.com/JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo/blob/master/2018/SherlockShuffle/output/book.md