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
The One Book That Made Me Take the Long View of the Future: God Emperor of Dune | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/07/the-one-book-that-made-me-take-the-long-view-of-the-future-god-emperor-of-dune/
Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
DigiBarn Books: A Decade of Research @ Xerox PARC: Scientific American Article on Xerox Alto, 1977 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-80/alto-article/index.html
I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html
I’m in this weird situation with the new book where, of the systems I’m planning to cover, the one I’m most familiar with is menuet. Imagine being in a position where, for any set of things, the most familiar item is menuet.
Once you’re well-established as a protagonist and have survived multiple books, you can blackmail the author into giving you plot armor, try it out
Bad idea of the day: write poems, one a day, each on the back side of a tile, cementing it into place after you write it. your bathroom wall becomes a hidden book. tell no one.
The Original Master of Ghost Stories | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-original-master-of-ghost-stories
Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/13/edward-snowden-reconsidered/
The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/secret-twist-political-philosophy-good-place/
A Python Script that Writes 800-page Children’s Books – Zach Whalen http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/a-python-script-that-writes-800-page-childrens-books/
Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more. - Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/10/3/17930990/anand-giridharadas-winners-take-all-book-changing-world-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-jeff-bezos
Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin’ BOOK and it’s super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.
Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style
Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter
Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning – Ex Urbe https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.