On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Only One https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/23/only-one.html #freeculture #bookclub
Download Over 900 eBooks of Classics Free from StandardEbooks
If you’re interested in doing some reading of the classics, you may appreciate the Standard Ebooks project, which offers free high quality ebooks that are well-formatted, proofread, and professionally designed using style manuals. Standard Ebooks focuses on books that are in the public domain and without copyright restrictions, which is how they’re able to offer … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/21/dow … ⌘ Read more
Download Over 900 eBooks of Classics Free from StandardEbooks
If you’re interested in doing some reading of the classics, you may appreciate the Standard Ebooks project, which offers free high quality ebooks that are well-formatted, proofread, and professionally designed using style manuals. Standard Ebooks focuses on books that are in the public domain and without copyright restrictions, which is how they’re able to offer … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/21/dow … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/16/vessel-offering-4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/09/vessel-offering-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
Thematic Book Series: Heating People, not Spaces
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/02/vessel-offering-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/25/vessel-offering-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Homestuck, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/18/homestuck-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Homestuck, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/11/homestuck-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Homestuck, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/04/homestuck-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Duelyst https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/28/duelyst.html #freeculture #bookclub
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books books and courses
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sugar the Robot, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/21/roboteers-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sugar the Robot, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/14/roboteers-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — ½ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/07/half.html #freeculture #bookclub
Thematic Book Series: How to Downsize a Transport Network?
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Full Bloom https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/30/full-bloom.html #freeculture #bookclub
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — C-Man https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/23/c-man.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/16/poles-5.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/09/poles-4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/02/poles-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/26/poles-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net because of course they have.
Emily Bender, a computational linguistic and excellent critic of this generative AI nonsense, uses an analogy of an oil spill to characterize what is happening as a result of generative AI. It’s polluting the world with false information, false images, false “academic” articles, false books. The companies that create this stuff are not cleaning up their misinformation spill; they’re letting the mess spread all over. It’s being used to commit crimes, and that’ll only get worse. Just like an out of control oil spill will destroy entire ecosystems.
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/19/poles-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Thematic Book Series: How to Build a Low-tech Internet?
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Project Ballad, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/12/project-ballad-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Project Ballad, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/05/project-ballad-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Project Ballad, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/29/project-ballad-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Archive of Our Own, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/22/ao3-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Archive of Our Own, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/15/ao3-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Important: Lunduke’s Substack shutting down soon! Get to Lunduke’s Locals!
This is absolutely critical: Very soon Lunduke.Substack.com will be shutting down! Replaced entirely by Lunduke.Locals.com! That is already where all of the nerdy articles, podcasts, videos, books, & comics are being published. Locals is where the nerdy party is at! ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Community: Over 21,000 Comments in 2023 (so far)!
While the totally, righteously nerdy articles, podcasts, videos, books, & comics from The Lunduke Journal are awesome… possibly my favorite part of The Lunduke Journal… is the community. On Lunduke.Locals.com we have created one of the most joyous and nerdy communities on planet Earth. A huge thank you to all of you lovely, radical nerds for making it such a fun place to hang out. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Someone Like You https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/08/glider-ink.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — kiki the nano bot https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/01/kiki.html #freeculture #bookclub
An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association “Property of People” through the Freedom of Information Act.
This document summarizes the possibilities for legal access to data from nine instant messaging services: iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp and Wickr. For each software, different judicial methods are explored, such as subpoena, search warrant, active collection of communications metadata (“Pen Register”) or connection data retention law (“18 USC§2703”). Here, in essence, is the information the FBI says it can retrieve:
Apple iMessage: basic subscriber data; in the case of an iPhone user, investigators may be able to get their hands on message content if the user uses iCloud to synchronize iMessage messages or to back up data on their phone.
Line: account data (image, username, e-mail address, phone number, Line ID, creation date, usage data, etc.); if the user has not activated end-to-end encryption, investigators can retrieve the texts of exchanges over a seven-day period, but not other data (audio, video, images, location).
Signal: date and time of account creation and date of last connection.
Telegram: IP address and phone number for investigations into confirmed terrorists, otherwise nothing.
Threema: cryptographic fingerprint of phone number and e-mail address, push service tokens if used, public key, account creation date, last connection date.
Viber: account data and IP address used to create the account; investigators can also access message history (date, time, source, destination).
WeChat: basic data such as name, phone number, e-mail and IP address, but only for non-Chinese users.
WhatsApp: the targeted person’s basic data, address book and contacts who have the targeted person in their address book; it is possible to collect message metadata in real time (“Pen Register”); message content can be retrieved via iCloud backups.
Wickr: Date and time of account creation, types of terminal on which the application is installed, date of last connection, number of messages exchanged, external identifiers associated with the account (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers), avatar image, data linked to adding or deleting.
TL;DR Signal is the messaging system that provides the least information to investigators.
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Let’s Move Forward https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/24/move-forward.html #freeculture #bookclub
Speaking of men getting owned, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism who wrote the book Strongmen, regularly calls out and degrades wannabe dictators like Elon Musk and it’s cathartic to witness.
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/17/green-comet-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/10/green-comet-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/03/green-comet-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
** week notes **
Last year I set out to rekindle my reading habit. That went well. This year’s reading has been enjoyable, but I’m not cozy with the ratio of non-fiction to fiction I’ve read this year…non-fiction (especially of the computing persuasion) far out balances the fiction I’ve read. I think this is mostly because I’ve been mired amidst a fiction book that I’ve found to be a slog…but enjoyable, too. I’d have abandoned it and moved on, elsewise. Onward!
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Distress Beacon https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/27/distress-beacon.html #freeculture #bookclub
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was visiting Germany once, and saw a guy try to load his bicycle onto the bike racks they have on the front of city buses. There were rules about when you could do that, which were posted on the bus stop sign, and I guess the guy thought this was a time when he could do that. But no, the bus driver disagreed. The bus driver got off the bus with a rule book, flipped it open to what I guess were the rules about bikes on the bus, and showed him the rules. The guy pointed at the sign, the bus driver said no and pointed at the book, and they went back and forth for I don’t know how long. It felt a lot like these videos lol
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Death off the Cuff https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/20/death-cuff.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Jectoons Random Vignettes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/13/vignettes.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Expedition Sasquatch, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/06/sasquatch-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Expedition Sasquatch, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/29/sasquatch-2.html #freeculture #bookclub