Discovered a gold mine of #travel #books (one of my favourite categories) recommendations at the back of my latest #goodread
Eight pages of recommendations. Yum
#nonfiction #reading #travellerstales
Discovered a gold mine of #travel #books (one of my favourite categories) recommendations at the back of my latest #goodread
Eight pages of recommendations. Yum
#nonfiction #reading #travellerstales
Thanks to Dan Gilmor for this post.
An article which highlights the trolling depth that #Goodread (thank to Amazon) has sunk to. #Enshitification personified. We could all do without platforms like this one (although it was a good site once which served the readerhip well).
Just a good read ! https://www.wattpad.com/1553213777-me-ness. I love small indie writers taking on a different views. #wattpad #goodread #indie
“I have never experienced a less pleasing contrast than the one which overwhelms the traveler…as he journeys out of Nevada across California and into the frenetic bustle of #LosAngeles ”
- Jan Morris 1956
(Amazing #goodread )
Compulsory #psychologic testing for public officials
*Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*
(12/12)
...of millions of people and there progeny would have lived, making their, now lost forever, contributions to mankind. --7% #DarkTriads, you say? Well, yes, but using the #Confucian aptitude tests, most could have been filtered out, I'd reply.
//
The last mentioned article is a #GoodRead:
During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours. #goodread
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/18/trump-public-lands-conservation-workers
Enlightening comparison of European and US-American behaviour (written by #theeconomist), it's a #goodread:
"There is no Brussels quip about turning an unwilling neighbour into “our 28th state” (on the contrary, many of the EU’s neighbours are desperate to join the club). Nor do European vice-presidents fly uninvited to places they are seeking to annex, on the pretext that their spouse wants to watch a sledge race."
#Europe #Trump #Tariffs
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/10/the-thing-about-europe-its-the-actual-land-of-the-free-now
Critique de « Run Your Own Mail Server » (5 étoiles) : best email how to i've read
Just finished the REVENGE of the TIPPING POINT by Macolm Gladwell. It's really interesting in the context of our current political climate but also around things as facetious as Linux on the Desktop or Artificial intelligence. It's hard to observe and participate in some of these group-think related tipping points while also trying to be introspective without feeling as if you are part of the problem. Or worse, becoming apathetic or putting your hands over your ears and pretending everything is fine.
His end quote has rung a bell in me however, "The tools necessary to control an epidemic are sitting on the table, right in front of us. We can let the unscrupulous take them. Or we can pick them up ourselves, and use them to build a better world". Sometimes, those of us with the abilities or talent or voice just need someone to remind us it seems.
Tipping points are fabricated, engineered, built and that's OUR lane.
Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it – Ash Center #goodread #elonmusk
https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/efficiency-%E2%88%92-or-empire-how-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-could-end-government-as-we-know-it/
Like honey? Like bees? (You should; they help make food possible)
A few poems to celebrate and a bit on a novel I really loved: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/01/hey-honey-poems-about-bees.html.
#honey #bees #pollinators #insects #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poetry #poem #poems #GoodRead
They ‘didn’t look the type’: how the media was fooled by Bashar and Asma al-Assad | Bashar al-Assad | The Guardian #goodread
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/09/how-media-was-fooled-bashar-asma-al-assad
"we’ve become masters of identifying what’s missing, but we’ve forgotten to ask why anyone should care about filling these holes" - Victoria Mummelthei on academic writing =>https://nodiscipline.hypotheses.org/3904 #goodread #writing
#GoodRead: Casey Handmer explores how falling costs of solar and batteries are impacting industry operational strategies and urging rapid technological innovation.
@cjhandmer
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/solar-and-batteries-for-generic-use-cases/
Trump voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own | George Monbiot | The Guardian #goodread
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/trump-voters-revolution-politics-right
#GoodRead: The article critiques traditional space colonization terms and models, emphasizing the need for advanced technology and a larger population for realistic extraterrestrial living.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/10/conceptual-models-of-space-col.html
#GoodRead: Casey Handmer criticizes NASA's SLS for its high costs and rare launches, deeming it harmful to the agency's credibility and project management.
@cjhandmer
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/sls-is-still-a-national-disgrace/
#ObiKaufmann has a new book! published by #HeydayBooks Makes us take timeto think more broadly. #GoodRead #Nature #Fire #CaliforniaFires #California
ferrari camper vans and other imaginary secret cars jump out of mr. françois' AI photo book https://www.designboom.com/art/ferrari-camper-vans-secret-cars-mr-francois-ai-photo-book-promptographs-09-20-2024/
(#Webfind via https://flipboard.com/@bcckcr/future-proof-4lh0s3f6z #FutureProof #GoodRead)