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Saying that you do not want GenAI in the #books you read, the things you watch or the games you play is an understandable and NORMAL position. Maybe they have ethical concerns, maybe they love their artist homies. Maybe they don't like the bland garbage that AI generates. Stop framing this like an horde of neoluddites is starting the Butlerian Jihad (would be fun doh) just because they do not want to follow a romance autor who has a computer shitting novels instead of writing them herself.

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛

@[email protected] · 2 days ago

After having put it down for 3(?) years, I finished Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne. 📖

Good overview of the use of big data in policing and predictive policing. Not a lot of analysis along a critical race or surveillance studies angle, but I guess it’s a good companion to Benjamin, Alexander, Browne, Muhammad. Written in a very compelling way.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d1667f0d-be89-4304-a5fd-01bcac16b9ca #books #bookstodon #police #surveillance #bigData #sociology

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@[email protected] · 4 days ago

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

This book reminds you exactly how many problems we see today have direct roots in enslavement. Especially impactful if you are interested in policing and prison abolition. If you read this one and enjoy it, I would recommend following it up with Alexander's New Jim Crow and Benjamin's Race After Technology.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/efd39d34-c684-4099-ac1a-c16fb99069bb

In case you missed it, I put together a list of books for Black History Month that I think are absolutely fundamental: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/116104494085889919 #bookstodon #books

Feel free to recommend books to me!

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

Okay! It has been some weeks, but I have a #FridayBookRecs for Black History Month! History from a lot of different angles, mostly focusing on the US, but also some related to the African continent and the diaspora. #bookstodon #books

Here we go:

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

Last night I finished the best book I have read in a while: Cursed Daughter by Oyinkan Braithwaite, the same author as My Sister, The Serial Killer.

It tells the story of a family of cursed women. It bounces between narratives about a woman who dies by suicide on the same day that another woman is born. The latter is haunted by the former, her family raising her as if she is the reincarnation of the woman who died.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/198e7103-5ceb-4d4c-81cd-b4fe846046f1

#books #bookstodon

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Project Gutenberg

@[email protected] · 5 days ago

How reading books regulates your nervous system

Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.

by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/

#books #literature

Camillo Golgi's image of a dog’s olfactory bulb from his Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso, 1885.

A detailed anatomical illustration on aged cream paper showing layered neural structures of a dog's olfactory bulb. Large, bold black neurons dominate the middle sections, their sprawling dendrites branching upward like bare winter trees. At the top, shaded gray dome-shaped glomeruli are populated with star-shaped red neurons whose processes weave through flowing parallel fiber bundles. Slender blue threadlike fibers run vertically throughout, contrasting with the heavy black axons. At the bottom, finer and more delicate cells scatter into an increasingly sparse network of thin black lines. The overall composition has a striking visual rhythm, moving from dense complexity at the top to open, airy tracery at the bottom, with letters (a, b, d) annotating specific structures throughout.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Camillo_Golgi#/media/File:Camillo_Golgi's_image_of_a_dog%E2%80%99s_olfactory_bulb_(detail_2).jpg — Camillo Golgi's image of a dog’s olfactory bulb from his Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso, 1885. A detailed anatomical illustration on aged cream paper showing layered neural structures of a dog's olfactory bulb. Large, bold black neurons dominate the middle sections, their sprawling dendrites branching upward like bare winter trees. At the top, shaded gray dome-shaped glomeruli are populated with star-shaped red neurons whose processes weave through flowing parallel fiber bundles. Slender blue threadlike fibers run vertically throughout, contrasting with the heavy black axons. At the bottom, finer and more delicate cells scatter into an increasingly sparse network of thin black lines. The overall composition has a striking visual rhythm, moving from dense complexity at the top to open, airy tracery at the bottom, with letters (a, b, d) annotating specific structures throughout. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Camillo_Golgi#/media/File:Camillo_Golgi's_image_of_a_dog%E2%80%99s_olfactory_bulb_(detail_2).jpg

Big Think

How reading books regulates your nervous system

Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.

Project Gutenberg

@[email protected] · 5 days ago

How reading books regulates your nervous system

Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.

by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/

#books #literature

Big Think

How reading books regulates your nervous system

Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.

Court Cantrell prefers not to

@[email protected] · 5 days ago

So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."

Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.

#BarbaraKingsolver
#DemonCopperhead
#UPDA
#books
#amreading
#ILoveBooks

#Appalachia
#OxyContin
#addiction
#OpioidEpidemic
#CoalMining

Kem Herkes

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

Hi, Fediverse hivemind! I'm seeking recommendations for an e-ink ereader other than a Kindle.

I need a lightweight waterproof e-ink device that I can load with epubs. In a perfect world, it would support kindle, kobo & bookshop.org apps for direct reading of my existing library. (I use but don't love Calibre)

Anyone have an eink ereader they love?
Kobo? Pocketbook? Boox? Bigme? Does it support multiple sources of books? Am I dreaming?

Boosts welcomed.

#ereader #reading #books #bookstodon

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

New book for the to-read list: The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits) by Maximilian Kasy
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fe7f5786-d095-48cd-9bf6-db185896e46a
#bookstodon #AI #books

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Hans Cummings (he/him)

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

#ScribesAndMakers Feb. 18: Have you ever or would you ever do you own cover?

No, I'm neither an artist nor a graphic designer. I can swap out cover art if I'm using the same cover design and make tweaks to make it fit a template, but that's it. I know my limits.

#Books #Writing #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity

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Windy city

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

I'm so tired. People, I am not interested in reading *blogs* generated with claude, gemini or chatgpt. No, not even ones proofread by AI. Do it yourself. I do not wish to even accidentally click on "one-shotted" dummy projects. Don't show me your AI-generated analysis of anything. Above all, I do not wish to see images/artwork someone prompt created.

I value real content, with all its good and bad quirks, from actual human beings.

Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer.

This is a plead for help I never thought I'll have to make.

#noai #enshittification #writing #bookstodon #reading #books #quotes #quote #cybersec #mentalhealth #adhd #art #cooking #blog #indieweb

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Maddy Teichmann

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

#introduction

Hi there, I’m Maddy.

I’m an American/German creator based in southern France. I’ve been over on Youtube for the past year, but hope contributing with content over here will help introduce more people to the #Fediverse and a different kind of social media experience.

I talk about:
#DumbPhone
#DigitalMinimalism
#BoardGames
#CD
#Thrifting
#Analog
#LowTech
#Books
#Library
#Hobbies

📞💿📚🎲

Big thanks to @andypiper and @_elena for introducing me to this world.

Maddy Teichmann

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

#introduction

Hi there, I’m Maddy.

I talk about:
#DumbPhone
#DigitalMinimalism
#BoardGames
#CD
#Thrifting
#Analog
#LowTech
#Books
#Library
#Hobbies

📞💿📚🎲

Big thanks to @andypiper and @_elena for introducing me to this world.

Hans Cummings (he/him)

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

#ScribesAndMakers Feb. 18: Have you ever or would you ever do you own cover?

No, I'm neither an artist nor a graphic designer. I can swap out cover art if I'm using the same cover design and make tweaks to make it fit a template, but that's it. I know my limits.

#Books #Writing #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity

Windy city

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

I value real content, with all its good and bad quirks, from actual human beings.

Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer.

This is a plead for help I never thought I'll have to make.

#noai #enshittification #writing #bookstodon #reading #books #quotes #quote #cybersec #mentalhealth #adhd #art #cooking #blog #indieweb