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Furthering<p>I am haunted by this article and not 100% sure I want to read the book. It's about the botanists trying to preserve the seed bank collection during the Siege of Leningrad.</p><p>"In the end, at least nineteen botanists died inside the institute while having access to seeds, nuts and tubers that could have saved their lives. ‘It wasn’t difficult not to eat the collection,’ Lekhnovich later protested. ‘It was impossible to eat this, your life’s work, the work of the lives of your colleagues.’ Besides, the institute gave them a reason to go on: ‘During the blockade, people died not only from shells and hunger but also because of the aimlessness of their existence. In the most direct way, our work saved us. It invested us in living.’"</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/GHY5g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/GHY5g</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Seeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seeds</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plants</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientists</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meaning</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWII</span></a></p>
Walt<p>Finished reading:</p><p>The End of Eternity <br>by<br>Isaac Asimov</p><p>page turner!<br>two thumbs up!<br>👍 🤖 👍 </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_</span><span class="invisible">of_Eternity</span></a><br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a><br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/coverart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coverart</span></a><br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/IsaacAsimov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsaacAsimov</span></a></p><p>Groups:<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/scifi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scifi@a.gup.pe</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://kbin.social/m/scifi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scifi@kbin.social</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@Scifiart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Scifiart</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sciencefiction</span></a></span></p>
Jay<p>Media Log: The Legend of Rah and the Muggles (N.K. Stouffer, 1984 (?))</p><p>Started: Jan 1, 2025</p><p>Reading this for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/372Pages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>372Pages</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowReading</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/MediaLog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLog</span></a></p>
LordWoolamaloo<p>Moomins biscuits!!! Colleague brought some back from her break in London.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Moomins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moomins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/biscuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biscuits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livres</span></a></p>
JL Lycette MD, author🩺📚<p>Happy <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience</span></a> 🔬🧪💪</p><p>To celebrate, the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebook</span></a> of my first book, THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW, is on sale for $.99 ✨</p><p>It’s a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/speculative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speculative</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> with a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/strongfemaleprotagonist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strongfemaleprotagonist</span></a> along with a cast of strong <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WomeninScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomeninScience</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/womeninstem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninstem</span></a> supporting characters </p><p>I’m a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/physician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physician</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientist</span></a>, and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/indieauthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indieauthor</span></a> 🩺👩‍⚕️🧬✍️</p><p>Also <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/parent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parent</span></a> of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GirlsInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GirlsInSTEM</span></a> 💕</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Will-See-You-Now-ebook/dp/B0BLD16W7T/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/Algorithm-Will-See-</span><span class="invisible">You-Now-ebook/dp/B0BLD16W7T/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/supportwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supportwomen</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/medmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingCommunity</span></a></p>
Joy_intl<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@markwyner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markwyner</span></a></span> Thank you for calling attention to this.</p><p>As a self-described member of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> lover club, we're nothing if not verbose.</p><p>So I propose we all make a list of replacement words:</p><p>Activism == involvement, </p><p>Advocacy == championing</p><p>Barrier == blockade, impediment, obstacle, and my favorite = roadblock</p><p>Quick, let's all get dictionaries and thesauruses out before they try to make them illegal.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>"On this episode of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/AmericanPrestige" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanPrestige</span></a>, <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PeterBeinart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterBeinart</span></a> speaks with Danny and Derek about his book <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza</span></a>: A Reckoning, <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/AmericanJews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanJews</span></a>’ conception of and relationship with <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>, and how things have changed since the start of the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/GenocideInGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenocideInGaza</span></a>." </p><p><a href="https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e197-american-jews-israel-and-palestine-w-peter-beinart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">americanprestige.supportingcas</span><span class="invisible">t.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e197-american-jews-israel-and-palestine-w-peter-beinart</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/oPt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oPt</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PalestineSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineSolidarity</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/JewishAmericanPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishAmericanPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/JewishAmericanLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishAmericanLeft</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Azalea Forrest<p>A WITCH IN ISENSHIRE is a bold cup of coffee made with determination, personal growth, and adventure. Book 2 in The Witch of Emelle series, follow Maggie and Basil as they travel to Emelle, and then the technologically advanced city of Isenshire. </p><p><a href="https://mybook.to/awitchinisenshire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mybook.to/awitchinisenshire</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>💙📚 <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Kat Kimbriel<p>“Show, don’t tell.” “Murder your darlings.” “Write every day.”<br> <br>Certain pieces of advice are widespread in the writing community -- but what do they really mean? </p><p>Award-winning author <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@swan_tower" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>swan_tower</span></a></span> tackles these old saws, dissecting each one to see what purpose it might serve . . . and when you should toss it aside.</p><p><a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/WritingAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingAdvice</span></a> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/instruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>instruction</span></a> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/how" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>how</span></a>-to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/bookViewCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookViewCafe</span></a> </p><p>LINK: <a href="https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-the-writers-little-book-of-platitudes-by-marie-brennan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces</span><span class="invisible">-the-writers-little-book-of-platitudes-by-marie-brennan/</span></a></p>
Excessively Diverting<p>The BBC News has a great roundup of events happening across England this year for Jane’s birthday.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250116-how-to-celebrate-jane-austens-250th-birthday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/travel/article/2025011</span><span class="invisible">6-how-to-celebrate-jane-austens-250th-birthday</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Regency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Regency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JaneAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JaneAusten</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
דניאלה סולזמן 🎗️✡️🕎🟦🎥<p>New from Solzy at the Movies: Gangsters vs. Nazis by Michael Benson</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p><p><a href="https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/02/11/gangsters-vs-nazis-by-michael-benson/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">solzyatthemovies.com/2025/02/1</span><span class="invisible">1/gangsters-vs-nazis-by-michael-benson/</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>Lately I’ve become a little obsessed with <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> romances that focus on older protagonists, and I particularly enjoyed two recent novels, Ryan Love’s Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out and Matt Cain’s The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle. <br><a href="https://buff.ly/3Qfnd0S" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3Qfnd0S</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerBooks</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romance</span></a></p>
Adam Dalliance<p>Read "Making Sense Of Chaos" by J Doyne Farmer, in which he describes some of the problems with standard static economic models and his successes with instead using "complexity economics", where he's building giant models of economies out of interactions between software simulated people called agents.</p><p>The thing, he reckons, about the mathematical equation driven models is that they are static, and so only really reflect changes when exogenous shocks hit the system. So you can see a change in the model if there's some supply shock caused by a pandemic or whatever, but the economic model won't evolve over time to reflect changes which come from within the economy itself. It always reaches an equilibrium until the next shock.</p><p>Whereas his agent-based models are chaotic, and can model the chaotic behavior of a real economy. Dynamic changes within the model can lead to boom and bust cycles, or to market crashes based on nothing but the endogenous behavior of the model without requiring some shock from outside it like a war or a pandemic.</p><p>He describes some success stories over his career of models getting increasingly complex as computational power increases, and paints a convincing picture of how better models can help decision makers determine the best courses of action.</p><p>Maybe it's because I'm a programmer from the games business, and not really much of a mathematician, but this is the method I'd have used if you asked me to model an economy. Hard to see how it could possibly work with just an equation of demand and supply.</p><p>But of course economics as a discipline is older than computers so they couldn't do it that way in the first place.</p><p>It would be good to have the field of economics catch up to trying to model the real world instead of just justify their pre-conceived ideas, to validate concepts that allow the rich getting to rule the world and the politicians to do what they were planning anyway.</p><p><a href="https://boing.world/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://boing.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://boing.world/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a></p>
The Vulgar Tongue<p>RENDEZVOUS. A place of meeting. The rendezvous of the beggars were, about the year 1638, according to the Bellman, St. Quinton's, the Three Crowns in the Vintry, St. Tybs, and at Knapsbury: there were four barns within a mile of London.</p><p>A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)</p><p>--<br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slang</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
earthling<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@ami" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ami</span></a></span> <br>2/2<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
earthling<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@ami" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ami</span></a></span> </p><p>Some books on AI ethics:<br>1/2<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
🌈☔🌦️🍄<p>Finished "gathering moss", by robin wall kimmerer, narated by the same. While off to a slow start and an occasional cringy remark with maybe a bit too much focus on family? It's still a nice narative book about moss. </p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
ReadbeanThe Connoisseur by Frank Banta <br> <br> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60991" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60991</a><br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reading?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstodon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scifi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sciencefiction?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scifiart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifiart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sciencefictionart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefictionart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retro?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retro</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retrofuturism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrofuturism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pulpfiction?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pulpfiction</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pulp?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pulp</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookcovers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookcovers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/coverart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coverart</a>
US news | The Guardian<p>Top Republican condemns Elon Musk for ‘supplication’ to China in new book <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-tom-cotton-china-book" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f</span><span class="invisible">eb/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-tom-cotton-china-book</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpadministration</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnationalsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USforeignpolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USforeignpolicy</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Politicsbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politicsbooks</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/AsiaPacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsiaPacific</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCongress</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USSenate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSenate</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>"Join Michael in his discussion with Professor <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/JusteneHillEdwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusteneHillEdwards</span></a> about her powerful new book, <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SavingsAndTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SavingsAndTrust</span></a>: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank. Created after the Civil War, the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/FreedmansBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedmansBank</span></a> was where tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people placed their savings only to have them stolen by corrupt white bankers."</p><p><a href="https://redcircle.com/shows/9628320e-8ac7-43bc-b394-79d0ca7fc4d7/ep/4d1d60ac-1c10-4b2f-8b80-4099d78606dd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">redcircle.com/shows/9628320e-8</span><span class="invisible">ac7-43bc-b394-79d0ca7fc4d7/ep/4d1d60ac-1c10-4b2f-8b80-4099d78606dd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Freedmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freedmen</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Reconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reconstruction</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ReconstructionEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReconstructionEra</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/RacialWealthGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialWealthGap</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>