Hello, I just imported my GoodReads data and am giving federation a try. I like to read things on the "100 best novels/classics/whatevers" lists. I like to think that makes me an educated gentleman, but I probably just means I'm a dork.
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A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark …
I may have been too quick to judge. I'm about 2/3 through this now and it's gotten better.
I may have been too quick to judge. I'm about 2/3 through this now and it's gotten better.
A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
…
I'm about halfway through this. Considering stopping. Not really clicking with me. I guess the main mystery is whether or not the guy ultimately survives, but he's so unlikeable, I don't care if he lives or not.
I'm about halfway through this. Considering stopping. Not really clicking with me. I guess the main mystery is whether or not the guy ultimately survives, but he's so unlikeable, I don't care if he lives or not.
A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot …
Pondering my Halloween reading
Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.
— Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Page 80)
In a rural Vermont college, a group of Classics students get carried away at a …
I got the Kindle edition as a holiday gift. I enjoyed the beginning and then kind of lost interest. I put it down for a few months and then finished it in a few days. I guess I needed to be in a back-to-school frame of mind to enjoy it.
or the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work …
I saw the trailer for the AppleTV+ show and decided to check out the book. Holy crap, it sucked me in. Very entertaining.
or the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, …
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new …
Oh hell, I got so excited, I didn't notice that he name drops Mastodon a paragraph later!
Oh hell, I got so excited, I didn't notice that he name drops Mastodon a paragraph later!
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism …
"Cloudalists know they can destroy any third-party developer (i.e. vassal capitalist), eking out a living on their cloud fief, who dares to contact one of their users (i.e. cloud serfs) without first paying a cloud rent.
They know they can treat their users however they like when did anyone last decline the terms and conditions of a software update? - because of the hostages they are holding: our contacts, friends, chat histories, photos, music, videos, all of which we lose if we switch to a competing cloud fief."
— Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Page 146)
Long live the fediverse!
