I'm doing something I never thought I'd get to do again. I'm specifically fundraising for a woman to head the Democratic ticket and to be the next President of the United States. I want to do this with all of you here on #Mastodon, so I've created a fundraising page specifically for us: #MastodonForHarris. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris 1/
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For your enjoyment: Pride and Prejudice with Androids, an interactive read-write text adventure from the Library of Unwritten Books. In a future where automation provides for all, many live lives of leisure similar to the landed gentry. Play here: https://libraryofunwrittenbooks.org/?text=pride_and_prejudice.txt
FWIW, if you’re new to The Library of Unwritten Books, I suggest reading the Tips page before jumping in. See https://libraryofunwrittenbooks.org/tips/ Successful “game play” only happens if you embrace the role of reader-AUTHOR. ;)
Spoiler alert: I gave up eating mammals largely for environmental reasons. So, I’m sensitive to folks who throw out AI’s environmental cost without asking compared to what. I think the objection to AI is something deeper. That’s what I struggle with in the above talk.
#AllStarTrek There's this, the episode with the giant telepathic stomach in space (#Bliss), how many #SevenOfNine episodes are there with just this one character? Does any other character get this kind of solo-episode attention?
Ik las gisterenavond een boeiend essay van Pieter van Os met de titel "Red Robinson Crusoe". Hij citeert de historicus Adwin de Kluyver in "De eilanden van goed en kwaad" die Defoe's Robinson Crusoe typeert als »één groot pleidooi voor westers kapitalisme, mannelijke dadendrang, zelfredzaamheid, Britse superioriteit en raciale hiërarchie« en gaat vervolgens op onderzoek uit omdat hij zich "Robin Crusoe" anders herinnerde.
Ik kan instemmen met de vaststelling van boekenblogster Evelien de Nooijer dat »dit wel een boek [is] dat we mee zouden moeten nemen als we nadenken over de groene transitie en dat soort zaken.«
Voor de liefhebbers is er een interview uit 1967 waarin Tournier over het boek wordt bevraagd - in zwart-wit en in het Frans 😃 https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=B9oU7
@elonjet
Musk's internal monologue: "I shall walk imperially through the halls of power for this photo, like an 18th century duke, and then I shall cast my gaze upon you, little photo-person. Do not weep in the presence of my greatness but love me... from a distance."
"Would you believe that the entire ebook marketplace – including Kindle, iBooks, and thousands of ebook stores – depends on the volunteer work of about a dozen people?"
What I'm really trying to puzzle out is how these texts compare to older and still widely available Armenian works like Grigor of Narek's Book of Lamentations (Մատեան ողբերգութեան, c. 1000 CE). Initially, I thought the European works would be very different from the #Armenian ones, having been produced in a different cultural context. But I'm finding now that they're more similar than I'd assumed—at least, in the ways that would have been noticeable to the average Armenian reader around 1700. 9/
With the biography done, I'm now writing about Hohannēs's translation of Thomas a Kempis's The Imitation of Christ. It's been so interesting to read about how popular of a book this has been all over the world over the past 500 years. I've found that it's an anthology, really, the overall title being the incipit of the title of chapter 1: "De imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi." A more descriptive title would be "A Manual in Humility for Monastics." 12/?
Although Imitation was written in a totally different context (a European monastery in the 15th century), it's not as different from something like Grigor Narekatsi's Book of Lamentations (Մատեան ողբերգութեան) as I'd thought. They're both very humble and humbling works. They're quite complimentary, and, for that reason, they can't be categorized as simply Apstolic versus Catholic within an Ottoman-Armenian context—which is how I was thinking of them initially. 13/? @bookhistodons