Media Log: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (ed. Tara Moore)
Started: Nov 28, 2025
Media Log: The Hunter (Tana French)
Started: Nov 1, 2025
Finished: Dec 26, 2025
I loved this.
Media Log: Mood Machine (Liz Pelly)
Started: Jul 15, 2025
”The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”
Cory Doctorow
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Greetings, followers of my reader. This is Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic) and your friend has very nearly finished my excellent 2025 book "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemmed to the scrap heap of history.
#bookstodon #enshittification #nowreading
Greetings, followers of my reader. This is Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic) and your friend has very nearly finished my excellent 2025 book "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemmed to the scrap heap of history.
#bookstodon #enshittification #nowreading
A very Ukrainian day. 🇺🇦
#Ukraine #YaroslavHrytsak #kvas #bookstodon #history #NowReading #books
somehow I missed this article #nowReading (well, I'll get to it today)
Replacing billionairish platforms with ZIP files - Delta Chat @delta
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Had half expected Harry Partch to arrive at his tuning system from a mathematical or visual perspective. Instead, got a rant against music that drifts too far from spoken word and a plea for a return to 'ancient greek' musical values. Much to unpack there, but a fascinating read so far nonetheless.
Cory Doctorow
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Just started @pluralistic's Walkaway 📚
#Solarpunk #IntentionalCommunity #Enshittification #Communes #Utopia #Dystopia #NowReading #Reading
Just started @pluralistic's Walkaway 📚
#Solarpunk #IntentionalCommunity #Enshittification #Communes #Utopia #Dystopia #NowReading #Reading
Had half expected Harry Partch to arrive at his tuning system from a mathematical or visual perspective. Instead, got a rant against music that drifts too far from spoken word and a plea for a return to 'ancient greek' musical values. Much to unpack there, but a fascinating read so far nonetheless.
"On the Web, marketers leverage this kind of information to better target their ads. Perhaps alternative rock fans could receive ads for nonfiction books written by liberal authors, while country music fans could receive ad for books by conservative authors." Schwartz, Webonomics (1997)
Media Log: Prophet Song (Paul Lynch, 2023)
Started: Aug 2, 2025
Finished: Sep 5, 2025
This 1972 SF novel is set in a future in which #TootCat users are among the few survivors of a global calamity created by the "Demons" -- descendants of today's Republicans.
(I first read this as a tiny sometime in the mid-70s, borrowed from the Durham County Library downtown (when it was in this building iirc), only acquiring a copy for myself relatively recently -- which is to say sometime after 1985 or so. [straightface])
Anyway, I'm reading it to @Harena as a bedtime story.
Media Log: Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Liz Pelly, 2025)
Started: Aug 1, 2025
Media Log: Naked in Death (Nora Roberts, 1995)
Started: Jul 16, 2025
Finished: Aug 1, 2025
For “Classic Trash” on Goodreads.
Media Log: Night of the Crabs (Guy N. Smith, 1976)
Started: Jun 30, 2025
Finished: Jul 31, 2025
For #372Pages
Media Log: The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, 2025)
Started: Jun 24, 2025
Jeff Jarvis
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“Magazine” by @jeffjarvis is the fascinating story of the origin, rise, fall, and possible future of the magazine industry, as told by a magazine super fan who started Entertainment Weekly.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/magazine-9781501394966/?ref=activitypub
I recommend the 3.5 hour audio version read by the author. It’s included in US-based Spotify subscriptions.
https://open.spotify.com/show/5coJEpR5hAScmCwVH1zTRa?si=9f922a5ddfa0496c&ref=activitypub