The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
#HackerNews #CharlesDarwin #OnlineWork #ScienceHistory #Evolution #Literature
Robert Louis Stevenson's Art of Living (and Dying)
https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/
#HackerNews #RobertLouisStevenson #ArtOfLiving #ArtOfDying #Literature #Inspiration #LifeLessons
Neil Brown
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Upgrade your reading list with this one weird trick!
(a blog post, by me)
https://slothrop.org/2025/11/17/upgrade-your-reading-list-with-this-one-weird-trick/
Cory Doctorow
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I've been reading about and by necessity mucking about with UEFI boot-related matters the past while as I get settled with Linux, reorganize partitions, etc., which led eventually to this – a sobering & still-topical read on the hardware/firmware-level erosion of your privacy and control of your own IT:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated
More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#Secure_Boot_criticism
I've been reading about and by necessity mucking about with UEFI boot-related matters the past while as I get settled with Linux, reorganize partitions, etc., which led eventually to this – a sobering & still-topical read on the hardware/firmware-level erosion of your privacy and control of your own IT:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated
More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#Secure_Boot_criticism
Upgrade your reading list with this one weird trick!
(a blog post, by me)
https://slothrop.org/2025/11/17/upgrade-your-reading-list-with-this-one-weird-trick/
Jess Mahler
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I made a seventh book of poetry available on Internet Archive
Elephant Snow
https://archive.org/details/elephant-snow-by-richard-j-tilley
Previous books available on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
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https://www.richard.tilley.network/
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#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poem #WritingCommunity #literature #art #amwriting #WritersOfMastodon #writing
I made a seventh book of poetry available on Internet Archive
Elephant Snow
https://archive.org/details/elephant-snow-by-richard-j-tilley
Previous books available on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
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https://subspacewagon.io
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https://www.richard.tilley.network/
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#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poem #WritingCommunity #literature #art #amwriting #WritersOfMastodon #writing
Aunt Mary's Storybook
https://cjtinc.org/projects/amsb/
#HackerNews #Aunt #Storybook #storytelling #creativity #literature #children #books
The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career
#HackerNews #computerpoetry #JMCoeetzee #programming #literature #techhistory
The Pen and the Spade: The Poems of Seamus Heaney
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-spade-2
#HackerNews #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #LiteraryReview #Literature #Art
Lisa Melton
and 1 other
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Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism
"Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft."
https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/
Wollstonecraft at PG:
Alex Akselrod
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‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
By Nadia Khomami
Amy Levy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49112
Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism
"Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft."
https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/
Wollstonecraft at PG:
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
By Nadia Khomami
Amy Levy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49112
Børge
and 1 other
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Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂
Known for THE LADY OF THE SHROUD and THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, Stoker gave the world its most iconic vampire with DRACULA. 🧛♂️
Read the 1899 public-domain edition here:
https://archive.org/details/dracu00stok/page/2/mode/2up
#LetReadersRead #Literature #LiteratureLegend #Horror #Books #Vampire
Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂
Known for THE LADY OF THE SHROUD and THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, Stoker gave the world its most iconic vampire with DRACULA. 🧛♂️
Read the 1899 public-domain edition here:
https://archive.org/details/dracu00stok/page/2/mode/2up
#LetReadersRead #Literature #LiteratureLegend #Horror #Books #Vampire