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Book Recommendation For Everyone:
Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed For Men
by Caroline Criso Perez
paraphrasing:
...so much data fails to take into account gender...and women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, money, and often wtth their lives"
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#HumanRights #AI #Computing
#Coding #Mastodon #Fediverse
#Employment #Health #Business
#Finance #Software #Parenting
What am I reading and do you care?
- Not finished the Heythwaite series by Annie Rogers yet... the antics of a Yorkshire town.
- All at Sea by Johnathan Whitelaw, cosy crime, quite light as I wanted some easy reading to counter the heavy topics of late.
- Time for Ursula by Lorna Foyle, paranormal about Mother Shipton of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Max Porter.
The recent death of your wife has made you a single father, so you turn to a crow for help, but the crow’s advice is hard to follow.
4 of 5 library cats 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛.
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This dialogue strikes with intensity, carrying a raw realism that feels almost unsettling. It lays bare Earth’s complete inability to comprehend the Belters, exposing a world still shackled to a colonizer mindset—echoes of 19th‑century imperialism—coldly indifferent to the struggles and realities of the people it subjugates.
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Just finished #reading Star Ship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein. Better than (and very different to) the film. Reminds me more of Full Metal Jacket but set on a different planet. Well worth a read, but I'd say more for fans of military fiction rather than sci-fi.
I'm finally getting around to reading The Three -Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
I've only watched a couple of clips of the TV series, so going into it cold.
Picked it and the second book, The Dark Forest, up in a second-hand store (Op Shop). $2.50 each, 2016 printing, excellent condition.
Having a fine time with Sam Byers's smartly written Perfidious Albion, whose concerns about identity, data privacy, and political extremism have only gotten more pressing since it was published in 2018. But the tone is frequently absurdist rather than solemn, so it goes down easy
Five stars:
The Great British Bump-Off by John Allison and Max Sarin (Illustrator) (2023) is a delightful comic book parody of the ridiculous numbers of murder mysteries inspired by The Great British Bake-Off and similar cooking competition shows.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/great_british_bump_off.html
Behold my awesome short story collection. It has a little bit of everything, if everything is defined as fantasy AND science fiction. Even my cat likes it.
Gandalf the Grey Cat is not for sale, but you can buy Relics From a Traveling Show:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/relics-from-a-traveling-show-ebook1
kindle (DRM free)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWQRWGY
Kobo, Nook & more:
https://books2read.com/relicsfromatravelingshow
*also on bookshop.org, Hoopla, Overdrive & Biblioboard. Ask your local library to purchase it!
A younger but fully grown-ass person working behind the counter of a bookshop had to ask me how to spell 'traitor' this afternoon.
Tell me our brains aren't being turned to shit by social media and the endless AI-style lazy paths so accessible in the first world today.
Was looking for this, btw (and they had it):
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/253399/the-spy-and-the-traitor-by-ben-macintyre/
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📚 Japanese Gothic by: Kylie Lee Baker
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wil...
https://bookblabla.com/book/japanese-gothic
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📚 There Is No Antimemetics Division by: qntm
One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.
These entities can feed on...
https://bookblabla.com/book/there-is-no-antimemetics-division
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![One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.
These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you you—and you’ll never even know anything changed.
They can turn you into a living ghost—make it so you’re standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won’t know you’re there.
They’re predators equipped with the ultimate camouflage, living black holes for information, able to consume our very memories of their existence.
And they aren’t just feeding on us. They’re invading.
But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that you’re at war? How do you contain something you can’t record or remember?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
No, this is not your first day.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel.
“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.”—The](/proxy/post_attachment/1157036/a404751c2d74b9a199abae559f4e3fa5.jpg "One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.
These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you you—and you’ll never even know anything changed.
They can turn you into a living ghost—make it so you’re standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won’t know you’re there.
They’re predators equipped with the ultimate camouflage, living black holes for information, able to consume our very memories of their existence.
And they aren’t just feeding on us. They’re invading.
But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that you’re at war? How do you contain something you can’t record or remember?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
No, this is not your first day.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel.
“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.”—The")
5/5 @thestorygraph for "Though I Know She Lies", book 8 in Sara Woods Antony Maitland series.
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It was #Mystery done very, very right, for me.
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9f89c049-9035-4644-bd91-5b3451d37202
Putting aside "The Point Prover Has Entered The Chat" aspect of this response, if we are serious about whether or not people can fluently differentiate LLM text from human-written text, we're not going to understand how or whether we can do it if our basis is a series of KPIs like # of languages we speak, education level we've attained, this or that credential, and so on.(1) None of those things confer reading comprehension by themselves, and the mindset that leads one to conflate them with demonstrated ability is literally the problem. "I know 6 languages, and I'm not able to tell the difference between LLM-generated text and human-written text" is, if anything, a self own. I read it as a limitation of self awareness, not a demonstration of fact.
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(1) If you haven't yet met a person with a PhD in English who lacks basic reading comprehension, I recommend it as a one-time life experience.
I mean, I won't say no because books should be shared. But like a nervous parent I'll worry about them until they're safely back home 😜 😂
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This is the kind of challenge we like around here 😁
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"The joy was the point...the point was the happy ending. When (genre romance) is done well...it does a thing to your brain. I did not know I needed this." --Jacob Tierney
(it includes discussion specific to "Heated Rivalry", but it's more about queerness in media and society)
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Happy Pride--make sure you, when you are listing or recommending queer stories, that they're written by queer folk. When you recommend BIPOC stories, that the author isn't white.
Paraphrasing what 'Nathan says in the screenshot below, "nothing about people without those people."
https://apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/the-shoulder-check-problem/
justread.app 3.6 is out 🎧
The headline feature: audiobooks. They now play right alongside your EPUBs and PDFs, whether a book is a single file or a folder of chapter tracks. You get a chapter list, adjustable speed, bookmarks, a sleep timer, skip back/forward, Lock Screen controls, background playback, and Car Mode. It always resumes exactly where you left off.
It's #SilentSunday now you know what to do 😁
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