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i recently finished the shards of earth trilogy, it was very good reading translation state now
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Oct 24, 2023 16:34
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monarchs and milkweed was interesting. i didn't know monarchs don't actually pollinate milkweed, they basically just eat the plant and contribute nothing in return. one interesting argument the guy makes is that the decline of monarchs probably isn't due to lack of milkweeds. it's largely driven by habitat destruction/climate change in their very fragile overwintering grounds in mexico, plus possibly lack of fall nectar sources. so i'm going to make sure i've got plenty of asters at the house for the little buddies to get down to mexico. now i'm reading endless forms the secret world of wasps. she brings up pollen wasps that live off of pollen but she hasn't talked about them yet. i think she's more of a social wasp researcher.
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Oct 24, 2023 16:58
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Eeyo posted:now i'm reading endless forms the secret world of wasps. she brings up pollen wasps that live off of pollen but she hasn't talked about them yet. i think she's more of a social wasp researcher. ooh my library actually has this one, might give it a read
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Oct 24, 2023 17:01
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wait did i not already post in this thread. i coulda sworn i did. oh well actually recently read: Jordan S. Rubin - Bizarro about a set of prosecutions under a profoundly nebulous law against the owners of one of the major synthetic cannabinoid brands' owners, detailing how you can literally go to the relevant authorities and ask if something is legal, get a yes answer, and then have the government turn around and say "nah, it's illegal now, and we reserve the right to hide what's actually illegal in general, and screw you if you try to bring in our own disagreement over the matter as evidence". a spectacular demonstration of how arbitrary and stupid US jurisprudence can be Benjamin Peters - How Not to Network a Nation and Sonja D. Schmid - Producing Power about the soviets' utterly unsuccessful attempts to develop an internet and very successful, but critically flawed efforts to develop a nuclear power industry, respectively. both broadly studies in organizational failures not recently read but whatever, it's yospos relevant: Gretchen McCulloch - Because Internet an academic linguistic study of the evolution of written language on the internet from the early days of the internet onward. it's a book about posting! or more specifically how specific media constraints shape casual written speech, focused on speech most people here are probably quite familiar with Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - The Red Web a study of (mostly) modern Russian efforts to monitor, influence, and censor the internet by journalists with considerable access to sources within the Russian security services Chingiz Aitmatov - The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years a very well constructed novel about the tensions between the modern and traditional in soviet central asia and a very horny camel. somehow the authorities chose to censor its original title and not its entirely unsubtle criticism of the soviet nation-building project
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Oct 24, 2023 19:18
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off topic because they weren’t really “good”, but I finished shadow of the torturer and claw of the conciliator. doubt I’ll read the others
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Oct 24, 2023 19:24
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HamAdams posted:ooh my library actually has this one, might give it a read i’ve thought it’s interesting so far (about half way through). it’s super long though, it’s a very thick book.
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Oct 24, 2023 21:41
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im reading Born to Run by Christopher McDougall right now. cool dumb guy book.i love it.
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Oct 24, 2023 21:45
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my daughter and I are reading Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods right now and it is really, really fun.
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Oct 25, 2023 05:34
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im almost done with capital volume 1 by k. marx
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Oct 25, 2023 08:14
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what does the k. stand for?
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Oct 25, 2023 08:53
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Oct 25, 2023 12:51
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well-read undead posted:what does the k. stand for? karen
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Oct 25, 2023 14:35
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kkkarl
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well-read undead posted:what does the k. stand for? he hasn’t gotten to the end yet dont spoil it for him
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Oct 25, 2023 16:40
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might gently caress around and read the brain of the firm finally
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Oct 25, 2023 18:57
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post hole digger posted:he hasn’t gotten to the end yet dont spoil it for him oh you mean the end of capital when josef k. marx is summarily executed in a quarry?
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Oct 25, 2023 19:06
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karl marx asks his brother to "tell him about the rabbits" and, well,
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Oct 25, 2023 19:10
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well-read undead posted:oh you mean the end of capital when josef k. marx is summarily executed in a quarry? I hope he gets to buy his coat first 
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Oct 25, 2023 19:25
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tell em groucho sent you
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Oct 25, 2023 19:42
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Dijkstracula posted:I hope he gets to buy his coat first he finishes with the coats and linen only like 200 pages into the book. afaict. now he’s spending half chapters tearing down his contemporaries and making fun of them
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Oct 26, 2023 07:58
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fart simpson posted:now he’s spending half chapters tearing down his contemporaries and making fun of them a venerable tradition amongst intellectuals, especially in the 19th century, man that was a catty century
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Oct 26, 2023 10:28
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I just started Infinite Jest, only a few pages in but its fun to recognise another favourite author Steve Aylett must have been taken with the application of humour here, it reads like a lot of his books I have previously enjoyed. (I picked this up after finishing the fourth Graydon Saunders Commonweal book and wanted something less taxing - The Commonweal books are idiosyncratic in the extreme and while the story inside is worthwhile, it's constantly trying to slip out of your grip like an eel)
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Oct 26, 2023 11:58
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honestly, despite its reputation of being an impenetrable doorstop, infinite jest fuckin owns mandatory echatonpost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I
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Oct 26, 2023 14:38
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fart simpson posted:he finishes with the coats and linen only like 200 pages into the book. afaict. now he’s spending half chapters tearing down his contemporaries and making fun of them sounds like he has a lot of growing up to do.
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wasp book update: the author has a 70-page long chapter where she’s having an imaginary dinner with aristotle (who she nicknames aris?) where she describes vespid wasps to him. this conceit is incredibly tiring. aristotle probably wouldn’t even talk to a woman about science, those greeks were misogynistic as gently caress.
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