earthling<p>The Art of Physics: How Science Explains the Chaos, Contradictions, and Unpredictability of Life by Zahaan Bharmal, 2025</p><p>"What does complex system theory teach us about getting fired? How does the study of subatomic particles help us predict elections? In his insightful and entertaining new book, Zahaan Bharmal applies lessons from physics to identify elegant explanations for our messy world. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essays</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
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Some of my favorite #essays with no context (please feel free to share some of yours too) 
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I explored some of these ideas in an essay for the CIEP a few years ago: "How well read should editors be?"
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/how-well-read-should-editors-be/
Sentence first · How well read should editors be?
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"After a brief dalliance with literacy, humanity is returning to its oral roots."
Not sure I go along with all the arguments here, but it's a considered essay on deep reading vs "digital orality" (paywall currently removed):
https://www.vox.com/politics/414049/reading-books-decline-tiktok-oral-culture
Vox · Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?
New post on my blog! An essay full of opinions about AI and how our human creativity is at stake, while also addressing some points I had a debate about this last weekend with a friend.
(Next post will be about ACPI S0x, aka "s2idle", and related power management stuff... 
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Ariadna's Blog · AI: Not a Friend, Not a Therapist
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How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems
American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking.
Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/651185/partisan-split-election-integrity-gets-even-... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/cyberattacks-shake-voters-trust-in-elections.html
Ghassan Kanafani’s “Guerrilla Rhetoric,” Then and Now
Jay Murphy reviews “#GhassanKanafani: Selected Political Writings,” a collection of newly translated #essays by the influential Palestinian philosopher, author, and activist.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ghassan-kanafanis-guerrilla-rhetoric-then-and-now/
#Palestine #PalestineLiberation #PalestinianResistance #PFLP #books @bookstodon @palestine
Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware
Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together
Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV
DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status
DIY robots "drones"
Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9
Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it
Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.
Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools
Writing more of my own tools #DIY
#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift
Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic
Start an #InternetResiliencyClub
Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy
#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial
#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance
Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P
DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse
Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures
Start asking money for advice & technology support
Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art
#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic
#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki
#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise
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"I cherished the whole sequin-heavy, three-hour, glittery, multicultural spectacle that was our continent’s pop music Olympics." #longreads @vesnajaksic @ElectricLit
Electric Literature · Eurovision Reminds Me of a Country That No Longer Exists - Electric LiteratureEurope’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it
Oh nein, jetzt hat es auch mich erwischt: Ich hab jetzt Newsletter! Hört auf den Namen “Zettelwirtschaft” und enthält neben kuratierten Kulturtipps den einen oder anderen aktuellen Gedankengang. Kostenlos und nur 1x im Monat. Na gut, eine uralte oder brandneue Kurzgeschichte gibt’s zwischendurch auch noch. Schaut mal rein: https://jensprausnitz.de/2025/zettelwirtschaft/
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“Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal
6/12
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 -
This too-brief pair of essays nevertheless is a righteous and needed accusation against the publishing industry and the writers and readers who feed from it.
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Roseline Mgbodichinma is mourning her aunt. In her beautiful essay for thexylom@journa.host, she writes about grief, the need for witnesses in death, and a Nigerian vegetable soup called egburegbu, the translation of which is “cut” or “kill.”
“[My aunt] loved egburegbu and on the days we cooked it, she would sit cross-legged in the kitchen, patiently waiting for a serving of her favourite soup. This is how I choose to remember her, as someone who loved without caring about the origins of the life around her, or how it will all end.”
https://www.thexylom.com/post/perspective-grief-grows-like-ugu
#Bereavement #Grief #Death #Essays #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
10/15
The Xylom · Perspective: Grief Grows, Like Ugu
I’ve finished revamping the essays page on my website. Now you can find a selection of my travel articles, book reviews, SF criticism, and newsletter essays all in one place.
elikpwilliam.com/essays/
#essays #journalism #bookreviews
#futurism #scifi #travel #politics
Essays | A Selection of Writin...
Eli K.P. William · Essays | A Selection of Writings by Eli K.P. WilliamLinks to a selection of essays written by author and translator Eli K.P. William for a variety of publications. Includes book reviews, travelogues, and more
**Mini Essays - The Perfect Tool for Lifelong Learners**
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#Video length: eleven minutes and forty-two seconds.
Son, 13 years old, spotted this book I'm reading. Read the title out loud, and said "Step 1: Be African."
The kids are allright.
#books #Wainaina #essays #Africa
(For anyone unfamiliar, the essay that the title of the book is from is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on pulling out all of the sterotypes when writing about Africa. It is fantastic.)