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I probably will get back to this one day, but AI/machine learning/algorithm discourse is so demoralizing and discouraging to me that the idea of revisiting this book right now is really too much. But maybe one day.

@drazisil@social.drazisil.com Oh you mean the "antilibrary" concept? I think it's referencing the following: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilibrary

Another Maggie Appleton antilibrary find. Considering that I have very poor opinions about the place of advertisements in society, let alone digital spaces, this seems right up my alley. I think. I hope? We shall see. Throwing on the TBR pile!

Found in Maggie Appleton's antilibrary and thought I should add it to my own antilibrary (aka TBR shelf). I am either going to love or hate this book. Maybe both. Originally published in English with the title "Seeing Like A State."

Found in Maggie Appleton's antilibrary and it looks really good so I'm adding it to my own antilibrary (aka TBR shelf).

@vmousseau This book sounds intensely interesting.

It is the early 1600s, and Johannes Kepler's mother is accused of witchcraft. I love historical fiction. Apparently this was on CBC Canada Reads last year, but I only found out about it very recently.

Part of the historical background of this story is that "between 1625 and 1631, under the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, the Holy Roman Empire saw one of the biggest mass trials in European history, with an estimated 900 people executed in the Würzburg witch trials." (From wikipédia)

This just floated across my feed and it looks really interesting. Throwing it on the TBR.

The Earth is a dynamic planet of shifting tectonic plates that is responsive to change, particularly when there is a dramatic climate transition. We know that at the end of the last Ice Age, as the great glaciers disappeared, the release in pressure allowed the crust beneath to bounce back. At the same time, staggering volumes of melt water poured into the ocean basins, warping and bending the crust around their margins. The resulting tossing and turning provoked a huge resurgence in volcanic activity, seismic shocks, and monstrous landslides -- the last both above the waves and below. The frightening truth is that temperature rises expected this century are in line with those at the end of the Ice Age. All the signs, warns geophysical hazard specialist Bill McGuire, are that unmitigated climate change due to human activities could bring about a comparable response.

@battlepoet I don't think so! But I imagine a lot of the themes and frameworks might cross-pollinate, you know?

Ça commence très fort!