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- grafician2
The Culture series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu…
(really hope we will get this into a film/series in the future, as this universe is fascinating - Star Trek comes close, but not close enough)
- Selfish cunt died too soon.
I think Amazon have the rights and are making a series, no?Nairn - Altho when I read the Hydrogen Sonata last year (after having been an IMB fan for decades) I felt I'd read much of it before. Not bad, just more of the sameNairn
- I'm now wondering whether Bezos got the rights to make a TV series on the Culture as a billionnaire fuck you to Musk.Nairn
- For others, more info on the Culture itself as an advanced SF society: https://en.wikipedia…grafician
- I'd love to see the culture on the screen.thumb_screws
- Selfish cunt died too soon.
- dorfsman2
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
by Ece Temelkuranhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/s…
Highly recommended.
- e-wo2
So good I now read it once a year. You might think Elizabeth Gilbert is corny, but she has a gift for bypassing creative blocks.
- _niko2
just finished this, found it quite helpful, started running every morning and started procrastibnating a lot less
- also, I thought we had a thread for these self-help sort of books but can't find it._niko
- Book threads are over the place. Of the day don’t seem right.MrT
- agree, I did some more digging and this was the thread i was thinking about: https://www.qbn.com/…_niko
- I read a lot, not self help though (maybe that’s the problem lols). We should have a Good Reads thread, if only to fuck with Zuck a bit.MrT
- neverscared1
- ah wrong thread.neverscared
- TOON TOON TOON TOON TOON!
That's one of those pubs you only go to once, usually entirely accidentally.Nairn
- thumb_screws0
Sing Backwards and Weep - A Memoir | Mark Lanegan
- Salarrue5
The Power of Lo—TEK
A global exploration of nature-based technologyby Julia Watson
- Salarrue1
Technologies of Speculation
The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society
In his new book, Sun-ha Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation
https://nyupress.org/97814798602…
- utopian2
Do You Compute?
Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug 1950-1999
- Bluejam3
"It’s too late for this year’s Booker shortlist but Pat Sharp has written a book in which he inserts himself into history, Forrest Gump-style"
Pat Sharp and Oasis v Blur ...
- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- Ha! That's awesome. Just as real as anything these days.toemaas
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- grafician-2
mostly art...
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- grafician1
Kobi Benezri & Sophie Lovell / Phaidon / Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible / Book / 2011
- grafician-1
if you're into book design
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