continuing with the theme of technology reads, this feels like a decent follow-up to supremacy. another one that’s remained unread on my shelves for way too long.
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The Owl Handbook by John Shewey, 2025
Charismatic, intriguing, and misunderstood: The Owl Handbook provides a beautifully photographed, thoughtfully researched, and accessible guide to these complex, captivating creatures.
Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt
“Love, but be careful what you love,” the Roman African philosopher Saint Augustine wrote in the final years of the fourth century. We are, in some deep sense, what we love — we become it as much as it becomes us, beckoned from our myriad conscious and unconscious longings, despairs, and patterned desires.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/02/25/love-and-saint-augustine-hannah-arendt/
Anger and Forgiveness Resentment, Generosity, Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/05/03/martha-nussbaum-anger-and-forgiveness/
![Nussbaum, who has previously examined the intelligence of the emotions, argues that despite anger’s long cultural history of being seen as morally justifiable and as a useful signal that wrongdoing has taken place, it is a normatively faulty response that masks deeper, more difficult emotions and stands in the way of resolving them. Consequently, forgiveness — which Nussbaum defines as “a change of heart on the part of the victim, who gives up anger and resentment in response to the offender’s confession and contrition” — is also warped into a transactional proposition wherein the wrongdoer must earn, through confession and apology, the wronged person’s morally superior grace.
N. outlines the core characteristics and paradoxes of anger:
"Anger is an unusually complex emotion, since it involves both pain and pleasure [because] the prospect of retribution is pleasant… Anger also involves a double reference—to a person or people and to an act… The focus of anger is an act imputed to the target, which is taken to be a wrongful damage.
Injuries may be the focus in grief as well. But whereas grief focuses on the loss or damage itself, and lacks a target (unless it is the lost person, as in “I am grieving for so-and-so”), anger starts with the act that inflicted the damage, seeing it as intentionally inflicted by the target — and then, as a result, one becomes angry, and one’s anger is aimed at the target. Anger, then, requires causal thinking, and some grasp of right and wrong."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/413/528/763/942/654/original/f5e4f606c17f83b1.png "Nussbaum, who has previously examined the intelligence of the emotions, argues that despite anger’s long cultural history of being seen as morally justifiable and as a useful signal that wrongdoing has taken place, it is a normatively faulty response that masks deeper, more difficult emotions and stands in the way of resolving them. Consequently, forgiveness — which Nussbaum defines as “a change of heart on the part of the victim, who gives up anger and resentment in response to the offender’s confession and contrition” — is also warped into a transactional proposition wherein the wrongdoer must earn, through confession and apology, the wronged person’s morally superior grace.
N. outlines the core characteristics and paradoxes of anger:
\"Anger is an unusually complex emotion, since it involves both pain and pleasure [because] the prospect of retribution is pleasant… Anger also involves a double reference—to a person or people and to an act… The focus of anger is an act imputed to the target, which is taken to be a wrongful damage.
Injuries may be the focus in grief as well. But whereas grief focuses on the loss or damage itself, and lacks a target (unless it is the lost person, as in “I am grieving for so-and-so”), anger starts with the act that inflicted the damage, seeing it as intentionally inflicted by the target — and then, as a result, one becomes angry, and one’s anger is aimed at the target. Anger, then, requires causal thinking, and some grasp of right and wrong.\"")
A rom-com with a twist and a dystopian thriller: April's best books
By Claire Nichols, Kate Evans, Nicola Heath, Declan Fry, and Rosie Ofori Ward
There's a confronting work of non-fiction by an award-winning Australian writer, a smart rom-com set in Brexit-era London for fans of Dolly Alderton and a supernatural thriller that will leave you gasping in this month's ABC Arts recommendations.
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ABC News · What should I read next? April's best books include exciting new work by Kate Grenville and Andrea Goldsmith
'supremacy' by parmy olson is well-researched, relevant, and surprisingly breathless for a nonfiction book.
as such, her writing – especially in the later chapters – mirrored the fast pace of AI development, which i guess was the point. it felt like i inhaled them.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/supremacy-ai-chatgpt-and-the-race-that-will-change-the-world/
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Why Becoming an Author Is Your Next Best Leadership Move
"Your story is your strongest asset. Use it as a tool along your entrepreneurial journey."
https://www.inc.com/entrepreneurs-organization/why-becoming-an-author-is-your-next-best-leadership-move/91179145
The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority
https://www.tilley.blog/the-falsehood-of-authorship-as-authority/
"The gifting of authority [.] is thrown on the backs of anyone fortunate enough to get through the maze of accomplishing a book deal. This is not a promise of authority"
Inc · Why Becoming an Author Is Your Next Best Leadership MoveYour story is your strongest asset. Use it as a tool on your entrepreneurial journey. Here is why every entrepreneur should write a book.
Cutter Wood: Find the Thing No One Wants To Talk About https://www.writersdigest.com/cutter-wood-find-the-thing-no-one-wants-to-talk-about #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #WriteBetterNonfiction #AuthorSpotlightSeries #sciencenonfiction #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #BeInspired #Interviews #nonfiction
Writer's Digest · Cutter Wood: Find the Thing No One Wants To Talk AboutAuthor Cutter Wood discusses how the pandemic drove home the importance of the subject around his new nonfction book, Earthly Materials.
“Uma vindicação dos direitos da mulher”, de Mary Wollstonecraft (27 de Abril de 1759 — 10 de Setembro de 1797), tradução Elisabete M. de Sousa, prefácio de Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira, Antígona - Editores Refractários, Lisboa, 2017.
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Fahrenheit-182 (
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A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.
This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best...
Everyday Watercolor Seashores: A Modern Guide to Painting Shells, Creatures, and Beaches Step by Step by Jenna Rainey, 2024
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THE SEARCH FOR A FORGOTTEN ACTIVIST—Marty Goddard, pioneer of the modern forensic “rape kit”—takes a deep dive into the vagaries of the US justice system and the many ways it grinds down the most vulnerable, including Ms. Goddard herself. A MINUS
Barnes & NobleThe Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story|PaperbackMarty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool—a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity."Astonishing ....
Just finished Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, which of course was the inspiration for the hit Broadway show. Truly a fascinating life, where sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. It makes one wonder what might have happened had Hamilton's life not been cut short.
This quote stood out to me:
"His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself." It was like he had a crystal ball.
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- Rot as resistance
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Longreads · The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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.
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden, 2017
In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen.
“Erro Extremo III”, Miguel Tamen, Tinta da China, 2025.
“Depois de dois volumes anteriores com o mesmo título, nestes 90 breves ensaios Miguel Tamen dá continuidade a uma espécie de saga de análise do mundo, em que ângulos outrora mortos para nós ganham uma vida heterodoxa.”
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society 2nd Edition, by Graham A. Colditz (Editor), 2016
The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society was published in 2007 and received a 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Booklist. It served as a general, non-technical resource focusing on cancer from the perspective of the social and behavioral sciences, exploring social and economic impacts...
**Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling**
Matthew Cantor
“_In his amusing and enlightening new book, Gabe Henry traces the history of these efforts, beginning with a 12th-century monk named Orrmin, continuing through the beginnings of American English and the movement’s 19th-century heyday, finally arriving at textspeak._”
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The Guardian · Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling
**People Turn to Conspiracy Theories in a Subconscious Quest to Feel Like they ‘Matter’, Research Suggests**
“_The science of psychology reveals that people’s judgments and beliefs are strongly guided by their motivations, and because conspiracy narratives make people feel significant and special and often offer hope for a better future, they tend to be taken seriously by ‘significance-deprived’ audiences exposed to them._”
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Taylor & Francis Newsroom · People Turn to Conspiracy Theories in a Subconscious Quest to Feel Like they ‘Matter’, Research Suggests - Taylor & Francis NewsroomWhile all people are innately driven to find meaning in their lives, this subconscious desire pulls some people to conspiracy theories and dangerous belief systems. After an extensive review of psychological research, renowned social psychologist Arie Kruglanski and journalist Dan Raviv show how people’s need for ‘significance’ propels our actions, governs our feelings, and dominates […]