What are you reading/want to read ?

LU344928 · 2022-03-07 06:19:01

golinux wrote:

Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-lxb_ZleSQ

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-03-07 09:34:41

Debunking mRNA Vaccine Misconceptions—An Overview for Medical Professionals

golinux · 2022-03-07 17:06:54

@HoaS . . . You should know by now that "Medical Professionals" can kiss my skinny behind.

You weren't around when Trust Us, We're Experts! was written.

And there you have it . . .

[edit] I thought sure that was written in the mid-20th century . . .

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-03-07 17:09:13

That's fine golinux, I was just sharing what I was reading :-)

EDIT: to stay on topic:

Advanced Editing on UNIX by Brian W. Kernighan.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2022-03-07 17:15:28)

golinux · 2022-03-07 17:16:55

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

That's fine golinux, I was just sharing what I was reading :-)

Fair enough . . . I don't know how you find time to read so much or why you'd want to. But that's another conversation . . .

LU344928 · 2022-03-08 09:10:25

golinux wrote:

. . . Trust Us, We're Experts

Indeed. As Bud Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said, "The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful."

amaro · 2022-03-09 14:46:07

Excellent article, written 10 years ago, very relevant

Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks

The human brain, it is said, is the most complex object in the known universe. That a part of it “lights up” on an fMRI scan does not mean the rest is inactive; nor is it obvious what any such lighting-up indicates; nor is it straightforward to infer general lessons about life from experiments conducted under highly artificial conditions. Nor do we have the faintest clue about the biggest mystery of all – how does a lump of wet grey matter produce the conscious experience you are having right now, reading this paragraph? How come the brain gives rise to the mind? No one knows.
So, instead, here is a recipe for writing a hit popular brain book. You start each chapter with a pat anecdote about an individual’s professional or entrepreneurial success, or narrow escape from peril. You then mine the neuroscientific research for an apparently relevant specific result and narrate the experiment, perhaps interviewing the scientist involved and describing his hair. You then climax in a fit of premature extrapolation, inferring from the scientific result a calming bromide about what it is to function optimally as a modern human being. Voilà, a laboratory-sanctioned Big Idea in digestible narrative form. This is what the psychologist Christopher Chabris has named the “story-study-lesson” model, perhaps first perfected by one Malcolm Gladwell. A series of these threesomes may be packaged into a book, and then resold again and again as a stand-up act on the wonderfully lucrative corporate lecture circuit.

https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategori … robollocks

andyprough · 2022-03-09 16:05:44

amaro wrote:

You then climax in a fit of premature extrapolation

Oh! A bit of good old smut writing. This thread has really been needing a strong pivot into erotica literature.

vlax · 2022-03-14 14:05:49

Mancuso, Stefano - The revolutionary genius of plants : a new understanding of plant intelligence and behavior https://www.worldcat.org/title/revoluti … 1082438526
Lupi and Posavec - Dear data https://www.worldcat.org/title/dear-dat … 1126351174
Vallejo, Irene - El infinito en un junco : la invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo https://www.worldcat.org/title/infinito … 1258124778

xinomilo · 2022-03-19 17:31:19

Vera Figner - Night Over Russia (a translation from germanl "Nacht über Rußland")
(reading russian books before the "free" world starts burning them).

hevidevi · 2022-03-20 08:53:52

Aesops Fables

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363 … p-s-fables

Camtaf · 2022-03-20 09:36:01

Just picked up & re read my copy of Into The Core - it's all about Tiny Core Linux & how it works.

hevidevi · 2022-03-23 14:01:29

A Little Book In C Major by H.L. Mencken

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-03-30 16:59:12

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M R James. The collection includes The Mezzotint and "Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad", both of which were recent BBC productions. I had the pleasure of transporting a freaky doll's head (in clear plastic wrapping, no less) for the latter film. Scary.

tylerdurden · 2022-04-01 22:39:31

Currently reading GNU Screen User's Manual because RTFM. Though to be honest I slightly prefer the abridged version over here.

hevidevi · 2022-04-08 14:35:43

COVID-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab (Author), Thierry Malleret (Author).

"COVID-19: The Great Reset" is a guide for anyone who wants to understand how COVID-19 disrupted our social and economic systems, and what changes will be needed to create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward. Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and Thierry Malleret, founder of the Monthly Barometer, explore what the root causes of these crisis were, and why they lead to a need for a Great Reset.Theirs is a worrying, yet hopeful analysis. COVID-19 has created a great disruptive reset of our global social, economic, and political systems. But the power of human beings lies in being foresighted and having the ingenuity, at least to a certain extent, to take their destiny into their hands and to plan for a better future. This is the purpose of this book: to shake up and to show the deficiencies which were manifest in our global system, even before COVID broke out."Erudite, thought-provoking and plausible" -- Hans van Leeuwen, Australian Financial Review (Australia)"The book looks ahead to what the post-coronavirus world could look like barely four months after the outbreak was first declared a pandemic" -- Sam Meredith, CNBC (USA) "The message that the pandemic is not only a crisis of enormous proportions, but that it also provides an opportunity for humanity to reflect on how it can do things differently, is important and merits reflection"-- Ricardo Avila, Portafolio (Colombia) "A call for political change in the post-pandemic world"-- Ivonne Martinez, La Razon (Mexico)"History has shown, the book argues, that pandemics are a force for radical and lasting change"-- Mustafa Alrawi, The National (UAE)

hevidevi · 2022-04-08 14:45:12

Want to read, plus many other books written by Ukrainian Nationalists or so called Nazis that the free world is seemingly propping up against Russia.

https://www.amazon.com/Valhalla-Express … 3906?psc=1

His visions and dreams were about fairness and justice for everyone. However, the everyday corruption and foreign propaganda made it infeasible. The author's story develops in the rapid and twisted way bringing his life intact with the spin of the events in modern Ukraine. From early romantic nationalist activities and rallies, his dreams start living during the Maidan and character tempered in the battles of the Russian-Ukrainian war. So join the ride on Valhalla Express through the exciting and dangerous years of callsign “Woland" life. Valhalla Express THE MAIDAN UKRAINIAN ALTERNATIVE PATRIOT OF UKRAINE THE MEN FROM THE NORTHERN CAPITAL REVOLUTION RIGHT SECTOR “THE NORTH” THE WAR THE ASSAULT OF MARIUPOL ILOVAIS’K SHYROKYNE VILLAGE

golinux · 2022-04-09 02:47:40

I would have actually enjoyed American history class if this had been the guide. No such luck as the book hadn't been written yet!
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

amaro · 2022-04-10 16:52:26

Have just finished 'General's daughter', Nelson DeMille.
Excellent military detective novel.
Lots of suspects, lots of good dialog, plus some very clever observations from the two main characters regarding both professional and personal relationships.

"It’s a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down."

There is a movie based on the book starring Travolta but it does not match the book's quality.

p.s. it's for 18+ readers because of the details of the private life of the victim.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-04-16 10:00:32

The Hardness of the Lemmings Game, or Oh no, more NP-Completeness Proofs

hevidevi · 2022-05-31 14:35:45

some good reading here if you are interested in anarcho primitivism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism

https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchoprimiti … ding_list/

Ogis1975 · 2022-06-01 12:21:42

hevidevi wrote:

some good reading here if you are interested in anarcho primitivism,
https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchoprimiti … ding_list/

Thanks for share this!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-06-01 14:03:16

Certificate Transparency data is used to compromise WordPress before installation

Bloody WordPress

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-06-10 16:25:10

Nice article on HTML:

http://lofi.limo/blog/write-html-right

Mark-up is for wimps!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-07-09 21:33:03

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds. An interesting story with some nice twists and a satisfying ending.

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