2026-10-28T03:20:54Z https://nostr.now ✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 https://nostr.now/npub1460vhs3g3trtxdj5etzxt42kj2whhrkupmzx5q6d7wufye6v8emqtplvjv https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/accounts/avatars/115/946/809/535/308/266/original/1e0b3ddebd9be455.jpeg https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/accounts/avatars/115/946/809/535/308/266/original/1e0b3ddebd9be455.jpeg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs24hsqajgtzz89ktxt9tzcnfgvkdp9zuwk92s7z2rthstf8cvxp7szyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vw5vp50 📚️ Cormac McCarthy’s Neoliberalism<br/>A Breakdown in Mercantile Ethics<br/><br/>&#34;The contributors explore how McCarthy’s fictions—often set against vast, barren landscapes—reflect the predatory logic of neoliberal capitalism, marked by economic inequality, environmental degradation, and social upheaval.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://utpress.org/9781621909378/cormac-mccarthys-neoliberalism/">https://utpress.org/9781621909378/cormac-mccarthys-neoliberalism/</a><br/><br/>#Essays #Literature #Criticism #Politics #PoliticalScience #CormacMcCarthy #Neoliberalism #Ethics #Reading #UniversityPress #Fiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon 2026-10-09T16:33:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs20tckcgtuzgp26zgh67rdjzxx6xdrxrh5d7p05sqwjnp4zppraqqzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vlhhsea 📚️ 🐋 Melville&#39;s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Philosophical Perspectives <br/><br/>&#34;The wide-ranging set of essays approach the issue of significance in Moby-Dick in relation to German idealism, American transcendentalism, and to the thinkers (Nietzsche, Heidegger) who rebelled against idealism.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/melvilles-moby-dick-or-the-whale-9780197633892">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/melvilles-moby-dick-or-the-whale-9780197633892</a><br/><br/>#Essays #Philosophy #Literature #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Book #Books #Bookstodon 2026-10-04T15:06:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvl0q57qqyhm6apsq35ax60zcxjanlrapc5kfsvu2jgy23t3avapgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v4lfyrh 🛢️ 🇺🇸 <br/><br/>#Oil #Rationing #Inflation #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #FT #News<br/> <img src="https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/117/304/053/117/312/257/original/996af777292341b1.png"> <br/> 2026-09-20T15:25:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgyspyl00rdf9nykr4lqrf5xpyn28nes8zvv0y6m3yrn3u6yjf2zgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vt8gt4k 🇺🇸 <br/><br/>&#34;Pure Americanism&#34;: World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan <br/><br/>&#34;Digitizing tens of millions of military records and reconstructing the national draft lottery, we demonstrate the causal impact of military service in fueling the Klan&#39;s rise.&#34;<br/><br/>Ang, D. &amp; Chinoy, S. &#34;Pure Americanism&#34;: World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan. (2026). <a href="https://ang.scholars.harvard.edu/publication/pure-americanism-world-war-i-and-rise-ku-klux-klan">https://ang.scholars.harvard.edu/publication/pure-americanism-world-war-i-and-rise-ku-klux-klan</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Research #Academia 2026-09-17T17:00:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw4x7xpsn8y2ana2h73z3kftcmtw2zzpg9htkh0zm0k80pya5h47gzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8va8t8a8 📚️ 🇺🇸 <br/><br/>Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States <br/><br/>&#34;In his new book, Williams reveals the truth about the Confederacy by unraveling its myths and uncovering its perilous political tactics, irate ideologies, reckless brand of warfare, impotent governance, and enduring commitment to slavery.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a 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#Bookstodon 2026-09-12T17:07:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxnn3xpg00psnhea8eaq5szqec57ujsf4pnu8znutchsr0r0l7awczyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vh3n86s 📚️ 🇺🇸 <br/><br/>Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States<br/><br/>&#34;Murphy argues that the rapid spread of slavery in the South during the 1820s and ’30s depended significantly upon southern banks’ willingness to financialize enslaved lives, with the use of enslaved individuals as loan collateral proving central to these financial relationships.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo190178034.html">https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo190178034.html</a><br/><br/>#Reading #UniversityPress #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Economics #Economy #Finance #Banking 2026-09-07T19:00:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv03458t5hl2ru2twr62cssstkee67xs4tzyrpp9uch999n0d6j6czyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vjkkcem 📚️ 🇺🇸 <br/><br/>Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market<br/><br/>&#34;Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the “peculiar institution” in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674005396">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674005396</a><br/><br/>#Reading #UniversityPress #Nonfiction #History #Histodons #Slavery #Capitalism #Racism #AntebellumSouth #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Book #Books #Bookstodon 2026-09-01T19:32:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspl6tnns7d9rzkpxsu4hy76puauaazn0ycxqnepls5td7ndf5p94szyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vswqlcs 📚️ <br/><br/>A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought<br/><br/>&#34;In this illuminating book, Jan-Werner Müller traces for the first time the permutations of Schmitt’s ideas after the Second World War and relates them to broader political developments in Europe.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300196498/a-dangerous-mind/">https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300196498/a-dangerous-mind/</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #Politics #Philosophy #PoliticalScience #ThirdReich #Europe #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon 2026-08-31T13:18:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8l5e30gn58a5e8uuv2asylcxwtw7gh66x5sqassa9v425u4xhxvszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vl9hm2f 📚️<br/><br/>The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought <br/><br/>&#34;The chapters examine the theological, ethical, and political issues connected with the gift and with the fate of the Canaanites, focusing on classical Jewish texts and major Jewish commentators, legal thinkers, and philosophers from ancient times to the present.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199959808.001.0001">https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199959808.001.0001</a><br/><br/>#Reading #History #History #Bible #Theology #Politics #Ethics #UniversityPress #OUP #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon 2026-08-31T13:01:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs98zj5xz8akxa7rtq2gjx3lh5csp2fs8nle3087umzegqd658wddczyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vtkgakp On this day in A.D. 1770 German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born. <br/><br/>#History #Histodons #OTD #OnThisDay #BOTD #Philosophy #Germany #Europe 2026-08-27T16:28:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsycg34cfgm545rv74nr6dr8mtxft05dqtf8unxyle895a4ypulfnszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vw9v03c 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📖 <br/><br/>Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–1720<br/><br/>&#34;It examines slavery at English sites in tropical zones across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and argues that a variety of factors – epidemiology, slave majorities, European rivalries, and the power of indigenous polities – made the seventeenth-century English tropical empire particularly fragile, creating a model of empire in the tropics that was distinct from other English colonizations.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108622288">https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108622288</a><br/><br/>#Reading #Nonfiction #UniversityPress #History #Histodons #Slavery #Imperialism #Colonisation #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky 2026-08-26T14:12:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8dugnyl5pv2en58p2ng97jgmqla0vdgag45ht3pdhevwvg2kl4kszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vnx576f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrgaja0pnls47z9gk7exfac78zhw842eezh328ek268t8xsdvuy4ggetxet'>nevent1q…txet</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In response to your question, it does not look like it: <br/><br/><a 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rising demand from heatwaves, economic growth, and broader energy security concerns."<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://globalenergymonitor.org/article/proposed-increase-coal-mine-capacity-out-step-market-demand">https://globalenergymonitor.org/article/proposed-increase-coal-mine-capacity-out-step-market-demand</a><br/><br/>#Data #Energy #Coal #Mining #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #India #Asia </blockquote> 2026-08-13T20:24:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdf4zya2d9kz4lxl09grkuglz6lf8ja2gyz4q8nt5n4wjg844huwgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v73hxuw 🇮🇳 <br/><br/>India Plans To Increase Growth In Its Coal Mining Capacity<br/><br/>&#34;The states of Jharkhand and Odisha accounted for much of this growth, doubling proposals for new coal mines as India&#39;s Ministry of Coal pursues an ambitious target of nearly 1.15 billion tonnes of coal production in fiscal year 2025–26 to meet rising demand from heatwaves, economic growth, and broader energy security concerns.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://globalenergymonitor.org/article/proposed-increase-coal-mine-capacity-out-step-market-demand">https://globalenergymonitor.org/article/proposed-increase-coal-mine-capacity-out-step-market-demand</a><br/><br/>#Data #Energy #Coal #Mining #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #India #Asia 2026-08-13T16:51:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw30vz474v62a7z5xhy3vj9elxxss3svlkuxqh89yv37qdtm0tamszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vlcu4yh Thucydides the perspicacious<br/><br/>&#34;Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/thucydides-account-of-war-is-as-timely-as-it-is-misunderstood">https://aeon.co/essays/thucydides-account-of-war-is-as-timely-as-it-is-misunderstood</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #War #Military #Empire #Politics #Philosophy #Thucydides #Essay #LongReads 2026-08-03T20:41:35Z 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Page URL: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastern_Roman_Empire_565_CE.svg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastern_Roman_Empire_565_CE.svg</a><br/> <img src="https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/117/022/527/197/761/953/original/b590a613a269fc0d.png"> <br/> 2026-08-01T22:12:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf2qz5553ukfwuj8uy8czu6ggy86rxknx9jswdhju3czupgeu7vfqzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v59tt2q RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Bad2pay/117020036704010561">https://mastodon.social/@Bad2pay/117020036704010561</a><br/><br/>The Flying Dutchman?<br/><br/>#Art #Image #Sailing #Ship #History<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1d9twj9myue662n8ctrmp3j4jda9ecr7ld765n6kprv54mtsvapgseejdhu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1d9t…jdhu</a></span><br/> </div> #art<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/020/036/046/431/474/original/3f39b6a8c52cb14a.jpg"> <br/> </blockquote> 2026-08-01T11:38:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2rke06v056emkgtr0gpghw2mfw6cwkkwrdap8ceenaprcc0j3ydqzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vqt7sqq 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸 📖 <br/><br/>The Character of Freedom: The Scottish Enlightenment and American Slavery<br/><br/>&#34;An original and deeply researched look at how Scottish Enlightenment ideals interacted with religious philosophy to inform and inspire abolitionists and enslavers alike in the founding of the American republic.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700642281/">https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700642281/</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #Scotland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Slavery #Liberalism #Politics #Philosophy #Race #Ethnicity #UniversityPress #Academia #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky 2026-07-29T19:07:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvavxcy88q46tkrwlsqa2vmu7kwetw2lvtsvh6kzqm8laplph0rwgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v3xvm2f Watch the Throne: Uncovering three new kings of Assyria<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/09/watch-throne-uncovering-three-new-kings-assyria">https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/09/watch-throne-uncovering-three-new-kings-assyria</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #Assyria #NearEast #YaleUniversity #Research #Academia 2026-07-29T17:23:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszwxm3a6lz2mq273r39c82fkl0asg4rrtrsa5dwj74kuzf6cweljczyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vfj9ya3 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 <br/><br/>Two centuries on, experts unlock secrets of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden sailing chart<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/two-centuries-on-experts-unlock-secrets-of-red-sea-and-gulf-of-aden-sailing-chart/">https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/two-centuries-on-experts-unlock-secrets-of-red-sea-and-gulf-of-aden-sailing-chart/</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #RedSea #GulfOfAden #Sailing #Sea #Navigation #Geography 2026-07-25T15:38:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqlzph6dv79vw8fxxvhmuukm8p30g20d84nh66cq5rafswp2yxmuszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vw05esk 📖 <br/><br/>The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli<br/><br/>&#34;Download for free&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232</a><br/><br/>#ProjectGutenberg #Free #Reading #Ebook #Ebooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #History #Histodons #Politics #Philosophy #Ethics 2026-07-25T11:52:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvrnp5kdzahm36xvngc7kzqp8y5sh23wekj65uvda60v8w9f7vtngzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vvg0yc3 It is jarring to read to how Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes about inequality, its consequences for the psychological wellbeing of humans in his philosophical writings; and then on the other hand, sends his own five biological children to an orphanage to be brought up. <br/><br/>#Reading #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Psychology #History #Rousseau #Biography 2026-07-03T16:55:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8actexxqj82ezgxgwv7fy6ewcge59yrleqsme8w795380wgm2w6qzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v5ytaya 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 <br/><br/>18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant</a><br/><br/>#Philosophy #Kant #ImmanuelKant #German #Germany 2026-07-03T11:33:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvgm6csekjq7hhv70eq7xg9f8sal2ujkxktfq2p6p8u8rnswll00czyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vn983cu 📖 📖 📖<br/><br/>I am trying to a get through a #philosophy #book, and it is tough going. Between comprehension and taking written notes I am unable to zoom through it with my brains turned off. <br/><br/>#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky 2026-07-02T17:09:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstns8apptsghajjupky7kzt5epa2yrn05567hfkv0tq2rz69hks6gzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vf043q0 🇬🇷 📖 🇯🇵 🇬🇷 📖 🇯🇵 <br/><br/>Japan and Ancient Greece: Culture and Possession <br/><br/>&#34;In this groundbreaking study - translated into English for the first time - Michael Lucken analyses the manifold ways in which Japan has adopted and engaged with ancient Greece in the period from the Meiji restoration to the present&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009528658">https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009528658</a><br/><br/>#Philosophy #Reading #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Ancient #History #Histodons #Culture #Asia #Japan #Greece #Europe #Literature 2026-07-01T14:42:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2dl2ejawpx6dv2w3t8w7uy609gpc09uykfmexlwlnv3sf6qnf82czyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vavfmr5 🐦️ 📸 🇮🇹 🐦️ 📸 🇮🇹 🐦️ 📸 🇮🇹 <br/><br/>Alcedo atthis - Riserve naturali e aree contigue della fascia fluviale del Po<br/><br/>#Photo #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Kingfisher #Birds #Hunting #Italy #Europe<br/><br/>#Image attribution: Luca Casale, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt</a>;, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alcedo_atthis_-_Riserve_naturali_e_aree_contigue_della_fascia_fluviale_del_Po.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/833/616/922/148/879/original/3f38844f16c0bd25.jpg"> <br/> 2026-06-29T13:32:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs03sqga5y82cx3as9trwl03vzjwrjeunvkwfxxrndrl45agqkpmfczyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vrs7j5m 🖥️ 🧪 🖥️ 🧪 🖥️ 🧪 <br/><br/>AI is eroding science’s foundations—we must act<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-views-of-europe-2026-6-ai-is-eroding-science-s-foundations-we-must-act/">https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-views-of-europe-2026-6-ai-is-eroding-science-s-foundations-we-must-act/</a><br/><br/>#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Science 2026-06-18T19:34:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsra3mxmhv8lfcv9gqgz9dvqxkc5clzn7u7zq7leu64kmalckje2lgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vcv3dth In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstwwxq85qwsd5fx0623gc8e0x5rxuqedfn3egm9sxkss0c7udk96q97u5rx'>nevent1q…u5rx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it is wider than just a parenting failure. I think it is a systematic failure both in schools and wider society precipitated in large part by the ubiquitous electronic screens that demand constant human attention. It is not called the &#39;attention economy&#39; for nothing. 2026-06-07T16:34:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0q8t65vjzv3ltzx3evdetua2qa4fr53d7v4rpt9hwh7n9vz0jqmqzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vzrfy5k 🎓 🎓 🎓 <br/><br/>Gen Zers are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://fortune.com/article/gen-z-college-students-struggling-to-read-books-professors-forced-to-rethink-standards-warn-of-anxiety-lack-of-workplace-prepardness/">https://fortune.com/article/gen-z-college-students-struggling-to-read-books-professors-forced-to-rethink-standards-warn-of-anxiety-lack-of-workplace-prepardness/</a><br/><br/>#University #College #Education #Learning #Reading #Books #MentalHealth #GenZ 2026-06-07T16:21:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8lvpfrt4zfg3dxtgx7492jg75mymca0cf0ad2kqvnnfeuahfpn2czyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vsz9976 📸 📸 📸 <br/><br/>The Blue Hour <br/><br/>#PublicDomain #Photography #Photo <br/><br/>#Image attribution: Giupa, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Hour_(233940639).jpeg"> .<br/> <img src="https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/702/337/172/887/329/original/7cb2eb1c7deb6f81.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-06-06T09:00:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv2a2m0qfnmvapzreqr6xl6qv7qz5flnrahsac5hzsuv3vj3qdh4qzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vva70m0 📚 🎥 📚 🎥 📚 🎥 <br/><br/>12 of the HARDEST Books Ever Written (and how they&#39;ll change you)<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=defE4aecMC8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=defE4aecMC8</a><br/><br/>#Video #Nonfiction #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon 2026-05-29T17:04:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszhj6sw5uefylvx4ruyst55k77gapn8jhxqkdv237hcj30g8yseuszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vhn6kp8 The Thucydides trap – how the Greek historian’s meaning was lost in translation<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/19/the-thucydides-trap-how-the-greek-historians-meaning-was-lost-in-translation">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/19/the-thucydides-trap-how-the-greek-historians-meaning-was-lost-in-translation</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #War #Thucydides #Translation #Philosophy 2026-05-23T13:08:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsveuf3smcvhhqv029qsgak0cdrk7p04q92v0ezu9kkwaucdj0jghczyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vv94dhm 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸<br/><br/>Spain just became one of Europe&#39;s cheapest power markets. Here is how.<br/><br/>&#34;How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes">https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes</a><br/><br/>#Spain #Energy #Power #Prices 2026-05-11T22:19:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg0czxjjduajmk87qy2j9z8dvzvy38uds28hzdvlnw76svz92xg0qzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vnq3rk0 🇺🇸 Enslaved Labor and the Confederacy: What We Gain by Looking Closer<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/enslaved-labor-and-the-confederacy">https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/enslaved-labor-and-the-confederacy</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #Slavery #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates #America 2026-05-04T15:01:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0cuv82nlan65phdsmmx6w8mh4dzp0ggjek0j3sy4arx3zeec86fszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vjzcjh7 🖥️ Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://dailynous.com/2026/04/29/illicit-use-ai-philosophers-refereeing-journals/">https://dailynous.com/2026/04/29/illicit-use-ai-philosophers-refereeing-journals/</a><br/><br/>#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Philosophy 2026-04-30T19:35:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszturd5hz7y98gmhcuqf79txmda9cfna58l8d5zvl5t0xp3f45zwgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vjhyq3x The Papers of Friedrich August von Hayek Now Accessible Online<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.hoover.org/news/papers-friedrich-august-von-hayek-now-accessible-online">https://www.hoover.org/news/papers-friedrich-august-von-hayek-now-accessible-online</a><br/><br/>#Digital #Online #Archive #Economics #Philosophy #Hayek 2026-04-26T11:46:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvgh569ew4cg56rf7m36xw8l0efs2rlnra2yur59qv5svc689ng6qzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v7zywya Thirty lines of the “Physica” of Empedocles found in a Cairo papyrus<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/04/20/thirty-lines-of-the-physica-of-empedocles-found-in-a-cairo-papyrus/">https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/04/20/thirty-lines-of-the-physica-of-empedocles-found-in-a-cairo-papyrus/</a><br/><br/>#Ancient #Philosophy 2026-04-26T11:44:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8jk0dqxsajt80mzn8dxv3c2hx6h8zpcynqyd048wdlx665yka5cqzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vswhntm 🖋️ 📸 Good morning.<br/><br/>#FountainPen #Writing #Photo #Photography #PublicDomain <br/><br/>#Image attribution: Bobdog, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power-of-words-by-antonio-litterio-creative-commons-attribution-share-alike-3-0.jpg"> .<br/> <img src="https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/464/301/031/121/222/original/62567b4e0fa7a417.jpg"> <br/> 2026-04-25T08:04:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgsy7dmkv6xl3lm740t47vknyytalh0qkwdn2jcc898u5swy0umnszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8v6y5gga 🇺🇸 📖 Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause<br/><br/>&#34;Catholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war&#39;s evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause">https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Catholic #LostCause #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon 2026-04-18T00:52:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspvmmaqeengdzz30yg0q3n0vs499839llzakcdxck34qmln2sza0czyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vtxxj56 🎙️ 📖 Offa: King of the Mercians<br/><br/>&#34;Professor Rory Naismith presents an authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/offa">https://newbooksnetwork.com/offa</a><br/><br/>#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Medieval #Nonfiction #Biography #Books #Bookstodon 2026-04-14T22:36:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf4450z7zwjwh9ycddlkp339hek7pktnnvcmrwtegmakqqxnfw44qzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vsd78g6 🇮🇹 🖋️ 📸 Good afternoon. <br/><br/>#UmbertoEco #Books #Bookstdon #PublicDomain #Photo #Photography <br/><br/>#Image attribution: Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italiaanse_schrijver_Umberto_Eco,_portret.jpg"> .<br/> <img src="https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/391/941/190/535/727/original/458a7650542f5ecf.jpg"> <br/> 2026-04-12T13:25:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx5r0xqasamvvuren8ctumkwnv0g09rsupuymdurtlfj2lwrnwftqzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vj360mv 📖 White Supremacy: A Short History<br/><br/>&#34;Focussing on the English-speaking world, he examines how ideas of whiteness connect to the history of slavery, Enlightenment thought, European colonialism, Social Darwinism and eugenics, fascism and capitalism. Far from being the natural order of things, Broich demonstrates that white supremacy is a brittle concept.&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/history/global-history/white-supremacy-short-history">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/history/global-history/white-supremacy-short-history</a><br/><br/>#Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #WhiteSupremacy #Academia 2026-03-30T23:03:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8uerr4nzcj03ep0h4n4f262jnpytk4kkvampp8r3x5qhr8lxvnsczyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vvw7ndy 🖥️ If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?<br/><br/>&#34;How will society be organized in a world in which machines generate most or all economic output and a few dozen techno-billionaires get to decide what share of the world’s resources – money, energy, minerals – should be allocated to further expand superhuman intelligence?&#34;<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/23/ai-how-will-we-be-fed">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/23/ai-how-will-we-be-fed</a><br/><br/>#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Economy #Economics 2026-02-24T19:10:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9thtmwpj5z762c5msnmf43ml897u979s3nhpwscf66sg0q2anrkszyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vvhm23e 📚 Reading Fights Algorithmic Control<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZO0wiPrbK4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZO0wiPrbK4</a><br/><br/>#Video #Reading #ReadingCommunity #Books #Bookstodon 2026-02-14T16:37:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqv7lt44ca2f6pfve4ayt62eve7als9ll3qlld3fpsr5gg9v9aqxgzyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vahs0wx 🖥️ Hallucinating with AI: Distributed Delusions and “AI Psychosis”<br/><br/>&#34;Nevertheless, in this paper, I argue that when viewed through the lens of distributed cognition theory, we can better see the dynamic ways in which inaccurate beliefs, distorted memories and self-narratives, and delusional thinking can emerge through human-AI interactions; extreme examples of which are sometimes referred to as “AI(-induced) psychosis”.&#34;<br/><br/>Osler, L. Hallucinating with AI: Distributed Delusions and “AI Psychosis”. Philos. Technol. 39, 30 (2026). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01034-3">https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01034-3</a>.<br/><br/>#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Philosophy #Academia 2026-02-14T15:08:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs23yss5xv4yhuyjfckzwnnjjvq4lqxenul2edw7vlr2nujdmxlf5czyzhfaj7z9z9vdvek2n9vgew426ff67uwms8vg6srfhem3yn8fsl8vkh4456 What &#39;banana republic&#39; means — and why its history matters<br/><br/>🔗 <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/what-banana-republic-means-and-why-its-history-matters/a-75593158">https://www.dw.com/en/what-banana-republic-means-and-why-its-history-matters/a-75593158</a><br/><br/>#History #Histodons #Culture 2026-01-30T19:58:59Z