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TFW you’re trying to balance your desire to recommend a long list of books on some subject with your distaste for the concept of a canon, and then realize that it’s probably OK because you don’t have enough power to impact what people actually read

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Book idea (high effort, dunno if I’ll do it): a survey of alternative computing systems in the style of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. What should I include other than smalltalk, colorforth, oberon, templeos, and menuet?

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It’s not that anonymity produces bad behavior, but that the absence of the ability to ignore or remove bad actors makes it difficult to prevent bad behavior, and persistent names assigned to persistent identities provides a convenient handle for dealing with individual bad actors.

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This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices ‘literary hypertext’. No, that’s just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; that’s why it’s hyper.

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Hot take: the most annoying thing about anti-spoiler behavior is that it protects the kind of bad, shallow media that spoilers actually affect from serious criticism until they have already been consumed.

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