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Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000 by M. García-Sancho, 2012
Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around #genomics.
BookOrbit
github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit
GitHub - bookorbit/bookorbit: BookOrbit: Your Reading Space
BookOrbit: Your Reading Space. Contribute to bookorbit/bookorbit development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, Stephanie Burgis
2025 romantic fantasy novella, second of its series. Margaret Lady Riven is on honeymoon with her vampire husband, at an inn in the middle of the Black Forest…RogerBW's Blog
"By contrast, the #GoogleBooks project largely used a patented non-destructive camera process to scan millions of #books borrowed from libraries and later returned. For #Anthropic, the faster speed and lower cost of the destructive process appears to have trumped any need for preserving the physical books themselves, hinting at the need for a cheap and easy solution in a highly competitive industry.
When asked about this process, #Claude itself offered a poignant response in a style culled from billions of pages of discarded text: “The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I’m still processing. It’s like being built from a #library’s ashes.”"
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant…
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
📚 💥 Anthropic Destroys Millions of Physical books
Oh you don't want people to read the truth.
No worries destroy the evidence.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant…
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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All four countries are better off economically in a major way and don’t have to do bad things such as sell #oil or force their population to procreate and consume more!
The #climate affected get a chance to not just survive but thrive!
Well, that is the context the uplifting #climatefiction #book “A New Faith”.
#bookstodon #books #novel #fiction #climatechange #climate #Norway #Russia #Canada #China
A New Faith
Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.TinJar
I'm saying he IS right, and I understand! 😂
@reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#ReadingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #AmReading
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon
UK readers! Your reminder that the Waterstones Preorder Offer runs until midnight tomorrow, and you can get 25% off selected upcoming titles via their website or app with the offer code SUMMER26 at the checkout.
The great selection includes The Riven Kingdom.
#books #Fantasy #SFF #EpicFantasy
A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anth…
#Anthropic is in the clear for training #Claude on millions of books without permission or payment. However, it's liable for obtaining many of those books illegally, and its settlement of those claims (about $3k/title) was approved by the court.
So far this decision only applies in the Northern District of California. But it breaks the ice and will (as lawyers say) be "persuasive but not binding" in other districts.
#Books #Copyright #FairUse #USLaw
Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved | TechCrunch
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.Kirsten Korosec (TechCrunch)
Good news for UK booklovers!
The Riven Kingdom is included in this week's Waterstones preorder offer - ending on Friday 24th July. Enter the offer code SUMMER26 at the checkout and get 25% off the RRP. Do check out the whole selection of great reads.
The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point.
HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20.
Preorder yours today: hyperscalebook.com
#tech #datacenters #generativeai #books #reading #climate
Hyperscale by Paris Marx
An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.hyperscalebook.com
Voracious reader, book collector, and scholar Ignacio Sánchez Prado writes about how he began collecting books when growing up in Mexico, and why it was and is so important to him to develop his working library. He takes an interesting look at the future or not of such libraries and of how they relate to scholarship.
#books #libraries #reading #bookstodon
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A Library on the Eve of Packing - Pittsburgh Review of Books
I hope a bibliophile like me can be forgiven to write an essay on the eve of my library being packed. Since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s 1931Pittsburgh Review of Books
What am I reading?
Nearly finished Matt Haig's 'How to Stop Time'. A bit similar to The Midnight Library, though a different story, with its flying about. Might try another of Matt's but am finding the wandering in place and time and prose a little tedious.
Next to read: 'Death Do they Part' by Jonathan Whitelaw, 3rd in the Parker Sisters' (Cosy) Mystery series. Something lighter after Matt's tome.
My own book 'A Question of Resistance' by Paul Smith, a time-slip novel is being reviewed by a book club in Northallerton & I am going to the club to answer questions and listen to their critique next week. 'Scared' doesn't do my trepidation justice!
An Immense World - Ed Yong
Enter a new dimension—the world as it is truly perceived by other animals
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.
edyong.me/an-immense-world #Books
Over on the blog, the latest updates on The Green Man's Debt, The Riven Kingdom, The Iron Code, as well as dates and places where and when I'll be talking to writers and fans about all these things and more.
julietemckenna.com/news-on-the…
News on The Green Man’s Debt, The Riven Kingdom and more!
I did say I was busy when I last posted an update … and very productively so. I’m very pleased to report The Green Man’s Debt is now written and edited with the invaluable assista…Juliet E. McKenna
Everything's more fun if it's a vice!😂
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#ReadingMemes #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek #Vice
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Books #Bookstodon
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Attached: 1 image "The Reader" by French artist Frédéric Forest 📚 https://fredericforest.com/ #Art #Drawing #BooksNatasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪 (LGBTQIA+ and Tech)
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training: theguardian.com/books/2026/jul…
'A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”.
The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow.'
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Google #Hachette #Elsevier #publishing #books #grift #theft
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’Emma Loffhagen (The Guardian)
Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds
by Dario Radley
Many stories from the Middle Ages never reached the present. A new study suggests the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time.
archaeologymag.com/2026/07/med…
Original article:
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art…
#books #literature #old_Manuscripts
Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds
A new study estimates 60% of medieval texts and over 95% of manuscripts were lost through centuries of copying and destruction.Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
#horror #fantasy #books #appalachia
The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the year 820 by a Persian mathematician named Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad — and the word algorithm comes from the Latinized version of his name
By Space Daily Editorial Team
spacedaily.com/d-the-word-alge…
Books about Algebra at PG:
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The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the year 820 by a Persian
Two of the most substantially used words in the current global vocabulary of mathematics and computing come from the same 9th-century Persian scholar working in the same Baghdad library across approximately the same twenty-year period between 813 and…Space Daily Editorial Team
Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary This Fourth of July govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2026/07/01…
They say this is a time "to reflect on the blessings of being a beacon of hope and democratic freedom."
Oh honey, the #AmericanEmpire has not been a beacon of anything for a good while now other than #imperialism, #warfare, #invasions, and toppling governments they disliked then enabling Right Wing dictatorships.
And before any of you exceptional gringos come to whine, read a fucking book or two.
Colonial ranting aside, you can also get the documents they mention via GovInfo. Need help? Ask your local librarian.
#America250 #GovDocs #USGovernment #books #reading #history
Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary This Fourth of July
The Fourth of July holiday is a profound time for our Nation to reflect on the blessings of being a beacon of hope and democratic freedom. As we mark an extraordinary milestone—America’s 250th anni…Government Book Talk
In the mood for Cozy Mysteries?
50+ authors are giving away their books for FREE* on BookFunnel!
bf.sophiemaddon.com/summerbing…
PS: Includes an excerpt of my new cozy mystery (with a sweet FF romance subplot and ND rep)!
#Books #bookstodon #freebooks #ebooks #IndieAuthor #cozyMysteries #CozyBooks #NoSpiceBooks #BookFunnel #MysteryBooks #mysteries #LGBTQ #WLW #CozyMysteryBooks
*with newsletter sign-up
Summer Binge!
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.bf.sophiemaddon.com
Today, my new book comes out, marking my official entry into publishing. Here after I'll put out a book every month.
I wrote this novella to reward those who supported #WindShortFilm but it took a life of its own since the main character, an old woman with social anxiety, has a lot to deal with. She has to coordinate the defense of her tight knit community when a coloniser invades.
Read a sample chapter.
ododopress.com/novellas/the-bl…
#solarpunk #books #bookstodon #writingcommunity #sff #scifi
The Blossoming of the Big Tree
A solarpunk novella about a grandmother who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades. Available in ebook, audiobook, and print.Ododo Press
Bans on #transgender athletes hurt us all.
In the cover story to our May/June 2026 issue, Jessica Luther explains why we must rethink #gender in sports altogether, based on four important books: texasobserver.org/trans-athlet…
#SCOTUS #books #sports #law #Pride
Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All
Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.Jessica Luther (The Texas Observer)
Silent time
Monowi, Nebraska, USA
#photography #library #books #old #vintage #monowi #Nebraska #rural #photooftheday
We read an entire scroll — without ever opening it
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end.
More information about the Herculaneum Papyrus Scrolls project:
www2.cs.uky.edu/dri/herculaneu…
#books #literature #old_Manuscripts
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667 has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.Vesuvius Challenge
I'm not generally a fan of short stories but this I like 😂
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#Bookwyrm #Bookstodon
What's your pet grammar peeve? That one rule you learned but everyone else still gets wrong?
#WritingCommunity #writing #AmWriting #reading #books
#Celebrity news is mostly stupid because, like us, most #celebrities are stupid. But a few, like us, are awesome
#DuaLipa you're fucking awesome
"Dua Lipa Opening Physical #Library for #Banned and #Censored #Books"
“Here you will find one hundred books that ask questions, or have been questioned. Some have been banned by #school districts for themes of #race or #sexuality. Others, written for #LGBTQIA+ readers, have been restricted from display"
consequence.net/2026/06/dua-li…
Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books
Dua Lipa, founder of the Service95 Book Club, has partnered with Livraria Lello to open a physical library in Porto, Portugal.Alex Young (Consequence)
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
Danny Bate on the Linguistic History of Our Alphabet
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Books about Linguistics at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…+
#books #literature #linguistics
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
“The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this co…Literary Hub
