@kottke #RequiredReading for the #resistance

Though, I curse my literacy, a bookworm isn't without her books. In these times, these are required reading. 😞

#Books #bannedbooks #requiredreading

Thanks to @fwred for pointing this @dsquareddigest out. #RequiredReading on what happened last night w/ Greece. https://medium.com/bull-market/greece-in-the-penalty-box-3fc32b42516e

Greece in the penalty box

ATTENTION SNAPCHAT DOUBTERS: http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-threat-to-google-facebook-tv-2015-2 #requiredreading from @nichcarlson h/t @conorsen

You think Snapchat is for sext...

@knittingknots2 At last in popular media some facts about government workers, spending, & the many confusions of business & government purposes. #RequiredReading

Death and Despair in China's Rustbelt #requiredreading on SOEs, capital allocation, and employment in China. http://bloom.bg/1RkLsCy

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Time for some #requiredreading. Have just begun Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny.”
Although as it was published in 2017, it now reads like a grim playbook for every lapse that created a second #TrumpWhiteHouse.

Required textbook for Superhero 101
#schoolsupplies #book #super #reading #requiredreading #prerequisite #yascifi #sciencefictionauthor #authorlife #school #readmorebooks #class #readersgonnaread #youngadultbooks #readerscommunity #schoollibrarylife #booknerd

Gifted article-real worth reading this. [NYTimes]: Harris Cracked Down on Violent Offenders; Showed Leniency on Less Serious Crime By Robert Draper (the esteemed-Robert Draper!)
Her record as a prosecutor navigating both paths has left her open to criticism that she either betrayed liberal ideals or prioritized them over law and order.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-prosecutor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk4.YPCH.kR_C5UeNVg0W&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp

#kamalharris #harris #requiredreading

This should be #RequiredReading in every school across Canada.

#EducationIsKey #Teachers

#Poetry #WaltWhitman #RequiredReading

Every so often, I remember to read Whitman and this is one I hit every time.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version

Dirk Baecker zum WissZeitVG, der Universität und ihrer ungewissen Zukunft. Unbedingt lesenswert. #requiredreading https://www.soziopolis.de/unter-falschem-namen.html

NASA's Webb telescope captures a supernova, DeSantis is gifted a "fascist" snowflake, and more in this week’s Required Reading.

#Art #RequiredReading

https://hyperallergic.com/808549/required-reading-621/

"You are not a parrot - And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this." Elizabeth Weil's in-depth article about Emily Bender (@emilymbender), #LLM s, humanity, #EthicalAI and some tech bros. Online at the Intelligencer, in print in the February 27, 2023 issue of "New York" Magazine.

#RequiredReading

#ChatGPT

#RequiredReading: More inclusive crayons, categorizing female muses as #artists, Tiktok-fueled "secret menus," and much more.

https://hyperallergic.com/803147/required-reading-618/

What is everyone reading today?

I started Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Boy this morning. I plan on having the 12 year old and 14 year old read it next. Should be required reading for all white kids.

@bookstodon @kidlit

#bookstodon #kidlit #nonfiction #race #requiredreading

Those should be #requiredreading every #christmas https://twitter.com/ghweldon/status/1076511104170369024?s=20&t=POPuAdG5sIK5Ujx4reOQ9A

Read The Cranky Hermit Daily ▸ today's top stories via @Martina@twitter.com @RalstonReports@twitter.com @CarolLeonnig@twitter.com @BleuZ00m@twitter.com @PaulRieckhoff@twitter.com @TheSpringChickn@twitter.com #jan6th #requiredreading https://crankyhermit.net/?edition_id=73a6ef20-82cd-11ed-9537-fa163e6ccaff

#MediaLit #RequiredReading: Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains by @georgelakoff & @gilduran https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

#LikeWar #digiURI #MediaLiteracy #ConCW

Landing on the Wrong Note
Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203901007

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, “Landing on the Wrong Note” goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

#jazz #music #criticaltheory #requiredreading #culturalpractice #dissonance #WyntonMarsalis #evolutionarypaths #thoughtprovoking #adventurous #newdirections #scholarship #improvisedmusic #socialchange #culturalchange #politicalchange