This glorious visual history of SF as told through cover designs from @grahamsleight and Adam Roberts is SO CLOSE to funded via Unbound, and I suspect a ton of people here would like to own a copy.

Also: Graham is one of the great behind-the-scenes mensches of modern SFF and brings the exact opposite of the gee-whiz affect that would make so many versions of a project like this unbearable. It's going to be sharp as hell.

https://unbound.com/books/wonders-and-visions/

#ScienceFiction (I am TRYING with hashtags)

I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.

#History #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #Mesopotamia #CognitiveHistory

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From a friend of Gabriel Allon…

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/danielsilvabook/status/1621981049155616768

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

I've got trust issues. We all do. Some infosec pros go so far as to say #TrustNoOne, a philosophy more formally known as #ZeroTrust, that holds that certain elements of your security should *never* be delegated to *any* third party.

The problem is, it's trust all the way down. Say you maintain your own cryptographic keys on your own device. How do you know the software you use to store those keys is trustworthy? Well, maybe you audit the source-code and compile it yourself.

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I'm here. It's me. Magic!

The (green-ticked) Neil Gaiman