Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric 2025-11-10T12:13:53+00:00 https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/the-three-body-problem-the-imperative-of-survival-and-the-misogyny-of-reactionary-rhetoric/ jm It has become clear that the narrative structure of the Three-Bodies series, just like the gongye dang techno-nationalist discourse, is masculinist and misogynistic. Liu explicitly depicts human society under deterrence peace as ‘feminised’, noting the physical as well as mental feminisation of the ‘new era’ men. The qualities conventionally associated with femininity, such as love, compassion, and moral sentiments, are blamed for the extinction of human civilisation, whereas qualities associated with masculinity, such as rationality, determination, and aggression, are framed as key to civilisational survival. The reactionary rhetoric adopts a similar strategy, which is not only evidently anti-feminist, but also feminises social justice issues ‘as a prelude to devaluing and subduing them’ (Kaul 2021: 1624). By labelling anyone with any concerns about human rights or equality a shengmu, this rhetoric constructs certain ideas and political agendas as feminine as a way of delegitimating them: they are either hopelessly idealistic or dangerously undermine stability, growth, and ‘national interests’. ]]> literature review gender scifi misogyny books culture three-body-problem liu-cixin woke china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:02628640eb62/ This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” 2025-04-17T10:28:44+00:00 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit jm[Meta's] defense hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless — one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”) as Paul Mainwood notes, this is the Sorites paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/ --
- 1 grain of wheat does not make a heap. - If 1 grain doesn’t make a heap, then 2 grains don’t. - If 2 grains don’t make a heap, then 3 grains don’t. - ... - If 999,999 grains don’t make a heap, then 1 million grains don’t. Therefore, 1 million grains don’t make a heap.
]]> ml copyright ip books training llms meta llama pretraining paradoxes sorites-paradox https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24f1f9a9162f/ The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 2025-03-20T12:47:54+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGYDRoX8kfg3ZQZL6J-W0kQE jmOne of the biggest questions of the digital age is how to manage the flow of knowledge and creative work in a way that benefits society the most. LibGen and other such pirated libraries make information more accessible, allowing people to read original work without paying for it. Yet generative-AI companies such as Meta have gone a step further: Their goal is to absorb the work into profitable technology products that compete with the originals. Will these be better for society than the human dialogue they are already starting to replace? Also, I found this quote from a Meta Director of Engineering in the legal discovery output interesting: "The problem is that people don’t realize that if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy". huh.]]> books knowledge papers meta llama llms law piracy ip libgen genai fair-use https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b26e866b7827/ "A Canticle for Leibowitz" inspired "Fallout" 2025-03-18T11:19:50+00:00 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271122 jm leibowitz scifi sf books fallout games gaming hugo-awards https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fdb844163e47/ Court docs allege Meta trained LLM models using pirated book trove 2025-01-10T11:41:28+00:00 https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/ jmThe [court] document claims that Meta decided to download documents from Library Genesis -- aka. “LibGen” -- to train its models. LibGen is the subject of a lawsuit brought by textbook publishers who believe it happily hosts and distributes [pirated] works [....] The filing from plaintiffs in the Kadrey case claims that documents produced by Meta [...] describe internal debate about accessing LibGen, a little squeamishness about using BitTorrent in the office to do so, and eventual escalation to “MZ” [Mark Zuckerberg himself], who approved use of the contentious resource. [...] Another filing claims that a Meta document describes how it removed copyright notifications from material downloaded from LibGen, and suggests the company did so because it realized including such text could mean a model’s output would reveal it was trained on copyrighted material. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria also noted that in one of the documents Meta wants to seal, an employee wrote the following:
“If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.”
No shit.]]> piracy meta copyright mark-zuckerberg law llama training libgen books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:803844c4f893/ Some libraries in Ireland are restricting access to young adult LGBTQ+ books, employee says • GCN 2023-07-25T13:24:50+00:00 https://gcn.ie/ireland-libraries-restricting-access-lgbtq-young-adult-books/ jmOur source shared that roughly one year ago, the [Irish public library] staff received training about how to provide young LGBTQ+ people with information and support. Now, this staff member feels that the library policy is restricting the same supportive material. Another anonymous source from a different library branch had this to say about the re-classification of young adult books as adult: “It is utterly galling that some Irish libraries have decided to capitulate to what amounts to terror tactics, and in a way that creates a hostile working environment to all LGBT staff who now have to work under these conditions, and are told they are not allowed to talk about it.” ]]> lgbtq books reading education sex-education nazis far-right politics ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:afde0d88edf6/ Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement - The Verge 2023-07-10T13:07:37+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai jmThe suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available in bulk via torrent systems.” ]]> ai content copyright the-pile eleutherai openai chatgpt llama meta bibliotik books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:48e00a3d8ba5/ The 50 Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade : NPR 2021-08-19T08:17:56+00:00 https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-past-decade jm via:meehawl sf science-fiction books reading toget fantasy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:667f6a44cf0c/ Derctuo 2021-01-10T21:29:47+00:00 https://zenodo.org/record/4408470 jma book of notes on various topics, mostly science and engineering with some math, from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 02020 CE.  Its primary published form is a gzipped tarball of 9MB of HTML files and sources, although there’s also an inferior PDF version of about 1000 pages for reading on hand computers or printing. It uses a page size slightly smaller than standard for improved readability on hand computers. [....] It contains some novel discoveries, but some of it is just my notes from exploring the enormous feast of knowledge now available on the internet to anyone who takes the time to taste of it, and some other parts are explorations that didn’t pan out — left here only as a cautionary tale to the next explorer. There are lots of notes in here that aren’t “finished” in the usual sense; they end in the middle of a sentence, or say “XXX”, or have a note in them that the foregoing is wrong in such-and-such a way.  But I am publishing the final version of Derctuo today.  I might make future versions of some of these notes, but not of Derctuo itself. ]]> derctuo kragen notes books reading essays https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:09feb6837d1d/ The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books 2019-09-02T16:26:13+00:00 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/ jmThe Sabres of Paradise (1960) served as one of those sources, a half-forgotten masterpiece of narrative history recounting a mid-19th century Islamic holy war against Russian imperialism in the Caucasus. [...] Anyone who has obsessed over the mythology of Dune will immediately recognize the language Herbert borrowed from Blanch’s work. Chakobsa, a Caucasian hunting language, becomes the language of a galactic diaspora in Herbert’s universe. Kanly, from a word for blood feud among the Islamic tribes of the Caucasus, signifies a vendetta between Dune’s great spacefaring dynasties. Kindjal, the personal weapon of the region’s Islamic warriors, becomes a knife favored by Herbert’s techno-aristocrats. As Blanch writes, “No Caucasian man was properly dressed without his kindjal.” ]]> books dune frank-herbert lesley-blanch caucasus scifi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fa628ac0be65/ 'The Internet of Garbage' by Sarah Jeong 2018-09-05T09:19:01+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17777330/internet-of-garbage-book-sarah-jeong-online-harassment jm dystopia fake-news internet spam harrassment abuse twitter gamergate politics books free to-read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1fa9b11841c6/ Car Hacker's Handbook 2018-02-09T16:29:17+00:00 http://opengarages.org/handbook/ jm Modern cars are more computerized than ever. Infotainment and navigation systems, Wi-Fi, automatic software updates, and other innovations aim to make driving more ­convenient. But vehicle technologies haven't kept pace with today's more hostile security environment, leaving ­millions vulnerable to attack. The Car Hacker's Handbook will give you a deeper understanding of the computer systems and embedded software in modern ­vehicles. It begins by examining vulnerabilities and providing detailed explanations of communications over the CAN bus and ­between devices and systems. Then, once you have an understanding of a vehicle's communication network, you'll learn how to intercept data and perform specific hacks to track vehicles, unlock doors, glitch engines, flood communication, and more. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license.]]> cars books hacking exploits can-bus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1e66a783c9f1/ European Commission study finds no link between piracy and lower sales of digital content 2017-09-25T10:06:51+00:00 https://www.finder.com.au/eu-piracy-study jmAccording to the report, an average of 51% of adults and 72% of minors in the EU have pirated digital content, with Poland and Spain averaging the highest rates of all countries surveyed. Nevertheless, displacement rates (the impact of piracy on legitimate sales) were found to be negligible or non-existent for music, books and games, while rates for films and TV were in line with previous digital piracy studies. Most interesting is the fact that the study found that illegal game downloads actually lead to an increase in legal purchases. The report concludes that tactics like video game microtransactions are proving effective in converting illegal users to paying users. The full report goes in-depth regarding potential factors influencing piracy and the challenges of accurately tracking its impact on legitimate sales, but the researchers ultimately conclude that there is no robust statistical evidence that illegal downloads reduce legal sales. That's big news, which makes it all the more troubling that the EU effectively buried it for two years. ]]> piracy eu studies downloads ec games movies books content https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ce0babb6cff3/ Normietivity: A Review of Angela Nagle's Kill all Normies 2017-09-19T13:41:52+00:00 https://newsocialist.org.uk/normietivity-a-review-of-angela-nagles-kill-all-normies/ jmDue to a persistent vagueness in targets and refusal to respond to the best arguments presented by those she loosely groups together, Nagle does not provide the thoroughgoing and immanent treatment of the left which would be required to achieve the profound intervention she clearly intended. Nor does she grapple with the difficult implications figures like Greer (with her transphobic campaign against a vulnerable colleague) and Milo (with his direct advocacy for the nativist and carceral state) present for free speech absolutists. And indeed, the blurring their specifically shared transphobia causes for distinguishing between left and right wing social analysis. In genre terms, Nagle’s writing is best described as travel writing for internet culture. Kill All Normies provides a string of curios and oddities (from neo-nazi cults, to inscrutably gendered teenagers) to an audience expected to find them unfamiliar, and titillating. Nagle attempts to cast herself as an aloof and wry explorer, but at various points her commitments become all too clear. Nagle implicitly casts her reader as the eponymous normies, overlooking those of us who live through lives with transgenders, in the wake of colonialism, despite invisible disabilities (including depression), and all the rest. This is both a shame and a missed opportunity, because the deadly violence the Alt-Right has proven itself capable of is in urgent need of evaluation, but so too are the very real dysfunctions which afflict the left (both online and IRL). After this book patient, discerning, explanatory, and immanent readings of internet culture remain sorely needed. The best that can be said for Kill All Normies is, as the old meme goes, “An attempt was made.” ]]> angela-nagle normies books reading transphobia germaine-greer milo alt-right politics internet 4chan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7fffa96986b7/ How Google Book Search Got Lost – Backchannel 2017-04-11T20:52:13+00:00 https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d jmThere are plenty of other explanations for the dampening of Google’s ardor: The bad taste left from the lawsuits. The rise of shiny and exciting new ventures with more immediate payoffs. And also: the dawning realization that Scanning All The Books, however useful, might not change the world in any fundamental way. ]]> books reading google library lawsuits legal scanning book-search search https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7ab6ee448e22/ Google - Site Reliability Engineering 2017-01-30T10:55:58+00:00 https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html jm sre google ops books reading https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:46fcdf014499/ Danger is Everwhere Docter Noel Zone Halloween costume 2016-10-21T11:02:17+00:00 https://www.penguin.co.uk/puffin/articles/2016/sep/docter-noel-zone-halloween-costume/ jm noel-zone danger-is-everywhere books costumes halloween https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4c0248676526/ "The couple, who had no experience of wine-making but much faith in professorial expertise…" 2016-09-21T11:08:12+00:00 https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/755211711666229248 jm In the Languedoc there is a vineyard that teaches us an important lesson about textbook learning and its application to the world. In the early Seventies it was bought by a wealthy couple, who consulted professors Emile Peynaud and Henri Enjalbert, the world’s leading academic oenologist and oenological geologist respectively. Between them these men convinced the couple that their new vineyard had a theoretically ideal microclimate for wine-making. When planted with theoretically ideal vines whose fruits would be processed in the optimal way according to the up-to-date science of oenology, this vineyard had the potential to produce wine to match the great first growths of Bordeaux. The received wisdom that great wine was the product of an inscrutable (and untransferable) tradition was quite mistaken, the professors said: it could be done with hard work and a fanatical attention to detail. The couple, who had no experience of wine-making but much faith in professorial expertise, took a deep breath and went ahead. If life were reliably like novels, their experiment would have been a disaster. In fact Aimé and Véronique Guibert have met with a success so unsullied that it would make a stupefying novel (it has already been the subject of a comatogenic work of non-fiction). The first vintage they declared (in 1978) was described by Gault Millau as ‘Château Lafite du Languedoc’; others have been praised to the heights by the likes of Hugh Johnson and Robert Parker. The wine is now on the list at the Tour d’Argent and the 1986 vintage retails at the vineyard for £65 a bottle. The sole shadow on the lives of these millionaires is cast by the odd hailstorm. No one to whom I have begun recounting the story believes it will end well. Most people are extremely unwilling to grant that faith in textbook knowledge should ever be crowned with success. We have a very strong narrative bias against such stories. It is a bias we forget once our children fall sick or we have to travel in an aeroplane, but so long as we are in storytelling mode we simply deny that systematic textbook reasoning can make headway against whimsy and serendipity. Apart from anything else, it is deeply unfair that it should.]]> books science languedoc wine academia microclimates preconceptions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1001e8697ae5/ Tekkonkinkreet Art Book Shinji Kimura - White Side: Shinji Kimura: 9784870317659: Amazon.com: Books 2016-09-07T15:20:59+00:00 https://www.amazon.com/Tekkonkinkreet-Art-Book-Shinji-Kimura/dp/B003KXJQYK/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=WDFVDY62F66ZSK83HK3Q jm hardback books toget anime manga tekkonkinkreet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:90d255797fe6/ Before the World Forgets Antarctica's First Great Author: The Fascinating Life and Death of Nick Johnson 2016-05-18T13:51:04+00:00 http://www.alternet.org/media/world-forgets-antarcticas-first-great-author-fascinating-life-and-death-nick-johnson jm big-dead-place nick-johnson rip eulogies books reading history antarctica exploration raytheon bureaucracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a509e300314e/ Review: Site Reliability Engineering 2016-04-18T12:57:55+00:00 http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2016/04/17/review-site-reliability-engineering/ jm sre books reading reviews lusis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ac5ee4b93191/ Dan Luu reviews the Site Reliability Engineering book 2016-04-11T11:02:05+00:00 http://danluu.com/google-sre-book/ jm books reading devops ops google sre dan-luu via:fanf https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f27fece650a2/ Wired on the new O'Reilly SRE book 2016-04-06T19:59:21+00:00 http://www.wired.com/2016/04/google-ensures-services-almost-never-go/ jm google sre niall-murphy ops devops oreilly books toread reviews https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c50e5fc3af45/ Doodletown 2016-02-29T10:52:33+00:00 http://www.doodle.town/ jm doodles kids drawing books toget chris-judge https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a5b463593a51/ Brand New Retro – The Book, November 2015 2015-10-05T10:26:21+00:00 http://brandnewretro.ie/2015/10/04/brand-new-retro-the-book-november-2015/ jm brand-new-retro blogs friends retro history dublin ireland books toget https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c06b96d470c/ Who wrote this amazing, mysterious book satirizing tech startup culture? 2015-06-08T20:48:30+00:00 http://fusion.net/story/146648/who-wrote-this-amazing-mysterious-book-satirizing-tech-startup-culture/ jm books reading startups silicon-valley mysteries pranks san-francisco https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3922bf635301/ Vintage Illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit from Around the World | Brain Pickings 2015-06-07T19:59:35+00:00 http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/13/vintage-hobbit-illustrations/ jm tove-jansson art illustration tolkien the-hobbit books via:ianmoore https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8edd1d4c91ed/ Redditor runs the secret Python code in Ex Machina 2015-05-17T22:31:24+00:00 http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/365f9b/secret_code_in_ex_machina/ jmwhen you run with python2.7 you get the following: ISBN = 9780199226559 Which is Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. and so now I have a lot more respect for the Director. ]]> python movies ex-machina cool books easter-eggs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eb662c4db1df/ Writing Minecraft Plugins - The Book 2015-04-18T10:34:35+00:00 http://walterhiggins.net/blog/Writing-Minecraft-Plugins-The-Book-in-Print jm books reading minecraft walter-higgins javascript https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c1677cf915b6/ Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society: Unpredictable Work - Aileen O'Carroll 2015-04-08T13:53:50+00:00 http://books.google.ie/books?id=g9y_BwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false jm I will argue that a key feature of working time within high-tech industries is unpredictability, which alters the way time is experienced and perceived. It affects all aspects of time, from working hours to work organisation, to career, to the distinction between work and life. Although many desire variety in work and the ability to control working hours, unpredictability causes dissatisfaction. On Amazon.co.uk at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Time-Knowledge-Post-Industrial-Society-ebook/dp/B00VILIN4U]]> books reading time work society tech working-hours job life sociology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:da9cad00bc88/ 67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10 | GeekDad | Wired.com 2014-05-27T22:29:13+00:00 http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2013/03/67-books-every-geek-should-read-to-their-kids-before-age-10/?pid=1185&viewall=true jm reading books kids children education fiction development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3c82976897e9/ Goodnight Clock 2014-03-11T21:45:52+00:00 http://burritojustice.com/2014/03/07/goodnight-clock/ jm goodnight-moon moon space time space-elevators childrens-books books physics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:478a8600b529/ The Hands That Made The Moomins 2014-03-06T10:28:22+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/03/tove-jansson-moomin-creator-biography-review.html?mbid=social_twitter&mobify=0 jm tove-jansson moomins books childrens-books reading literature via:etienneshrdlu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:55d9ae460424/ British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuse - Boing Boing 2013-12-16T16:13:32+00:00 http://boingboing.net/2013/12/13/british-library-uploads-one-mi.html jmThe British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr! They're embarking on an ambitious programme to crowdsource novel uses and navigation tools for the huge corpus. Already, the manifest of image descriptions is available through Github. This is a remarkable, public spirited, archival project, and the British Library is to be loudly applauded for it! ]]> british-library libraries public-domain art graphics images history 19th-century 17th-century 18th-century books crowdsourcing via:boingboing github https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ae68d1bd9736/ Codex Seraphinianus: A new edition of the strangest book in the world 2013-10-03T16:16:21+00:00 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/codex_seraphinianus_a_new_edition_of_the_strangest_book_in_the_world jm codex-seraphinianus art weird strange books luigi-serafini https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1ebd0f3f9f83/ The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic 2013-09-25T09:03:02+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-collective-memory-how-copyright-made-mid-century-books-vanish/278209/ jmThis is not a gently sloping downward curve. Publishers seem unwilling to sell their books on Amazon for more than a few years after their initial publication. The data suggest that publishing business models make books disappear fairly shortly after their publication and long before they are scheduled to fall into the public domain. Copyright law then deters their reappearance as long as they are owned. On the left side of the graph before 1920, the decline presents a more gentle time-sensitive downward sloping curve. ]]> business books legal copyright law public-domain reading history publishers amazon papers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b1fead965ff6/ Comics For Children…. a visual list…. | The Forbidden Planet International Blog 2013-07-01T11:04:54+00:00 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/comics-for-children-a-visual-list/ jm comics kids children books reading library toget toread https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e2a07f0f9302/ One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free 2013-05-03T13:23:37+00:00 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/tor-books-uk-drm-free-one-year-later jmAs it is, we’ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year. ]]> tor ebooks drm piracy copy-protection books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fe3a9329e25/ A History Of Ireland In 100 Objects 2013-03-13T14:38:40+00:00 http://www.eu2013.ie/100objects/ jmThe Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland, and The Irish Times are collaborating with the EU Presidency, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Adobe to bring you a gift of A History of Ireland in 100 objects ‘from the people of Ireland to the people of the world’ for St Patrick’s Day. It is available as an interactive app for Apple iPhone and iPad, for most Android tablets and on the Kindle Fire, from our website, as well as associated app stores. You can also experience the book on your computer, smartphone or eReader by clicking on the 'eBook' button below. The gift is free to download until the end of March.  ]]> free st-patricks-day museum ireland history objects eu apps iphone ipad android books ebooks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:57008ca95abc/ Bunnie Huang's "Hacking the Xbox" now available as a free PDF 2013-03-11T10:53:01+00:00 http://nostarch.com/xboxfree jm hacking bunnie-huang xbox free hardware drm freedom-to-tinker books reading mit microsoft history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cebca07e304d/ "Security Engineering" now online in full 2013-02-04T22:34:48+00:00 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html jm security books reference coding software encryption ross-anderson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ddbd2a5776d4/ "Matters Computational - Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code" 2013-01-07T23:56:58+00:00 http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf jm algorithms computation via:cliffc pdf books coding https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:04c499b8eb2c/ Ingenious Dublin 2012-10-01T16:02:03+00:00 http://ingeniousireland.ie/ingenious-ireland-mary-mulvihill/ jm Where in Dublin can you see a Victorian diving bell? What about the skeleton of Tommy, the prince’s elephant? The site of the world’s first earthquake experiment? Or the world’s sports pirate radio broadcast? Our new e-book Ingenious Dublin has all these fascinating stories and more. It is packed with information, places to visit, and lots of illustrations, and covers the city and county, from Skerries windmills to Ballybetagh’s fossil deer.' EUR 4.99 for the Kindle e-book. I'll buy that!]]> kindle reading books mary-mulvihill science facts dublin ireland history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e084041085bc/ Marsh's Library 2012-07-23T20:16:13+00:00 http://www.marshlibrary.ie/ jm museum dublin ireland libraries books science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8ab24e15722/ The story of St. Columba: A modern copyright battle in sixth century Ireland 2012-06-18T15:45:15+00:00 http://opensource.com/law/11/6/story-st-columba-modern-copyright-battle-sixth-century-ireland jm columcille copyright history ireland columbanus books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:725c1f66763c/ Open Data Structures 2012-05-13T21:20:49+00:00 http://opendatastructures.org/ jm algorithms books data-structures computer-science coding tries skiplists arrays queues heap trees graphs hashtables https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:816399c78a41/ Infovore » A Year of Links 2012-02-28T10:00:39+00:00 http://infovore.org/archives/2012/02/26/a-year-of-links/ jm books archives bookmarks pinboard delicious links personal history via:pinboard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5266e491bf1c/ the legend of St. Columba, patron saint of copyright infringers 2011-11-15T12:56:58+00:00 http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/12/wednesday-whimsies-or-tale-of-three.html jm st-columba books via:cearta ireland law history filesharing copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eac29de0dfcf/ The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) 2011-09-11T22:03:37+00:00 http://blamcast.net/articles/best-science-fiction-books jm scifi fiction books science-fiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:44a97827d9fc/ Unbound: The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult – Telegraph Blogs 2011-07-30T23:37:11+00:00 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100006763/unbound-the-crowdfunding-cargo-cult/ jm via:waxy unbound kickstarter cargo-cult funding crowdfunding books uk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b89984baa0d6/ Science fiction: The stories of now - 16 September 2009 - New Scientist 2009-09-18T23:47:57+00:00 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327263.200-science-fiction-the-stories-of-now.html?full=true jm sf science-fiction uk scifi kim-stanley-robinson new-scientist culture toread books https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2d52f75e1804/