#bookexcerpt — Public Fediverse posts

Medicare for All: Where We’re Going and How We’re Getting There

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.truthdig.com/articles/medicare-for-all-where-were-going-and-how-were-getting-there/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=medicare-for-all-where-were-going-and-how-were-getting-there

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-vanishing-earth-james-crawford-brain-mining/

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state-jill-lepore-silicon-valley-sci-fi/

The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/2018-google-walkout-dont-be-evil-claire-stapleton/

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/inventing-eliza-book-excerpt-chatbot/

People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/loss-of-physical-world-book-excerpt-the-small-stuff-ian-bogost/

What the Success of ’28 Weeks Later’ Meant for an ‘Indiewood’ Still Finding Its Footing
#IndieWire #Features #General #28DaysLater #BookExcerpt #Film #ThomasSchatz

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/success-of-28-weeks-later-indiewood-book-excerpt-1235201122/

Inspiration from Author Karina Bartow

https://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/inspiration-from-author-karina-bartow/

The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-city-on-the-edge-google-buses-san-francisco/

The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/wired-book-club-excerpt-the-yahoo-boys-carlos-barragan/

At the Mercy of Big Pharma

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.truthdig.com/articles/at-the-mercy-of-big-pharma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=at-the-mercy-of-big-pharma

Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-future-of-truth-steven-rosenbaum/

What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-how-to-not-know-simone-stolzoff/

The iPhone That Never Was

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-david-epstein-inside-the-box-general-magic/

3 Exercises to Get Your Writing Unstuck

Author Ramona Ausubel shares three exercises to get your writing unstuck, excerpted from her new book, Unstuck.
The post 3 Exercises to Get Your Writing Unstuck appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/3-exercises-to-get-your-writing-unstuck

#BeInspired #OvercomingWritersBlock #TheWritersLife #bookexcerpt #overcomingwritersblock

The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-lucky-devils-1993-chess-mystery-solved/

How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-mutiny-noam-scheiber-apple-vision-pro/

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-your-data-will-be-used-against-you-andrew-guthrie-ferguson/

Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/project-maven-katrina-manson-book-excerpt/

Excerpt from Goose Creek Holler, coming out later this year. The only reference I've ever made to anyone being of Irish descent, you know, for St. Patrick's Day. #green #stpatrick #bookstodon #mastodon #tuesday #StPatricksDay #Irish #Opal #novels #novel #BookExcerpt #scribesAndMakers #writersCoffeeClub #writers #writersOfMastodon #writer

What’s It Like to Be a Hair and Fur Fabricator for Laika? A New Book Will Answer That (and More)
#IndieWire #Features #General #BookExcerpt #Film #Laika

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/laika-creative-process-book-excerpt-1235182491/

Inside the Screen Test That Almost Sunk John Hughes’ Classic ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
#IndieWire #Features #General #BookExcerpt #FerrisBuellersDayOff #Film #JohnHughes

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/ferris-buellers-day-off-book-screen-test-excerpt-1235181123/

AI Will Never Be Conscious

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan/

"But it turns out that a lot of my so-called thoughts . . . are preverbal, often showing up as images, sensations, or concepts, with words trailing behind as a kind of afterthought, belated attempts to translate these elusive wisps of meaning into something more substantial and shareable."

—Michael Pollan for @TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/19/inside-voice-what-can-our-thoughts-reveal-about-the-nature-of-consciousness

#Consciousness #TheBrain #BookExcerpt

How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/

Bad Indians and Narrative Seeds

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/bad-indians-and-narrative-seeds/

Have you met Sgt. Harold Tyler yet? He's quite the character. His teammates call him Dirty Harry, but out in the field, it's Eastwood, because in the heat of battle, Dirty Harry is just too much of a mouthful. Eastwood's reply? "That's what she said."

https://medium.com/@micheleegwynn/do-broken-soldiers-get-a-second-chance-secondhand-soldier-free-first-chapter-sneak-peek-f91a46826811

#books #bookexcerpt #alphahero #protectorromance #romance

For my Tuesday readers wishing it was already Friday...

https://www.reddit.com/user/MicheleEGwynn/comments/1ouo3s5/learning_to_walk_again_a_secondhand_soldier_sneak/

#romancebooks #books #reading #bookexcerpt

Intellectual Insurgency and Mahesh Raut

We are witnessing a pretend politics which lives on the time borrowed from a deferred revolution, write Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan (excerpted from the authors' book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics)

#BookExcerpt #BK16 #MaheshRaut #BhimaKoregaonCase #BhimaKoregaon #history #RSS #brahminism #BrahminHegemony #dalits #caste #SocialJustice #rights #UAPA #DraconianLaws #hindutva #books #bookstodon #history #histodon #india

https://thewire.in/rights/mahesh-raut-elgar-parishad-book-excerpt

Caste Hierarchies Are Not Just About Purity or Dominance, They Are Also About the State

'We propose a polythetic definition of caste, that is, a definition that invokes a number of different criteria, not all of which will necessarily be present in every case and no one of which is all-determining or ever-present.'

#BookExcerpt #SurinderSJodhka #JulesNaudet #caste #CasteHierarchies #brahminism #books #bookstodon #india

https://thewire.in/books/book-excerpt-caste-purity-state-brahminical-hinduism

How Justice DY Chandrachud ensured radical equality for women with the Sabarimala judgment

An excerpt from ‘Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts and the State’, by Gautam Bhatia.

https://scroll.in/article/1055012/how-justice-dy-chandrachud-ensured-radical-equality-for-women-with-the-sabarimala-judgment

#BookExcerpt #GautamBhatia #DYChandrachud #sabarimala #kerala #justice #law #WomensRights #gender #ReligiousFreedom #india #books #bookstodon