2026-04-12T15:50:11Z https://yabu.me Andreas Lindholm https://yabu.me/npub12x8spjpk96afd9ht5ja5z7eehgryyyg4ll5akhwpn2jc2ds7nzdsvvejah https://media.mastodon.nu/accounts/avatars/109/297/783/305/799/139/original/a45cee6c7cf544b4.png https://media.mastodon.nu/accounts/avatars/109/297/783/305/799/139/original/a45cee6c7cf544b4.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqrpr84jcca2mzakhsgzd7jx7dxlsll9uyasss9n00ewlngmevjlgzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfk6q6086 &#34;The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.&#34;<br/><br/>There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs - The Atlantic<br/><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/tariffs-trump-outcomes-incompatible/682286/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/tariffs-trump-outcomes-incompatible/682286/</a> 2025-04-04T13:34:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsds20t5uyg5ckykc7r6k77evwsxrwjzem9md88rkxp53f084yntrczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfky3nfdx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswlw3v7w75k5qsg6f5hnszhlefe0ksu5875tlc3sj2zufu8q0pj4g46zlk7'>nevent1q…zlk7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For me, it is not an either/or, rather a trade-off. Tactile and olefactory experience versus, for example, convenience. There is no universal standard by which we can decide what is more valuable.<br/><br/>However, I tend to think that ebooks are actually superior to cheap paperbacks when we are talking 1,000+ pages. 2025-03-20T19:56:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2lksdr0r4uxjejuzwuf08xcf4deynagh8fdm90jm3h4ug8wfz5pqzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkldr4sh I have been reading ebooks for more than a decade now and really appreciate the format. I have also accumulated several readers: 2 Kindles, 1 Kobo and, most recently, 1 Onyx. The plan now is to become as independent as possible. <br/><br/>What reader(s) do you have?<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-03-20T09:04:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgdrqvw9hzal364p9slzcwucyml7r4kvry2q6z0qyzqxqnd95vdggzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkn7akts Jeff Bezos:<br/><br/>1. The Kindle is still the best product and using it won&#39;t hurt democracy.<br/><br/>2. Jeff Bezos is an asshole and I will not make an asshole richer no matter what.<br/><br/>3. Buying e-books on Amazon is a way to support the end of democracy.<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-03-14T20:29:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9tnhsuklylrlvh4we3lf362lk8n8g70h5zvk2tek2talvwqzjrxszypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkmn44k7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8t80kethwk4pymdu442u27kg569t5yshspqjecwwm3wlau99087gfs27pp'>nevent1q…27pp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think you are even trying to understand what I just wrote. Sorry, I only engage in good faith discourse. 2025-03-02T18:26:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg4tqlexj4yach8mzm7vhv7qzlktv5cedtkhk4aldf49nks8v5pyszypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkkaqd7q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfulf92xcfpm7njw8ql9shrz980ekylmzwnqxycv9yldcsdcjwpggzm8h3z'>nevent1q…8h3z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Europe in the 2010&#39;s wanted to enjoy its own prosperity and &#34;change Russia through trade&#34; (Wandel durch Handel)–and Putin knew that and used that. Putinism is a maximalist vision of what Russia should be and will stop at nothing to achieve it.<br/><br/>Ultimately, Russia may collapse because it has depleted its human and economic resources, but no-one can tell exactly when that might happen.<br/><br/>Face it, some people don&#39;t _want_ to be reasonable. 2025-03-02T18:03:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfexmqd8f6cyhzpfrtqa2qvh88mw4paz29fcn7hajwx82qehxphlszypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkd6a3s4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqhljvaukmefhamlxxlex5taurhf5n4fvy8j5f8mf955r4a32jkrqx27rv3'>nevent1q…7rv3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>United we stand, divided we fall. That&#39;s it, basically. 2025-03-02T17:57:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9f0x2rwp8dwtuny7kcg5k8njftvqjqu29swqf5zcj2n8vcwg3a3qzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkcjckdj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfmxftthvtz4qcfra4x7p8qakmy863rxrqettdq96rfayhg7pfkqgtxyn6'>nevent1q…xyn6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A suspicious person could get the impression that the contractor is keeping her because it pays to do so. 2025-03-02T14:20:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgckwqke6pgq3f3xtes6wvd8wkflcnu80650mmx0r7vkx7vghjnrczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkydxjhr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6d4wsdrx0k46p7zlf3gcj4x8pmhal86dfdg9hsag545n6e8htaqc92yye'>nevent1q…2yye</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Actually, I think that the book may touch on that, too. 2025-03-01T20:53:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9mejr6zqkp6y5cwka6euqgyx5l7vlwqh05zf972lryvvafduplgqzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfky07y0g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspn50p0enzk8aazy3ggxmzvcfn8t2jn4ex2f7yv3wl9xkarjgsfcghmc4g6'>nevent1q…c4g6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We may be on different paths here. The author is not out to criticise ideas or ideals that are sometimes described as woke, e.g., trans-inclusive feminism, as such but how those ideas are _used_ by &#34;symbolic capitalists.&#34; <br/><br/>One of my take-aways is that they use the ideas in a way that does not threaten the status quo in any important way. People who claim that something called &#34;wokeness&#34; is a dangerous threat to their freedom are either wrong or disingenuous. 2025-03-01T20:27:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9psza36fgwscz9rmacdu4krys48msws0fxzaqv2lcyle0p2yv9mczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfk3ha9wu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffjlu97hdlacjr3ehd7hnnrss3naxp7kc676ju4kd9423ef8k60s0k6v52'>nevent1q…6v52</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We may be talking about different things, due to how ambiguos the word &#34;woke&#34; has become.<br/><br/>I am well aware of the dictionary definition &#34;aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues,&#34; but these days, at least where I am, the word is used in a pejorative sense, often by the right, without a clear definition, e.g., when someone like Ron DeSantis talks about the &#34;woke mind virus.&#34;<br/><br/>I hear people talk about a nebulous &#34;wokeism&#34; or &#34;woke movement.&#34; 2025-03-01T19:33:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstyhj3y8g9v958yzz5d0ata5v747rchr43ckktteuc4x9kp4cl8nszypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkjm4dy8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0mqwef98n2vgv0pkml9y3qx62qxdcug5ffvj43klfdutp6aale5s79enen'>nevent1q…enen</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It seems I have been blocked for posting antiwoke content. <br/><br/>I don&#39;t think that my post is exactly antiwoke, and as far as I can see, the book isn&#39;t either. Obviously, it is open to objections, as basically any academic or political work is.<br/><br/>However, I really can&#39;t say for sure, until someone explains what the antiwoke part is. 2025-03-01T18:34:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrjw258j0f8xkzdfvjarcve0wy0e455nm09r4ghjhs547yj4lh79gzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfky2j90t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0mqwef98n2vgv0pkml9y3qx62qxdcug5ffvj43klfdutp6aale5s79enen'>nevent1q…enen</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It seems I have been blocked for posting antiwoke content. Well, I don&#39;t think that my post is exactly antiwoke, and as far as I can see, the book isn&#39;t either. Obviously, it is opemn to ojections, as basically any academic or political work is.<br/><br/>However, I really can&#39;t say for sure, until someone explains what the antiwoke part is. 2025-03-01T18:33:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0mqwef98n2vgv0pkml9y3qx62qxdcug5ffvj43klfdutp6aale5szypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkynk3s8 If you still want to read about &#34;woke,&#34; I can recommend _We Have Never Been Woke_ by Musa al-Gharbi. <br/><br/>Two important take-aways for me:<br/><br/>&#34;Woke,&#34; whatever it is, is something that concerns mainly the urban academic middle class. Other people don&#39;t really need to worry about it.<br/><br/>The function of &#34;woke&#34; is mainly symbolic. The opinions may be genuine, but the willingness to effect real social change just isn&#39;t there. No &#34;woke&#34; revolution will ever take place.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232607/we-have-never-been-woke">https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232607/we-have-never-been-woke</a> 2025-03-01T11:28:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2a20nlgych7v9rk7acapgekm9v2un9u36308h6rkenea9zh3a8pczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfknxx82e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszy4tlslr700hwmgsnrlqqqetm4ld9mvp797tcvwk63r4f9p4x97qnpdlg4'>nevent1q…dlg4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>● Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things<br/>● Anna Kavan, Ice<br/>● Basically anything by James Tiptree Jr. 2025-02-21T20:08:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx350j93n8fdcnez5pulq0vjtmmh9xynask2mhf7ep9twjfkwj3kgzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfk54tp94 Om någon nu mot förmodan tror att det Musk gör är att &#34;effektivisera&#34;:<br/><br/>Att lägga ned en verksamhet är inte att effektivisera. Effektivisering, som jag tror att alla vet, är att göra samma sak med mindre resursåtgång.<br/><br/>Men självklart går det att spara pengar, åtminstone på kort sikt, genom att helt enkelt sluta göra saker. På lång sikt kan det finnas konsekvenser i form kostnader, men det vet vi inte mycket om, eftersom Musk struntar i allt vad konsekvensanalys heter. 2025-02-13T13:32:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9wanj58g5tzszzsdgayaxc4spfhsxy2k76034muapg6nsmhqhw6qzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkrf9yw8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszww0vqkag2gd4pzjnfrccjza6nexknfkrm7ug3fre9pajplu4hxs2nqcf5'>nevent1q…qcf5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The app is not available in Sweden, but it is still a good suggestion. 🙂 2025-02-07T13:48:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0rgu9jyurc6gjwkplzr9myehuf6u53mk9yfvcz6spgds84h3usdgzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkxz0640 So now I have an Onyx Boox and can get my ebooks in a lot of places.<br/><br/>Are there any exciting vendors I should now about? I mean if I want to try something that is not Bezos, Kobo or Alphabet?<br/><br/>Being Swedish, I often buy ebooks from Bokon.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-02-07T09:32:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz3gvacjj3lf9c57fd9e2dvw06g8dxwuxy5s0f49w5rm8drqdrn3gzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkx8dtk0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqm9r7mq4cswn73y9lj5xy2vu5eah0c7ucg0x9afe9xwnutw5fc6c33w4xh'>nevent1q…w4xh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>● ANIARA by Harry Martinson is not a novel but an epic poem, an intensely sad one, about a spaceship lost in the depths of space, never to return to Earth (or Doris), which has been destroyed by Man, the &#34;King of Ashes.&#34;<br/><br/>● ICE by Anna Kavan, a surreal story about a nameless narrator chasing the woman he loves through a world rapidly succumbing to a planetary ice age, while humanity tries to ignore its imminent demise. 2025-02-04T16:29:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfhgwx0qvdnv7lpgzr7uqp42hm6pppgcynwn0uhntuyy6sqlmyrhczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkhe7ar5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxtareeht7ymyx9cfwe4thdsj5te7w0d0w7xff3ejvyx2wxpz696qtcul3g'>nevent1q…ul3g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have a Kindle, a Kobo, and a Boox. I really do like the Kindle as an e-reader, but I hate being stuck with Amazon. 2025-01-31T19:21:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8sfskyemhuj2n5facq584gwyeyeg6swq07ks47xt4v35tuxdqscczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkn3ljsn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs22x8hwf7hnvh63h23qymky86a3zvw6uua82ll3m0ndandx5gj5wq8jwdyy'>nevent1q…wdyy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And perhaps a little bit less evil than Amazon. 2025-01-31T19:19:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr5j30ftxehk22x65fxqf6e9ntx3z0zyf6td55t084v00k8ecj8nqzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkv3dzz2 Fallet Gelbhaar sabbar valrörelsen för Die Grünen.<br/><br/>Det som framstår som egendomligt med ungdomsförbundets inställning är inte att de håller på principen att tro på den som berättar att den har utsatts för övergrepp, utan att de skruvar principen så långt att den gäller till och med när det, som jag förstår saken, är oklart om de som ska ha drabbats ens existerar i sinnevärlden.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-glauben-betroffenen-grune-jugend-sieht-im-fall-gelbhaar-keinen-grund-fur-unschuldsvermutung-13068085.html">https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-glauben-betroffenen-grune-jugend-sieht-im-fall-gelbhaar-keinen-grund-fur-unschuldsvermutung-13068085.html</a> 2025-01-24T13:02:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsywd9dnnwpvhzzlxhs92dtkzjy8mnn3utm042rnmxeza7hrqfr2nqzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfk85ch3n What would be a good book on the &#34;politics of tech&#34;, meaning the political ideas of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, et al.?<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-01-23T11:56:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdlxdu0m3dp0ha8x4hawl7cts66gca8mnkm6yjyfd0sng4lnc6f8szypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkljzmfq Vad ska man använda i stället för WhatsApp? 2025-01-21T09:18:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9k8ny8ht5s7xnl29c5naxmwypy42xymm4vc5rzhy5yd0e7pfsahszypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkcj2n4u It is in some ways symptomatic of the age of hyper-individualism that “prepping” means preparing _yourself_ for the coming storm, rather than investing in infrastructure and shared institutions that could help us deal with its impacts. 2025-01-13T11:27:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw4txs3f9xma9pt6mhhjn8utnz4kptpk9hay7gcffhy2cnx5hvmzczypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkr9pawm Här kan man säga mycket om exempelvis varför vinstintresset till slut alltid vinner eller vikten av öppenhet.<br/><br/><a href="https://etidning.dn.se/shared/article/linus-larsson-nu-faller-allt-pa-plats-om-spotifys-bluff-och-/vmtUlHRr">https://etidning.dn.se/shared/article/linus-larsson-nu-faller-allt-pa-plats-om-spotifys-bluff-och-/vmtUlHRr</a> 2024-12-21T07:51:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvmjck3n5v2c065s4cnnt7pumnw7us8yhn9zzfdyv6yg0lhz50upqzypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfk9dtrfm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyzv7ua44wnzql72mxxp75mrngcwkjjvgw78ty8fjzja5chqjxptsekz8ug'>nevent1q…z8ug</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fort gick det. 2024-12-08T09:23:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2ldyjraf4vh0qf36avsg50ved3fvuvafntwh0ftqqkua386h0z2szypgc7qxgxcht495kawjtkstm8xaqvss3zhl7nk6acxd2tpfkr6vfkvklle3 It is funny because it is true.<br/> <img src="https://media.mastodon.nu/media_attachments/files/113/279/779/375/327/757/original/39635e71715940fc.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-10-09T22:19:14Z