Trevor Burrows<p>From *The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped U.S. Free Speech Protections* by Eric Kasper and Troy Kozma:</p><p>"US constitutional jurisprudence today has remarkably strong free speech protections when compared to other developed democracies." (10)</p><p>This book just came out in 2024. I don't think they could have gotten away with that line if their book was published just a few months later... 😩 </p><p>(Also, will use this thread for <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> of this book, which I grabbed on a whim and should be a really interesting read, especially right now.)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JohnStuartMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnStuartMill</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a></p>
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Trevor Burrows<p>"That night [...] I wrote a story about a bug who woke up one morning to find himself transformed into a hideous Franz Kafka. He was in Franz Kafka's body, in Franz Kafka's house, in Franz Kafka's bedroom. Bug lay on his back and with great effort lifted his oversize human head to peer down at his hideous naked being: at his pigeon chest, his flabby belly, his spindly legs, a meager two now, when the night before he'd had a magnificent six."</p><p>-- Shalom Auslander, *Feh* (p. 53)</p><p>---</p><p>Started this last night and it's absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking, all at the same time. Also, hitting a little close to home at times -- but that can also be good.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NowReading</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ShalomAuslander" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShalomAuslander</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Feh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Feh</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"Rotating about the earth in their spacecraft they are so together, and so alone, that even their thoughts, their internal mythologies, at times convene. Sometimes they dream the same dreams -- of fractals and blue spheres and familiar faces engulfed in dark, and of the bright energetic black of space that slams their senses. Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."</p><p>-- the stellar <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstSentences" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstSentences</span></a> of *Orbital* by Samantha Harvey</p><p>(will use this as my running <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> thread for this book)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SamanthaHarvey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SamanthaHarvey</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Orbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orbital</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>John Caputo is presumably talking about metaphysics in this passage, but it also feels like some very eccentric documentation of the `this` keyword in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Javascript</span></a>.</p><p>(From Against Ethics, p. 77)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JohnCaputo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnCaputo</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"It's refreshingly simple in design: a plastic rectangle with a hole punched out the middle, then split into two inward-curving hooks that keep the bag snug. When produced en masse, they're printed in an extraordinarily long row with small arms connecting the clips, then wound like a movie reel.</p><p>[...]</p><p>About twenty machines are scattered across the factory's cement floor. Colorful clips spiral out at an unimaginable speed, each hue corresponding to a specific day of the week--not for branding, but for efficiency. [...] It's impossible to comprehend just how many bread clips, nevermind the sheer variety in cuts and shapes, are being churned out around you in teh factory. In one year alone, Kwik Lok sells billions."</p><p>from Nina Corcoran, "Consider the Bread Clip," in *Cake Zine* (Winter 2025)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Passages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Passages</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a></p>
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fboucheros<p>Hello! It's Monday already! Here are few of my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readingnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readingnotes</span></a> which kept my interest recently <a href="https://c5m.ca/RN-649" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">c5m.ca/RN-649</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> about AI, container, .NET, open-source & more</p>
Trevor Burrows<p>Unexpected Michael Jackson appearance in an academic <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>philosophy</span></a> text:</p><p>On p. 3 of his *Against Ethics*, John Caputo writes:</p><p>"Unhappily, 'undecidability' has gotten a bad name, a very notorious one, proof positive for the officials of anti-deconstruction that deconstruction must be irresponsible, must itself be very bad."</p><p>There's a footnote at the end of that sentence. What does the linked footnote read? </p><p>Turn to p. 250 and find:</p><p>"Which it is, in the sense of Michael Jackson, who has not as far as I know addressed the question of deconstruction."</p><p>(I guess this will be the beginning of my <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> for Against Ethics,, should I have any...)</p>
fboucheros<p>Good Monday everyone! Let's start with a fresh list of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readingnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readingnotes</span></a> <a href="https://c5m.ca/RN-648" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">c5m.ca/RN-648</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> about accessibility AI security and more!</p>
fboucheros<p>Good Monday! 👋 This post gathers my recent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readingnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readingnotes</span></a> on artificial intelligence, programming, and a few inspiring podcasts. c5m.ca/RN-644 Whether you're interested in the latest AI developments, .NET tools, or modern architectures, there's plenty here to spark your curiosity. Happy reading!</p>
fboucheros<p>Good Monday everyone! Looking for something to read, listen or watch? <a href="https://c5m.ca/RN-643" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">c5m.ca/RN-643</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> here my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> about cloud, .NET, AI, Linux and more</p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit."</p><p>-- Thomas Mann, *The Magic Mountain*</p><p>(welp, I guess I'm reading this now -- reading notes will go here)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstLines</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NowReading</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ThomasMann" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThomasMann</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TheMagicMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheMagicMountain</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>Started a quick read of *Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge*, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, which has been on my shelf for a long time. </p><p>I don't expect to have that many notes - and I'll probably read this in a day or two, sort of an intentional sprint for something different from the other books I'm working with right now - but any notes I have will go here.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NowReading</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"A sparse snow was falling."</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstSentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstSentence</span></a> of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*</p><p>(Starting running thread for any notes here)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HanKang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HanKang</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"What does it mean to be human? It means being able to cross the frontier between life that is deemed human and life that is not yet human, not human at all, or no longer human."</p><p>- First lines from Jan Miernowski, Laughing on the Brink of Humanity: An Exercise in Epihumanism (2024)</p><p><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laughing-on-the-Brink-of-Humanity" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laughing</span><span class="invisible">-on-the-Brink-of-Humanity</span></a></p><p>---</p><p>Started this a day or two ago to try and scratch a philosophy-ish itch. Already arguing with it, which is a good sign. Totally picked this up off the shelf bc I liked the title, the rough description, and some names I saw in the bibliography, lol.</p><p>Not sure how much I'll comment here but will make this my <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> thread for the book.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NowReading</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JanMiernowski" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JanMiernowski</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstSentences" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstSentences</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"The grass was white with frost on the shadowed sides of the reservation hills and ditches, but the morning air was almost warm, sweetened by a southern wind. Father Damien's best hours were late at night and just after rising, when all he'd had to break his fast was a cup of hot water. He was old, very old, but alert until he had to eat."</p><p>Opening lines of *The Last Report on the Miracles at Little Horse*, by Louise Erdrich. </p><p>Started this in the middle of the night a few nights ago, absolutely wonderful so far. Will share running thoughts here.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstSentences" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstSentences</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LouiseErdrich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LouiseErdrich</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>Even in 1915, Carl Becker was noting the difficulty of getting people to engage with <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a>, and along the way thinking about history as <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a>: </p><p>"... history is I should say one of the most difficult subjects in the world to make literature out of; I mean history in the general sense, as distinct from biography or the narrative of some particular episode. Yet it is [...] highly desirable to come as near doing just that thing as possible.</p><p>With all our busy activity history has less influence on the thought of our time than it had in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and one principal reason is that it isn't read. Everyone benefits from science even without knowing anything about it; but people don't benefit from historical research except in so far as they read history, and they won't read it unless it is readable."</p><p>-- Carl Becker, Letter to William Munro, 1915</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a></p>
fboucheros<p>Good Monday everyone! Let's start with a fresh list of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readingnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readingnotes</span></a> c5m.ca/RN-634 about accessibility AI security and more!</p>
Trevor Burrows<p>"That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."</p><p>-- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstLines</span></a> from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk</p><p><a href="https://meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne</span><span class="invisible">y/</span></a></p><p>(This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstSentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstSentence</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>Anyhow, hoping today inaugurates a back-to-regular-reading day. Just before break, I had bought a big stack of recent books, esp. <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> monographs, that barely got touched before the semester kicked off. Some great <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fiction</span></a> waiting in the wings, including <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SamanthaHarvey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SamanthaHarvey</span></a>'s *Orbital*!</p><p>(I did start *Snow Country* by <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/KawabataYasunari" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KawabataYasunari</span></a> around the start of the year but it is *clearly* not where my brain is at, as I made it halfway, stalled, and may very well DNF it. I've read one or two things from him before and remember enjoying them, so this is likely a time-and-place thing on my part, not a critique of the book.)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/YasunariKawabata" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YasunariKawabata</span></a></p>
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