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  • The Coming Golden Age of Used Books

    From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Mon Nov 24 08:55:01 2025
    The Coming Golden Age of Used Books

    Just as the Great Fire of Rome was a boon for the building trade, so
    too will a modern catastrophe be a boon for used book stores.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/the-coming-golden-age-of-used-books
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  • From Don@3:633/10 to All on Mon Nov 24 18:05:21 2025
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Coming Golden Age of Used Books

    Just as the Great Fire of Rome was a boon for the building trade, so
    too will a modern catastrophe be a boon for used book stores.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/the-coming-golden-age-of-used-books

    Now may be good time to scratch my iconoclastic itch with a return to
    reading, rather than hearing, stories. There's also an AI-proof murder
    mystery Christmas Cosplay in my immediate future.
    Bibi's algorithm [1] adds another accursed aspect to LLMs. Thank God active research pursues 6GW tactics [2] to use against the 5GW deployed
    by Bibi and Christian-Zionist neo-colonialists.

    Note.

    [1] <https://tyt.com/shows/the-young-turks/2025-09-29/clips/netanyahu-admits-he-wants-to-control-tiktok>
    [2] Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in
    Large Language Models
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304>

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  • From William Hyde@3:633/10 to All on Mon Nov 24 16:10:35 2025
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Coming Golden Age of Used Books

    Just as the Great Fire of Rome was a boon for the building trade, so
    too will a modern catastrophe be a boon for used book stores.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/the-coming-golden-age-of-used-books

    Speaking of AI abuse:

    Academia.edu has apparently produced two AI podcasts based on papers on
    which I was first author.

    If anyone sees a podcast with my name attached, please keep in mind that
    I had nothing to do with it.

    William Hyde

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  • From Tony Nance@3:633/10 to All on Mon Nov 24 16:30:17 2025
    On 11/24/25 8:55 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    The Coming Golden Age of Used Books

    Just as the Great Fire of Rome was a boon for the building trade, so
    too will a modern catastrophe be a boon for used book stores.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/the-coming-golden-age-of-used-books

    1) Re: not using YouTube to look for new music
    I have had some success (just some, mind you) in opening/using an
    "Incognito" window in Chrome[1] to do all of my YouTube listening. The "tailored" recommendations come only from what you listen to during that session, which is good (less slop, more relevant recommendations) and
    bad (every session starts from scratch).

    2) Re: Footnote 4
    Since the interWebz are currently claiming that the first word
    processing software for personal computers was "Electric Pencil" in
    1976, I have to agree with your rather surprising point - is it really
    the case that nothing helpful has come along since then?

    Tony
    [1] There are other ways to do the same in other browsers. For example,
    I believe Firefox would call their a "Private" window.

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