A searchable database of award-winning nonfiction books that aggregates records from major literary prizes like the National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize, and others, allowing readers, researchers, and librarians to discover prize-recognized books by subject, award, and publisher.

Fun way to find 'what to read next'.

An analysis of over 50,000 boat names extracted from NOAA's AIS vessel traffic data, exploring the creative, humorous, and pop-culture-inspired names that boat owners choose, alongside insights into who owns boats in the United States.

An important dataset, but the all-time best boat name of all time is clearly: Earn Trussed.

"Everything I Know" refers to a series of recordings by Buckminster Fuller, a comprehensive collection of his ideas and philosophy captured over an extended lecture session. The Buckminster Fuller Institute provides information about this landmark series in which Fuller synthesized his lifetime of thinking on design, systems, and humanity's future.

So great.

In both cases, the country is celebrating a major birthday in the midst of a rising stock market and widespread fears of "technological unemployment" (mechanical power then vs. AI now); giddy wealth is coiled with economic anxiety; technology has transformed the way that people get information, mind-wiring us to a global cacophony of far-flung emotions (radio then vs. social media now).

What the techno-determinism angle misses is: Why did these technologies catch on in the first place? Not every technology people have invented has caught on the way these forms have. They caught on in large part because of this impulse people have to live in a uni-context.

AI Doomerism = a Secular Apocalypse Narrative. Practically, the "AI doom gospel" translates traditional religious forms into technical language. In the rationalist/effective altruist discourse, God becomes a superintelligence, prophecy becomes timelines and probability estimates, and hell becomes human extinction from AI.

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