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@otterlove we shall see! Eventually, when I finish the 5 books I'm currently reading...

Is that an alien robot dolphin? I don't need to know anything about it

@kiwi@kolektiva.social @SallyStrange Not to be a one man recommendation algorithm, but you may also like The Cointelpro Papers by Ward Churchill. It may be a bit out of date by now (just because it's old), but it was the first thing I read about federal repression in this era. Found out about it from Rage Against the Machine's reading list.

@kiwi@kolektiva.social @OneMillionMice oh I've heard about that but never got around to it. Good reminder, thanks

@MedeaVanamonde@beige.party @timberwraith@mastodon.social there's always room for more apocalypse

Authored by a team of practicing psychologists, this book aims to propose a useful framework for how people successfully change themselves by mapping techniques (e.g. consciousness raising, rewards) to stages of change (e.g. planning, action). It claims that while different schools of psychology disagree on the reasons that people want to change, the overall methods of each school on helping people change are the same in the abstract. It's crucial that the techniques used match the stage of change, or the person is more likely to fail.

It uses quitting smoking and weight loss as its main examples in these early chapters. It also notes that in spite of the fact that they have a linear list of phases in change, that people tend to slide up and down the phases instead of move through them sequentially.

As someone who's currently trying to quit smoking... Relatable.

@kingrat@sfba.club Yeah, it's deeply frustrating. I think the problem is that people just create a new book entry or the duplicate maybe gets imported from somewhere else? Ideally different editions should be on the same book, e.g. sfba.club/book/2692/editions?

My dream is that bookwyrm lets us merge duplicate authors and books together. I wish I had the energy to implement that myself. It doesn't seem like it's going anywhere: github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/1119