Thomas Gerdes
Thomas Gerdes
@thomasgerdes@thomasgerdes.de

Blog posts from https://thomasgerdes.de. All about Library, Photography and Miscellanea.

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  • Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

    “Nervous Conditions” by Tsitsi Dangarembga on my booklog. My rating: 4 of 5 stars.

  • On Chris Hayes, The Sirens’ Call

    Quote from Chris Hayes’s ‘The Siren’s Call’ on information abundance and attention scarcity. Hayes reveals why our focus has become the world’s most valuable and endangered resource.

  • The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes

    “The Sirens’ Call” by Chris Hayes on my booklog. My rating: 4 of 5 stars.

  • AI fiction

    At this year’s German Library Congress in Bremen, several of my colleagues gave readings from books they had written. Unfortunately, I am not a writer. However, I did experiment with using AI to ‘write’ a short story in the style of Edgar Allan Poe with a library theme.

  • Wappen von Hamburg I

    “Wappen von Hamburg I”. Hamburg, 18 June 2025.