Dan Barnett
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Thriller imagines state run by AI | The Biblio File (opens the original)
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“A government directed primarily by algorithms, focused above all else on maximizing measurable outcomes,” writes retired Butte College administrator and West Point grad Les Jauron, “might become remarkably efficient. It could also become remarkably indifferent to the individual.” Just what that might look like takes Jauron from his Author’s Note to the chilling tale of “The Resurrection Institute” ($9.99 in paperback, independently published; also for Amazon Kindle). It is the near future, and
Book in Common analyzes boosters and doomers of AI | The Biblio File (opens the original)
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The Book in Common for the current academic year at Chico State and Butte College lands in the middle of contentious claims from employees (and ex-employees) of OpenAI and Anthropic, Google Gemini and xAI, that autonomous AI agents will either cure cancer or destroy humanity. But the authors of “The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype And Create The Future We Want” ($32 in hardcover from HarperCollins; also for Amazon Kindle), linguist Emily Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna, call foul on both
‘Tales From Tehama, Vol. 1’: History with sax appeal | The Biblio File (opens the original)
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By Dan BarnettPUBLISHED: September 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM PDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...On February 3, 2024, the Red Bluff Daily News featured the first of a weekly 600-word column celebrating Tehama County’s history. Its author, Josie Reifschneider-Smith, longtime board member of the Tehama County Genealogical & Historical Society, has now collected the first 52 columns in “Tales From Tehama, Vol. 1” ($20 in paperback from Tehama County Genealogical And Historical Society, an impri
Novelist weaves miracles, malevolence and music into trilogy’s finale | The Biblio File (opens the original)
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The Botswana Free Press newspaper lards unbridled praise on the country’s Interior Minister, Sir Bitrus Bitrus Ghirmai, who provides free electricity for its citizens and, through the Botswana Academy for Science and Technology, is engaged in animal DNA manipulation so all animals might “live in peace and harmony with each other.” And yet a letter writer claims Lord Ghirmai’s manor “concealed a sex trafficking operation under the pretense of helping orphaned children.” Enter the New Freedom Warr
A messy, nostalgic love story | The Biblio File (opens the original)
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Chicoan Pamela Dean, “raised in Redding and later escaping to Chico for college … writes the kind of love stories she grew up on: a little messy, a little nostalgic, and a lot more fun without Wi-Fi.” It’s the mid-1990s in the little (fictional) town of Bower, which is near the (real) town of Gridley. A thriving farming community back in 1985, something had happened. “Farms that once thrived have folded. Processing plants are shuttered.” Unbeknownst to our 28-year-old hero, Sam Ford, his family
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