What I've Been Reading Lately

14 Sep 2025 - William Van Der Laar

Updated daily from my StoryGraph and Pinboard profiles.

On The Web

Last Updated: 2026-03-02 10:49:57

• How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage
• Acting ethically in an imperfect world
• Why LeBron James Ignores Genocide and Stands With Israel | The Nation
• Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
• Illegible perception - Julik Tarkhanov
• The Montana Plan To Kill Citizens United
• NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
• How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers | At a Loss for Words | APM Reports
• Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders | US news | The Guardian
• The world is something that we make | Terminal
• Seeing like a software company
• The ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
• We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now - by Hamilton Nolan
• Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
• Targeted Ohio State professors on the damaging impact of Turning Point's ‘professor watchlist’ – Matter News

Books

Last Updated: 2025-11-22 20:06:59

• When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency by Anna Zivarts
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
• The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
• How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra
• How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
• The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
• Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
• A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, Clifford Harper, John Howe
• Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate by Helen Prejean
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
• Land is a Big Deal by Lars A. Doucet
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder