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: 2026-10-16 14:39:49
- The Need To Squad Up
- The Test
- Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
- Private Schools Are Bad for Society - by Hamilton Nolan
- Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Inside US Military ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
- Killer AI Is Already Here. We’re Using It in Iran. – Mother Jones
- I Watched the Planes Fly Past My Classroom Window. Then Came 25 Years of Grievance
- LeBron James Wants Your Paycheck To Become His Paycheck, By Way Of Polymarket | Defector
- recordsofenemysurveillance.com
- Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids | WIRED
- The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury | Library of Short Stories
- The Real Luxuries In Life | Feld Thoughts
- Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
- Every Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector
Books
Last Updated: 2026-10-16 14:39:31
Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech by Claire Stapleton
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile by Aaron Naparstek, Doug Gordon, Sarah Goodyear
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency by Anna Zivarts, Dani Simons
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 Christopher L. Hayes
The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
