What I've Been Reading Lately

14 Sep 2025 - William Van Der Laar

Updated daily from my StoryGraph and Pinboard profiles.

On The Web

• The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape :: BogdanTheGeek's Blog
• The White Civility Council
• A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide
• The walled garden at the end of the Internet | Denim & Tweed

Books

• 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