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: 2026-08-19 10:32:20

• Utah Passes Nation’s Strongest Digital Identity Bill | American Civil Liberties Union
• We’re privacy hawks. Here’s why we’re alarmed by license plate readers, and not necessarily by speed cameras - ACLU of Massachusetts
• In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots
• The System From Nowhere
• Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio’s ICE offices and wear ankle monitors
• Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
• What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor? - Dhole Moments
• Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out – Krebs on Security
• The Williamsburg parking lot that used to be sixteen apartments
• Is AI Profitable Yet?
• Ordinary Abundance
• I'm done using AI – Brett Codes
• Vintage Technology Daydreams: Byte Magazine's Extraordinary Cover Illustrations | Futurism
• Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
• Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | WIRED

Books

Last Updated: 2026-08-19 10:32:05

The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset by Mike Bird

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow

Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

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 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