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: 2026-04-16 11:08:19

• On the acceptance of GenAI | Joep Schuurkes
• Who Goes AI?
• I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech
• The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham
• 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

Books

Last Updated: 2026-04-16 11:07:58

• 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 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