Reading List

What I’ve read lately. Data pulled from my StoryGraph and Pinboard profiles.

On The Web

Last Updated: 2026-09-04 14:05:40

• Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
• Every Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector
• RFK Jr.’s Toxic World - by Alan Elrod - The Bulwark
• Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.
• SF drone arrest mistook handshake for drug sale, attorney says
• Jason Arday's marathon challenge and other claims found to be true after his death | Middle East Eye
• I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip - some thoughts about simpler computers
• 'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
• Riding a bike for an hour extends cyclist's life by same time, say Dutch researchers - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc
• 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

Books

Last Updated: 2026-09-04 14:05:05

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