Reading List

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

On The Web

Last Updated: 2026-07-21 11:49:09

• New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy | Charlie Kirk shooting | The Guardian
• AI firms and their US military ties, "a whole civilization will die tonight" edition
• You need to meal-plan your media diet
• The Fairplayer Story – NHAM
• henry-george-and-the-catholic-church
• Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
• Following Patreon Creators via RSS
• Your Software Is Not Sentient
• Rift · For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work. | Christopher Meiklejohn
• No one can force me to have a secure website!!! - Tom 7, Sigbovik 2026
• Google Drops Out of Pentagon Drone Swarm Contest After Advancing - Bloomberg
• Wexner, redacted – Matter News
• Everyone Survives White House Correspondents' Association Dinner | Defector
• Kill Yr Substack | Jason Cosper
• On the acceptance of GenAI | Joep Schuurkes

Books

Last Updated: 2026-07-21 11:48:44

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