Reading List

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

On The Web

Last Updated: 2026-10-07 17:20:40

• The Test
• Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
• Private Schools Are Bad for Society - by Hamilton Nolan
• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Inside US Military ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
• Killer AI Is Already Here. We’re Using It in Iran. – Mother Jones
• I Watched the Planes Fly Past My Classroom Window. Then Came 25 Years of Grievance
• LeBron James Wants Your Paycheck To Become His Paycheck, By Way Of Polymarket | Defector
• recordsofenemysurveillance.com
• Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids | WIRED
• The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury | Library of Short Stories
• The Real Luxuries In Life | Feld Thoughts
• 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

Books

Last Updated: 2026-10-07 17:20:14

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile by Aaron Naparstek, Doug Gordon, Sarah Goodyear

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