Books

2025-09-06

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.

2025-08-25: πŸ“š Finished reading Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton.

2025-08-25: πŸ“š Finished reading Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough.

2025-08-16: πŸ“š Finished reading America, AmΓ©rica by Greg Grandin.

2025-08-03: πŸ“š Want to read: Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp. The usual cheery reading. Luke Kemp surveys the …

2025-06-28: πŸ“š Finished listening to The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman.

2025-06-12: πŸ“š Finished reading Conclave by Robert Harris.

2025-06-10: πŸ“š Finished reading: Unhinged: A Parody by Ian Martin.

2025-05-31: πŸ“š Finished listening to You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes.

2025-05-11: πŸ“šFinished reading Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid.

2025-04-29: πŸ“š Finished reading: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson.

2025-04-27: πŸ“š Want to read: Erasing History by Jason Stanley. Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the …

2025-04-27: πŸ“š Finished listening to Jung - A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens.

2025-04-26: πŸ“š Finished reading Autocracy, Inc.

2025-04-25: πŸ“š Finished reading Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments by Ron Kohavi.

2025-04-24: πŸ“š Want to read: Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman. The British …

2025-04-18: πŸ“š Finished listening to Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes.

2025-04-14

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads: Another American import we really don’t need.

2025-04-06: πŸ“šFinished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance.

2025-04-06: πŸ“š Want to read: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. …a once-in-a-generation, …

2025-04-05: How to download and remove the DRM from your Kindle books even after the great download-via-USB shutdown

2025-03-23: πŸ“š Finished listening to You by Caroline Kepnes.

2025-03-16: πŸ“š Want to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. …exposes both the personal and …

2025-03-08: πŸ“š Finished reading The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale.

2025-03-06: πŸ“š Finished reading Severance - The Lexington Letter by Anonymous.