Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.
Books
2025-10-25: Tell Me an Ending is a fascinating sci-fi exploration of what it might mean if we could erase our memories
2025-10-02: 📚 Finished reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. I’d heard grim and dark things about this …
2025-09-06
2025-08-25: 'Putin's People' gives you a detailed background of Putin's rise to power, and the causes of some of the consequent horrors
2025-08-25: In 'Butler to the World', Bullough elucidates Britain's apparent ambition to be a facilitator to any corrupt billionaire that'll pay enough
2025-08-16: America, América by Greg Grandin is an exceptional retelling of the history of the Americas, with great relevance to the world today
2025-08-03: 📚 Want to read: Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp. The usual cheery reading. Luke Kemp surveys the …
2025-06-28: Mustafa Suleyman shares a dramatic warning about our future with AI and synthetic biology in 'The Coming Wave'
2025-06-12: 📚 Finished reading Conclave by Robert Harris. I joined the macabre throng of people who suddenly …
2025-06-10: 📚 Finished reading: Unhinged: A Parody by Ian Martin. This is a short satirical book on the subject …
2025-05-31: 📚 Finished listening to You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes. Apparentlyy I’m addicted to these …
2025-05-11: 📚Finished reading Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid. This short book tells a new episode from the world …
2025-04-29: Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk is a somewhat hagiographic telling of his life up until 2023.
2025-04-27: 📚 Want to read: Erasing History by Jason Stanley. Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the …
2025-04-27: Jung - A Very Short Introduction is a useful brief on key Jungian concepts
2025-04-26: Autocracy, Inc. elucidates the workings of the modern-day autocrats and how we might fight against them
2025-04-25: The Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments book is worth a read for anyone involved in carrying them out
2025-04-24: 📚 Want to read: Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman. The British …
2025-04-18: 📚 Finished listening to Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes. This is the second book in the …
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: Hillbilly Elegy is an entirely unsurprising polemic from the VP of the US
2025-04-06: 📚 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: 📚 Finished listening to You by Caroline Kepnes. This is the book behind the TV show …
2025-03-16: 📚 Want to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. …exposes both the personal and …