2024-12-25: 📚 Want to read: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly. I’ve a feeling this book might reinforce my fears …

2024-12-22: 📚 Want to read: Steadfast Self-Hosting by Adam Monsen. Sounds like it may be a decent intro to the …

2024-12-17: 📚Want to read: Julia by Sandra Newman. George Orwell’s 1984, but told from the viewpoint of …

2024-12-08: 📚 Finished reading Depraved New World by John Crace. John Crace is a political sketch writer for the …

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2024-12-06: Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion is a handy guide to the world of single malts

2024-11-22: Islands of Abandonment is a surprisingly hopeful tale of what happens to places when humans leave

2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing …

2024-11-09: In Rough Justice, a Crown Court judge looks at how we treat crime committed by, or against, women

2024-10-19: New Scientist Live show 2024 books list

2024-10-17: Added a few more books to my absolutely unrealistic “Books about AI I want to read” …

2024-10-15: Ken Follett's Fall of Giants tells fictional-but-realistic stories of family life in the early twentieth century

2024-10-04: 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' explains why Big Tech does what it does, and why it's dangerous

2024-09-01: Another great free e-books offer from Verso, a publisher that continues to release at least one book …

2024-08-25: Station Eleven is a highly compelling novel about humanity in the age of a very deadly pandemic

2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …

2024-08-14: 📚 Finished reading Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Colin Barrow. At …

2024-08-09: 📚 Finished reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway. Sci-fi detective noir, what’s not to love …

2024-08-06: One of my favourite publishers in terms of their typical subject matter, Verso Books, is temporarily …

2024-08-01: Naomi Alderman's 'The Future' further fed my big tech scepticism

2024-06-28: Rory Stewart's book reveals the total dysfunction behind Britain's political system

2024-06-04: Free music streaming and more from your local library

2024-06-02: Professor Etchells explains his personal experience and the scientific research around playing computer games

2024-05-15: Between Death and Life shares interview transcripts from people who claim to know what happens after you die

2024-05-13: Publishers are receiving a deluge of AI-generated dross