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Books

2023-12-31: The Lost Cause - an oddly hopeful story of a climate-change ravaged near future

2023-12-29: Some books about Artificial Intelligence I'd like to read - updated

2023-12-22: Being You: Anil Seth's new theory of consciousness

2023-12-13: πŸ“š Finished reading Zero Days by Ruth Ware. The book opens with Jacintha Cross sneaking around a …

2023-11-28: πŸ“š Finished reading Upgrade by Blake Crouch. I read and enjoyed “Recursion” by the same …

2023-11-28: "The Extended Mind" teaches us how to improve our thinking in some counterintuitive ways

2023-11-27: Everyone was right, The Three-Body Problem is great

2023-11-25: β€œThe Data Warehouse Toolkit” teaches us dimensional modelling and the Kimball method of data warehouse design

2023-11-15: Crime and Punishment - the original psychological thriller

2023-11-15: We Are Bellingcat: Bellingcat's origin story and how they do what they do

2023-11-02: Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, …

2023-10-12: πŸ“š Finished reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Rich young partygirl Noemi - more used to …

2023-09-15: Liz Truss is writing a new book 😟

2023-09-04: Q by Christine Dalcher reminds us of the dangers of taking meritocracy too far

2023-08-14: Maus: The Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel that portrays the horrors of the Second World War

2023-07-30: Should one have the need to mass-download their Kindle books from Amazon without a ton of clicking …

2023-07-24: Mary Pilon reveals the real story behind the monopolising of Monopoly

2023-07-20: Terrible AI-written books hit the Kindle Unlimited best-seller lists

2023-07-05: πŸ“š Finished reading 11.22.63 by Stephen King. Jake Epping, a down-on-his-luck teacher, is recruited …

2023-07-04: πŸ“š Finished reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. In this novel, Martin Hench is an almost-retired …

2023-06-18: Jenara Nerenberg asks us to consider a different type of diversity in "Divergent Mind"

2023-05-23: πŸ“š Finished reading Cat Pictures Please and Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer. These …

2023-04-30: Nate Silver implores us to adopt Bayesian thinking in order to distinguish signal from noise

2023-04-21: Unlawful Killings: Insights into the life of a Crown Court judge from Wendy Joseph

2023-04-16: The arguments for prison abolition: thoughts from "We Do This 'Til We Free Us"