Finished reading:
Wasteland Warlords series, book 1.
Wasteland Warlords 1
by James A. Hunter and Eden Hudson.
Published 2023. 150 pages.
Started July 6, 2026; completed July 6, 2026.
Posted: July 7, 2026 at 4:04 AM UTC.
Tagged: fantasy, litRPG, post-apocalyptic.
Finished reading:
Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains series, book 3.
Kiosk Kingdom
by James A. Hunter.
Published March 31, 2026. 680 pages.
Started June 25, 2026; completed July 6, 2026.
Posted: July 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM UTC.
Tagged: fantasy, humor, litRPG.
maybe they outsourced to ChatGPT the job of checking there haven't been any other projects with names like terra/luna that would evoke extremely negative reactions
Started reading:
Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains series, book 3.
Kiosk Kingdom
by James A. Hunter.
Published March 31, 2026. 680 pages.
Started June 25, 2026.
Posted: June 26, 2026 at 2:38 AM UTC.
Tagged: fantasy, humor, litRPG.
Finished reading:
Kay Scarpetta series, book 16.
Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell.
Published 2008. 500 pages.
Started June 21, 2026; completed June 25, 2026.
Posted: June 26, 2026 at 2:22 AM UTC.
Tagged: crime, mystery, thriller.
Finished reading:
Kay Scarpetta series, book 15.
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell.
Published 2007. 511 pages.
Started June 20, 2026; completed June 21, 2026.
Posted: June 22, 2026 at 12:12 AM UTC.
Tagged: crime, mystery, thriller.
Finished reading:
Kay Scarpetta series, book 14.
Predator
by Patricia Cornwell.
Published 2005. 453 pages.
Started June 19, 2026; completed June 20, 2026.
Posted: June 21, 2026 at 1:25 AM UTC.
Tagged: crime, mystery, thriller.
Setting aside the absurd premise of this op-ed, I love that the writer felt the need to hedge with "not that has been reported"
"No one's reported that one of the most famous popstars in the world dated a man who at the time was a random oyster farmer from Maine, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE"
Read:
“MAGA Pronatalism is Anti-Freedom No Matter the Packaging”.
Anne Lutz Fernandez in Nobody Wants This. Published June 15, 2026.
But its sanewashing is underway
Posted: June 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM UTC.
Tagged: extremism, women's rights.
Read:
“Anthropic's Safety Superpower”.
Ben Thompson in Stratechery. Published June 15, 2026.
Here’s the thing about these safety justifications: I think they work because, to Anthropic, they aren’t justifications. The company really believes that they are the only ones...
Read:
“Choosing to Stay Human”.
Ethan Mollick in One Useful Thing. Published May 26, 2026.
To be clear, I am cool with a lot of cognitive surrender. I don’t remember phone numbers anymore because my phone does that for me. I am happy my kids didn’t need to learn cursiv...
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“Why "Book-Shaming" Won't Solve the Children's Literacy Crisis”.
Jessica Winter in The New Yorker. Published June 12, 2026.
Barnett’s concerns about literary merit and professional esteem may be timeless, but they are not terribly timely; they seem to float high above the current on-the-ground realities of what many educators and researchers agree to be a literacy crisis. In urging his audience to see children’s books as “real books,” Barnett skips over larger, more pressing questions about why so many children aren’t reading books at all, real or otherwise.
Posted: June 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC.
Tagged: books, education, reading.
Tiffany Muller talks to me about what Citizens United enabled, how crypto and AI fit into the bigger picture of money in politics, and what it would actually take to fix this broken system.
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“Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don't”.
Tom Bergin, Michelle Conlin, Koh Qing, and Tom Wilson in Reuters. Published June 9, 2026.
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, a Reuters examination found.
Posted: June 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM UTC.
Tagged: corruption, crypto, Donald Trump.
Finished reading:
Disco Space Opera series, book 3.
Rumor Has It
by Cat Rambo.
Published 2024.
Started April 24, 2026; completed June 8, 2026.
Posted: June 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM UTC.
Tagged: LGBT, science fiction, space opera.
my last name has wound up on some campaign database without my first name, so i keep hitting unsubscribe pages that ask "Not white? Please don't use this form"
Read:
“Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing”.
Jill Walker Rettberg in her blog. Published May 13, 2026.
A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text.
Posted: May 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM UTC.
Tagged: artificial intelligence.
A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial.
This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary.
A crypto billionaire who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects is now accusing them of fraud
i like to think if anyone ever hacks my Google account they'll get totally derailed trying to decipher my hundreds of spreadsheets that all look something like this
The website promises “elite and extraordinary experiences” as part of the newest scheme to revive a token that’s down 97% from its peak and still falling.
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