Read & enjoyed:

• Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination: Scott Alexander on Frankfurt School
• Who Took A Sh*t In The Austrian Pavilion?: An inquiry into the curious incident at the Venice Biennale.
• Programmer Science Fiction
• The Collision of Lacan and Deleuze: Desire in Ballard’s Crash
• notes on gooning
• Book Review: Red Plenty

Also see the blog posts I saved in my Junited page.

Bookmarked:

• The Bash Hackers Wiki
• The cave of forgotten films
• Cool visualizations
• Berkeley Mono: - I don’t feel rich enough to spend $75 on a font even though it looks stunning.
• F*CKSignups: A curated collection of open-source tools you can use instantly in your browser. no accounts, no emails, no tracking.
• Cara: A social media and portfolio-sharing platform for artists and art enthusiasts.
• diffshub: View code changes from any public GitHub diff—PRs, comparisons, commits, diffs, and patches—with a super-freaking-fast, beautiful, and virtualized interface.
• Semble: A social knowledge network for creators.
• ascorbic/cirrus: A single-user ATProto PDS that runs on a Cloudflare Worker.
• Discord alternatives: https://mony.lol/, https://fluxer.app/
• Wikipedia’s Signs of AI Writing
• Snake Awakening: A snake game where the rules keep changing and every apple you eat takes you deeper into the existential spiral.
• thi.ng: Open source building blocks for computational design & art.
• Gravity: Very cool set of animations that explains gravity.
• PerformativeUI: This frontend components library was meant to be a joke but it looks so good!
• Sem: Semantic understanding on top of Git (not AI).
• Public Domain Image Archive: Hand-picked collection of 11,082 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse.
• Shut Up: Disable comment sections on various browsers.
• Society Explained: Brief explanations of influential theories on how society does and should work.
• Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
• Cheese Paper: A text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction.

Added to my to-read list:

• Party Work in the Masses by Vladimir Lenin
• Story of Cybernetics by Maurice Trask
• Friedrich Nietzsche by Julian Young
• Games Primates Play by Dario Maestripieri
• Honolulu by Alan Brennert
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
• Art Since 1900 by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss et al.

Added to my watchlist:

• Hokum (2026), directed by Damian McCarthy
• READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME (2026), directed by Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
• Hardcore (1979), directed by Paul Schrader
• SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (1989), directed by Steven Soderbergh
• The Beast (1975), directed by Walerian Borowczyk

Things I read (and enjoyed)

• The Combahee River Collective Statement: Founding text of identity politics by a collective run by Black Lesbian women.
• On Revolution: A cybernetic look at revolution.
• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

In a technopoly, the only ideas and thoughts that have social and cultural legitimacy are those that support, are supported by, and are mediated through technology.

• Scott Alexander on taste: Contra Everyone on Taste, Three Model Organisms for Taste and Nostalgebraist’s Hydrogen Jukeboxes
• Remarks on Gender
• What Deontological Bars?

Links I saved

• Hacker Jargon
• StumbleTV: Roulette for the public internet’s accidentally-open webcams.
• gecit: DPI bypass tool - eBPF on Linux, TUN on macOS/Windows.
• Monitor every stock trade Congress makes
• meditype: Read books by typing passages one by one.
• Are.na personals: Personal introductions/requests on are.na
• The Strategy & Planning Scrapbook: A curated collection of strategy frameworks, creative provocations, and planning tools.
• The Virtual OS Museum: If a working version of an operating system exists somewhere, the goal is to have it here, in a form anyone can run on a reasonably modern laptop/desktop.
• Museum of the Human Web
• Today’s Rothko: Daily Rothko matching the temperature, brightness and the mood of the day.
• url.town: a web directory, curated by members of the omg.lol community.
• TogetherLetters: Everyone in your group writes a short update. They compile it into one beautiful newsletter and deliver it automatically.
• KWSX: WEBSEX RADIO
• Radio Venus: radio according to your zodiac

Books entered my to-read list

• One Man’s View of the World by Lee Kuan Yew
• How China Became Capitalist by Ronald Coase and Wang Yin
• The New China Playbook by Xin Kewu
• River Town by Peter Hessler
• Has China Won? by Kishore Mahbubani
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
• Illumine Lingao by Xiao Feng
• Spinoza, Atheist by Steven Nadler
• Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior by Christopher Boehm
• Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer
• Symptom Invented: Lacan and the History of Marxism by Max Maher
• Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian

Movies entered my watchlist

• Femme Fatale (2002), directed by Brian De Palma
• The Conformist (1970), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci