May 2026 Monthly Dump

Sun, 31 May 2026 23:45:00 +0300

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

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May 2026 Monthly Dump

Things I read (and enjoyed)

Links I saved

Books entered my to-read list

Movies entered my watchlist