Conflated Automatons

Confucian Software is a book of commentaries on The Analects from the perspective of modern software.

Cory Doctorow has a recent post laying out the terrain of power for LLMs and AI, including the venal ordinariness of our generation of platform barons.

From Chronosis, by Negarestani, Tilford and Mackay In Beyond A Boundary, the blend of memoir, politics, history and criticism sometimes called the greatest book written on sport, CLR James takes some time to argue cricket is an art form.

Manchukuo 1987, yoshimi red I picked up Manchukuo 1987 as a low stakes pulp alt-history wheeze by an amusing internet rando.

I have a new piece out at Diffractions Collective, Delirious Microservices.

Peter Hamilton – Pandora’s Star Commonwealth Saga, Book One, -Ish Pandora’s Star has very solid speculative premise, namely, what if trains, but in space, and the promise of a hard SF mechanic underlying it had me quickly mashing the buy button.

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I always find it interesting to dig into the problems pioneers in a field thought they were solving.

A River With A City Problem – Margaret Cook (2019) Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson (2021) Last year I fled my house due to rising floodwaters, and soon after, my daughter’s cricket team finished up for the season.

Joan Didion – The White Album Everyone that writes about Didion seems to pick her up because of her role as a cultural critic, and a bagful of other MFA student values.