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_____ ______ _____ _____ _ _ _____ _____ | __ \| ____| /\ | __ \_ _| \ | |/ ____|/ ____| | |__) | |__ / \ | | | || | | \| | | __| (___ | _ /| __| / /\ \ | | | || | | . ` | | |_ |\___ \ | | \ \| |____ / ____ \| |__| || |_| |\ | |__| |____) | |_| \_\______/_/ \_\_____/_____|_| \_|\_____|_____/ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ |______|______|______|______|______|______|______|______| A list of things I have been reading. Presence on this list does not necessarily mean that I particularly liked it, but if I did you will see an asterisk (*) at the end, and if I really liked it, maybe a couple asterisks (**). Things I am interested in reading are marked [todo], things I started are marked [started], and things I likely won't finish are marked [incomplete].

[01] The Promise Of Defeat, by Moxie Marlinspike [02] An Anarchist Critique of Democracy, by Moxie Marlinspike and Windy Hart * [03] Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss ** [04] REVIEW: Worse Boyfriend Ever, by Donald Boat [incomplete] [05] Julia, by Fernando Borretti ** [06] Ra, by qntm [incomplete] [07] The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz * [a] “Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults? I find it hard to imagine.” [08] Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (+ hyperbolic geometry), by Luca Happel [todo] [09] moby dick erasure poetry, by Jaye Chen [incomplete] [10] Xenoactualization, by Vie McCoy * [11] The AI Apocalypse, by Ruby Thelot [12] Creative Thinking, by Claude Shannon [a] Some light biological determinism (eugenics?) but a reasonable list of things to try if you are stuck on a problem. [13] How to train the best embedding model in the world, by Jack Morris [todo] [14] How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research), by Nicholas Carlini [started] [15] Disassemble Z80 instructions by changing the font, by Adafruit Industries [16] This Journalist Smoked Crack So He Could Write This Article, by Jefferson Morley * [a] What Crack is Like? | Video | C-SPAN.org [17] How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict, by Lisa Hix [started] [18] Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson ** [19] JPEG compression, by Sophie Wang * [20] The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison [todo] [21] The internet is already over, by Sam Kriss * [22] How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs, by Malmesbury [todo] [23] Claude, you are a cutie-pie, by Margaret Atwood * [a] R.U.R by Karel Čapek - Wikipedia [b] Descent of Inanna into the Underworld - Wikipedia ** [24] Why Mathematica does not simplify Sinh[ArcCosh[x]], by John D. Cook [25] A Witch-Hunt on Instagram, by Katherine Jebsen Moore [todo] [26] Letter to a PhD student, by David Bessis [27] AI Identity and the Megapolitics of the Mind, by Alisa Esage [incomplete] [28] The Internet is Made of Demons, by Sam Kriss ** [a] “You have no free speech — not because someone might ban your account, but because there’s a vast incentive structure in place that constantly channels your speech in certain directions. And unlike overt censorship, it’s not a policy that could ever be changed, but a pure function of the connectivity of the internet itself.” [b] The Lesser Key of Solomon - Wikipedia [todo] [c] List of sigils of demons - Wikipedia [d] Goetia - Wikipedia [todo] [29] Who Watches the Provers? by Leonardo de Moura * [30] Selection-free whole genome transplantation revives dead microbes, by Seildel et. al [todo] [a] Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology, by Sophia Roosth [todo] [31] The Problem Isn't Polyamory. It's Lindy West, by Katherine Dee [todo] [32] The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Walter Benjamin [started] [33] Can Before and After Be Superposed? by Sophia Chen [todo] [a] Summary of Richter et. al (2026) [34] Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism, by Gil Duran [todo] [35] The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, by Emily Martin [todo] [36] Formalization of QFT. by Douglas et. al [todo] [a] Formalization of QFT? by Peter Woit * [37] San Francisco's DNA is mischief, by Zelda Poem [a] “The tech boom didn’t kill San Francisco’s soul by bringing tech to the city. It killed it by bringing normies in patagonia vests.” [38] The Decline of Deviance, by Adam Mastroianni [a] “[Arturo di Modica]’s most famous work, the Charging Bull statue that now lives on Wall Street, was deposited there without permission or payment; it was originally impounded before public outcry caused the city to put it back. [...] ‘Fearless Girl’, the statue of a girl standing defiantly with her hands on her hips that was installed in front of the bull in 2017, was commissioned by an investment company to promote a new index fund.” [39] The beauty of concrete, by Samuel Hughes [todo] [40] Transference in the Afternoon, by Jesse Barron ** [41] Group and semigroup puzzles and a possible Polymath project, by Timothy Gowers * [a] It seems like this can be thought of as determining membership in a formal language associated with the structure of the group. I feel like there might be results from formal language theory for this problem (particularly regarding decidability)? [42] The Ozempic theory of societal change, by Hazn [a] Ultrasound Neuromodulation, by Sarah Constantin [43] Semiotic Triage, by Vie McCoy ** [a] “However, oftentimes, a great tragedy has occurred: in your attempt to understand something, you have killed what made it worth looking at. In your attempt to eff the ineffable, you really effed up.” [44] Research Papers Used to Have Style. What Happened? by Roger’s Bacon * [a] “Nature did not require external pre-publication review until 1973.” [b] The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme, by (Stephen Jay) Gould & Lewontin [todo] [45] Social implications of intelligent machines, Margaret Bowden (1978) [started] [46] The Nature of Gothic, by John Ruskin (See Ch. 4) [todo] [47] Toast, or, The Golems, by Daniel Litt * [48] Against American Diner Gothic, by Katherine Dee [todo] [49] https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791