This is my reading list. You can read about how it works and how I made it. It consists of pages I want to read and, afterwards, my notes on them. To see my collection of generally useful websites, see my bookmarks page.
The List:
- The dark side of Christmas: Inside the factories where children are forced to make gifts and toys (not read|no notes)
- blakewatson.com - MagnoliaJS 2023: The joys of home-cooked apps (not read|no notes)
- The Prophet with Eyes (not read|no notes)
- Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong | WIRED (not read|no notes)
- Gentleman Jack Costumes to go on Display (not read|no notes)
- Famous Actor Almost Hired Hitman (not read|no notes)
- ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on (not read|no notes)
- Donald Triplett, autism’s ‘Case 1,’ dies at 89 | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives (not read|no notes)
- Poetry By Heart (not read|no notes)
- Clive Thompson - Tales of Technology (not read|no notes)
- ScienceDirect (not read|no notes)
- Reliquaires de la Biodiversité- Biodiversity Shrines – Schreine der Artenvielfalt – Petra van Cronenburg (not read|no notes)
- Mayan Encoding Project (not read|no notes)
- Demimonde: The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes | A luxe book of documentary drawings by Suzanne Forbes. 20 years of intimate portraits made live in San Francisco & Berlin fetish clubs and drag shows. (not read|no notes)
- Video: GIFs Are Forever, Let’s Make Them Better! – Cloud Four (not read|no notes)
- Oil and Vinegar - Vim and the Project Drawer (not read|no notes)
- 8 Pillars of Gay Culture (not read|no notes)
- The Nottingham Accessibility Practices (NAPs): Overview - Learning Technology (not read|no notes)
- Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 - Uncanny Magazine (not read|no notes)
- The Chatham House Should Not Rule | Kendra Albert (not read|no notes)
- unix_surrealism (not read|no notes)
- Reuse of research results is rampant (not read|no notes)
- Eradicating Hepatitis C with Bio-Terrorism- DEFCON 32 (not read|no notes)
- Don’t use Vim for the wrong reasons · GitHub (not read|no notes)
- handedness toggle (not read|no notes)
- The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus (not read|no notes)
- We need visual programming. No, not like that. (not read|no notes)
- Sonnet: Against Entropy - Reactor (not read|no notes)
- moosh: the Moo Shell (not read|no notes)
- The Wrong Ideas about the Wrong Things (not read|no notes)
- Home Screen Advantage - How Apple Fucks Over PWAs (not read|no notes)
- Guardian on RadFolk (not read|no notes)
- Teaching Magnetism with Bivectors (not read|no notes)
- U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW Jonathan Chan (not read|no notes)
- J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows | WIRED (not read|no notes)
- That Time Trump Got Shot (not read|no notes)
- Patrick Weaver (not read|no notes)
- PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton (not read|no notes)
- Entering Text to the Terminal is Complicated (not read|no notes)
- What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it? | The Molecular Ecologist (not read|no notes)
- China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend (It’s Keanu Reeves) | WIRED (not read|no notes)
- Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants ‹ Literary Hub (not read|no notes)
- Just a moment... (not read|no notes)
- Queer Shakespeare… ShakesQueer? (not read|no notes)
- North Bennet Street School // The Set Book Interviews – Class of 2024 – Flash of the Hand (not read|no notes)
- A New Way of Thinking About Cancer, Life, the Power of Genes, and DNA, from Philip Ball, Author of How Life Works (not read|no notes)
- Dulce et Decorum est - Wikipedia (not read|no notes)
- Toward a Co-intentional Approach to Assessment (not read|no notes)
- On the Marionette Theatre (not read|no notes)
- Asymptotic Burnout (not read|no notes)
- Carolingian Queen Coin (not read|no notes)
- Hopepunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work by Ada Palmer - (not read|no notes)
- Anglo-Saxon is Problematic (not read|no notes)
- The Many Myths of the Term 'Anglo-Saxon' | Smithsonian (not read|no notes)
- Just a moment... (not read|no notes)
- Out on the Town Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex (not read|no notes)
- Mary, Queen of Scots, sealed her final missive with an intricate spiral letterlock - Ars Technica (not read|no notes)
- Gender egalitarianism made us human: A response to David Graeber & David Wengrow's 'How to change the course of human history' - by Camilla Power | libcom.org (not read|no notes)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War Solves the Time Traveler’s Wife Problem | Den of Geek (not read|no notes)
- In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics (not read|no notes)
- Complicated Evolutionary History of Chilli Peppers (not read|no notes)
- Louis XI (not read|no notes)
- How the Octopus may Change our view of human cognition (not read|no notes)
- Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature (not read|no notes)
- Nine Brains Are Better Than One: An Octopus’ Nervous System | Biomechanics in the Wild (not read|no notes)
- Toxic talents of Britain's cyanide moths | Natural History Museum (not read|no notes)
- Frodo and Sam’s gay romance in Lord of the Rings is more than a theory | Polygon (not read|no notes)
- How to be Useless (not read|no notes)
- SFF Writing for White Goblins: Decolonising your Defaults - SFWA (not read|no notes)
- What Makes an Optimistic Vision of the Future (not read|no notes)
- America Is Bad at Building Power Lines. We Can Fix That. - The Atlantic (not read|no notes)
- How to Put Out Democracy's Dumpster Fire - The Atlantic (not read|no notes)
- Tamsyn Muir Interview: “There is a lot of blood on my dance floor.” – Three Crows Magazine – Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine (not read|no notes)
- Censorship and Genre Fiction—Let’s Broaden our Broader Reality - Uncanny Magazine (not read|no notes)
- Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress | WIRED (not read|no notes)
- The Wikipedia Entry for Guam, Retold as a YA Novel -The Toast (not read|no notes)
- Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” As I Understand It -The Toast (not read|no notes)
- First as Tragedy, Then as Fascism | Alex Amend (not read|no notes)
- Hubble’s Constant Explained (not read|no notes)
- Hubble’s Constant Explained Paper (not read|no notes)
- Through a Thousand Eyes - Uncanny Magazine (not read|no notes)
- Fear Death by Water, by Arkady Martine - The Deadlands (not read|no notes)
- Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination | Scientific American (not read|no notes)
- Lycidas | The Poetry Foundation (not read|no notes)
- The Year in Physics | Quanta Magazine (not read|no notes)
- Room-temperature dynamic nuclear polarization enhanced NMR spectroscopy of small biological molecules in water (not read|no notes)
- Transparency? Not from the European Commission (not read|no notes)
- CBE--Life Sciences Education (LSE) (not read|no notes)
- The mind-blowing thing we get WRONG about energy - YouTube (not read|no notes)
- Körber Prize 2024: Awards ceremony at Hamburg City Hall - YouTube (not read|no notes)
- A parody of yourself | Seth's Blog (not read|no notes)
- Glue Work (not read|no notes)
- We don't need a boss, we need a process | Miriam Eric Suzanne (not read|no notes)
- “Buying a Book in Early Modern England” - YouTube (not read|no notes)
- Put a Coin in the Pronoun Jar (not read|no notes)
- The Last Swim (not read|no notes)
- Thermal transistor could cool down computer chips – Physics World (not read|no notes)
- Through turbulent skies: how fluid dynamics experts are uncovering the secrets of bird flight – Physics World (not read|no notes)
- Garlic Mesh Bag Earrings (not read|no notes)
- DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow - YouTube (not read|no notes)
- Kober’s kugelrohr (not read|no notes)
- Phineas Fisher, Hacktivism, and Magic Tricks (not read|no notes)
- GitHub - sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree: A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own. (not read|no notes)
- The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds (not read|no notes)
- Garyr Klein, Seeing the Invisible (not read|no notes)
- How physicist Sameera Moussa went from a role model to a mystery - Ars Technica (not read|no notes)
- Jürgen Habermas: The important thinker’s rise to the pinnacle of philosophy | Culture | EL PAÍS English (not read|no notes)
- Pirouette Machines. Fluid Components (not read|no notes)
- NYT - Luddite Club (not read|no notes)
- History of Processed World Magazine (not read|no notes)
- Phineas Fisher - Hack Back (not read|no notes)
- Hack Back — A DIY Guide (Hacking Team) | The Anarchist Library (not read|no notes)
- ‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth (not read|no notes)
- Assorted (unsorted) thoughts about trauma-informed research (not read|no notes)
- Building Ultra Long Range TOSLINK (not read|no notes)
- Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases (not read|no notes)
- On Not Scaling Lurk (not read|no notes)
- Why Some DVLA Services Close at Night (not read|no notes)
- Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model - Wikipedia (not read|no notes)
- Luigi Russolo, Futurist and Fascist – Alex McLean (not read|no notes)
- A Rant About Technology (not read|no notes)
- books i read in january and thoughts on medicine and literacy (not read|no notes)
- Spin-enhanced nanodiamond biosensing for ultrasensitive diagnostics | Nature (not read|no notes)
- Riot Medicine | Hakan Geijer (not read|no notes)
- Maia Crimew - Stop Getting into Cyber because of me (11/03/25|notes)
- Optimistic Computing • Steven Deobald (18/02/25|notes)
- Julian Brasington - Sometimes Simple is the Hardest Thing (15/02/25|notes)
- Carpentopod: A walking table project (15/02/25|notes)
- Three Ways to Find Wildness Wherever You Are – Garden & Gun (11/02/25|notes)
- What’s Old Is New | CSS-Tricks (11/02/25|notes)
- The article element: HeydonWorks (09/02/25|notes)
- Cryptographic Right Answers | Latacora (22/01/25|notes)
- Syntax errors for to-do lists — Xavier Lambein's website (22/01/25|notes)
- the wandering ghost | Lia Pas (21/01/25|notes)
- The Women behind 18th century condom making – All Things Georgian (18/01/25|notes)
- Lorna Finlayson, The Sycophant — Sidecar (17/01/25|notes)
- The Third Sex (14/01/25|notes)
- In my eye line (13/01/25|notes)
- You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid | WIRED (08/01/25|notes)
- Non-violence as a societal value (08/01/25|notes)
- Alan Moore on Superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump (08/01/25|notes)
- Ten years against division of labor in software (06/01/25|notes)
- 10 ways to be prepared and grounded it Trump wins | Waging Nonviolence (05/01/25|notes)
- Pity the Nation – Create Protest (04/01/25|notes)
- Trainline accused of ripping off customers and deliberately misleading them - rmt (04/01/25|notes)
- FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS | Hackaday (03/01/25|notes)
- HAPPy Days | Life and Physics (03/01/25|notes)
- Todepond - Cardboard Cutouts (02/01/25|notes)
- Todepond - Two Beat Style (02/01/25|notes)
- Maia Crimew - Anarchism in the Now (02/01/25|notes)
- A gleam of hope: meet the Luddite Club (02/01/25|notes)
- Read Hot Trans - An Album by Sade and Sam Smit (31/12/24|notes)
- Teaching Rotational Physics with Bivectors (31/12/24|notes)
- UK HE shrinking (30/12/24|notes)
- wrttn:04af1a (30/12/24|notes)
- Low Spanish Costs are not About Decentralization | Pedestrian Observations (30/12/24|notes)
- matttproud.com (blog) (30/12/24|notes)
- Falsifiable, by Beatrice Morgan (29/12/24|notes)
- A Graphical Catalogue of Threats to Validity (29/12/24|notes)
- Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ | Culture | EL PAÍS English (29/12/24|notes)
- Factory flowers - beauty and survival in India’s garment factories (28/12/24|notes)
- DocSeuss - I was a Teenage Exocolonist and So Can You (28/12/24|notes)
- The “Princess, Do Your Homework!” Letter – Iris Kamil (28/12/24|notes)
- The History of Beech Caves, Staffordshire: A Story of War, Work, and Wild Nights (27/12/24|notes)
- A practical, biomimetic, one-pot synthesis of firefly luciferin | Scientific Reports (27/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - Building our own private Discord knockoff (27/12/24|notes)
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (27/12/24|notes)
- Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun (27/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - Where I’m at with notetaking apps (25/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - Alpine.js for home-cooked apps (25/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - The making of HTML for People (24/12/24|notes)
- What I think ideas are for (24/12/24|notes)
- Tadi lab (24/12/24|notes) Read: 49 out of 173