4. Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

3. Solaris

2. Stoner

1. Orbital

An ongoing thread of books I’ve read in 2025:

happy new year from adelaide, australia!

2024 Reading Roundup My personal standouts from a year of reading

Wrote a quick roundup of my 2024 reading habits and some of my favourite books I read this year:
moderatelyoffline.substack.com/p/2024-readi...

32. Nausea

31. Utopia

Continuing on with my reads for this year - 30. The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

GENDEMA - KARAMBIT [Full album] YouTube video by GENDEMA

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too many econ/social science books read make me a dull and technocratic man

maybe a bit early for this sort of post, but one of my resolutions for 2025 (and the rest of this year) is to read much more fiction and less nonfiction

Bring across my thread of books I've read this year from X - will continue with subsequent reads after this post:
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that's better

wake up to see manchester united are struggling once again...pain.

😩 that's good to know

Speedometer. - Private (2000) YouTube video by icosagonline

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCg...

enjoyed the first game but i really hope this one's just a *bit* easier to get into than the first

it just occurred to me that path of exile 2 releases the day I finish up work for the year

I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”

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everyone on the decentralized social media platform is mad that the contents of the decentralized social media platform were easily accessible for all to use, not locked down and controlled by a single organization, created by a team with an explicitly stated goal of decentralized development?

Announcing Pace Layers The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.

longnow.org/ideas/pace-l... Can't wait to get my hands on this

Why are governments so bad at problem solving? Politicians everywhere seem doomed to repeat their mistakes. There is another way

www.ft.com/content/0a39...

Is there a path to responsible disruption? I hope it's not too late for the kind of clearing of the brush that controlled burns bring.

www.eatingpolicy.com/p/is-there-a...

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think you just have to wait it out and it fixes itself

Highly recommend the Polycrisis newsletter if you're interested in the intersection of finance, climate and political economy

i've come around to this view of late, even more so as I see what the Albanese government's trying to do with social media regulation