May 2026 Monthly Dump

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