Technofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism , Yanis Varoufakis I thought the title was just a hyperbole, but he's actually serious. And I think he might even convince me by the end of the book. I don't actually have any time to read these days but I have this stupid job that forces me to execute a prog...

I dreamed I was being blackmailed by the Mossad.

Shirley , by Charlotte Brontë So this is her only historical novel. She wrote it in the mid-19th Century but it's set in the year 1812, when the Luddite struggle was at its height. There are two events in the novel that seem closely based on real events involving a notorious mill owner. It's not ba...

Charlie Kirk Loses Gun Debate by a Long Shot

(posted somewhere online)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/p ... fense.html

Undoing decades of wholesome doublespeak.

The Age of Revolution (1789-1848), Hobsbawm

My novel hasn't arrived so I figured I'd read this in the meantime. I only ever read the last book in this tetralogy on the long 19th Century and the short 20th Century. I forgot how much I liked Hobsbawm.

Have you read The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson? IIRC it has a rather lengthy section on the Luddites, and more generally is one of those "required reading" books on early-industrial-era British class politics, at least according to all my college professors 20 years ago. E.P...

Frankenstein , by Mary Shelley Couldn't put it down although it does get a bit repetitive and predictable. This is one of the books I was led to read after Blood in the Machine , in a Marxist key, with the monster being the industrial working class that's revolting around the time this is written. ...

The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Everyman's Library) So, after reading the shorter Vintage Classics edition, I was left wanting more Bradbury and this larger collection arrived today. It's really beautiful and carefully edited. It includes a three-column chronology with one column detailing the events ...

Blood in the Machine, Brian Merchant

It's about the Luddites and the backlash against Big Tech today. It's pretty good, haven't gotten too far yet.