June / July / August 2026 Reading
Books
- Amulet, Roberto Bolaño (1999)
- The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño (1998)
- The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson (1982)
- Death's End, Cixin Liu (2010)
- Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner (2011)
- The Third Reich, Roberto Bolaño (2010)
- Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, Gavin Newsom (2026)
- The Gods of New York, Jonathan Mahler (2025)
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufekci (2017)
- Your Name Here, Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff (2008)
Papers
Blogs / Essays
- What Silicon Valley Can Learn from the Eastern Establishment, Geoffrey Kabaservice
- Baumol's Sawdust, Oliver Klingefjord
- A Brief History of Lab Notebooks, Ulkar Aghayeva
- Betting on Humans, Anton Leicht
- When AI Starts Writing Systems Code, Core Automation
- Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment, BAIR Blog
- Contra Chiang on Machine Consciousness, Henry Shevlin
- Constructive Self-Supervised Learning (Part 1), James Chen
- Alignment & Succession: The Ideology of Successionism, Rudolf Laine
- Alignment & Succession: The Two Bars of Alignment, Rudolf Laine
- The New Right as Intellectual Movement, The Point
- The New Right as Culture, The Point
- Last Boys at the Beginning of History, Mana Afsari
- Rewriting Bun in Rust, Jarred Sumner
- Anxieties of Experience and Contemporary Literature, Jeffrey Lawrence
- A Stargate for Data, Will Depue
- The Inhumanities, Maia Mindel
- It's 2030 and we fucked up. How did it happen?, Boaz Barak
- Toward Environmental Liberalism, Andy Masley
- The Future Worth Building Is Human, Thinking Machines Lab
- The Three AI Pills, Zvi Mowshowitz
- Locked Down, Anton Leicht
- Value Drift in Institutions, Joe Edelman
- From a Math Student in 2026, Torgeir Lysen
- Rage Against the Machine, Maia Mindel