Made it some way through. Some really excellent ideas, certain strains that I feel come via second-wave thinkers like Dworkin that I feel less certain about. Definitely a must-read for fellas.
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Daniel stopped reading The Will to Change by bell hooks
Daniel finished reading The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore
Daniel finished reading The Great When by Alan Moore
Daniel wants to read Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
Daniel wants to read Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Daniel started reading The Great When by Alan Moore
Daniel started reading The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore
Daniel finished reading Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks

Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks
Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture …
Daniel finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Daniel reviewed A manual for cleaning women by Lucia Berlin
Stayed with me
4 stars
Years later, images from these stories have stayed with me: a terrified girl helping her grandfather pull out all his teeth, ER doctors and their kind voices, the little injured jockey who speaks no English, bad smells that smell good.
Daniel reviewed Nineteen Seventy-seven by David Peace
David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's …
The men are upset the women are suffering
2 stars
A lukewarm James Ellroy imitation wherein we spend 300 pages with two deeply unpleasant men as they supposedly try to solve murders and assaults but instead commit their own litany of shitty acts. And then they have the audacity to be upset that other men are doing nasty things to these same women.
Was a fan of the miniseries but honestly maybe I ought not to have been.
Daniel reviewed Valuable Humans in Transit by qntm
Rereading some of the stories
Content warning Short story summaries
Lena
Accidentally becoming an AWS vm image.
If you are reading this
What if a civilisation sent us a message and we mostly missed it?
The frame by frame
When corporate espionage meets self-driving cars.
The Difference
I’d fail the Turing test
gorge
Whoops we woke up the hungry nanofungus planet
cripes does anyone remember
Classic creepy pasta idea based on the Google graveyard of social medias
Driver
Sequel to Lena, about the need to manage all these worker brains.
I don’t know, Timmy
That creepy moment you realise you aren’t the simulating universe but the simulated.
A powerful culture
They built a pipeline through our planet. Humans, eh?
Valuable humans in transit
In which the grey hoo actually, maybe, saves most of humanity.