May 2024

May 2025

Read:

Shorts:

• Across the River, My Heart, My Memory by Ann LeBlanc
• Zeitgeber by Greg Egan
• Making Us Monsters by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly
• And Now the Shade by Rich Larson
• The 4:10 to Tarick by Alex Atkins

Non-fiction

• Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI by Soatok
• ‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s? by Amelia Gentleman
• Beorn and Bombadil @ ThoughtsOnTolkien
• The value of institutional memory by Tim Harford
• The Price of Remission by David Armstrong
• Garmin Pay: yes, you can do NFC tap-to-pay in stores without big tech by Thom Holwerda
• GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People @ https://fireborn.mataroa.blog

Visited:

• Wimpole Hall (grounds)

Attended:

• Henry Normal and Brian Bilston @ The Corn Exchange
• Burnaby Recital @ Emmanuel College
• The Waterboys @ The Corn Exchange
• Peggy Seeger (online)

ETA: Spotted:

• Little egret (on Ditton Meadows)

ETA:

• No current death watch beetle found. Evidence of past dwb and historic woodworm, but the noises we heard must've been "some other boring beelte".