February 2024

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February 2024

Read:  

Shorts:

•  CROSSWORDS by ETHAN J. STONE (https://everydayfiction.com/crosswords-by-ethan-j-stone/)
• EXCISION by MICHAEL GARDNER (https://everydayfiction.com/excision-by-michael-gardner/)
• RE: Thesis defense issue by kalirush (https://archiveofourown.org/works/28299630)
• GHOST WALKERS by CATHERINE GRIFFIN (https://everydayfiction.com/ghost-walkers-by-catherine-griffin/)
• Guidelines for First Contact in Simplified Technical English by JETSE DE VRIES (https://jetse.substack.com/p/guidelines-for-first-contact-in-simplified)
• The Pandemonium Waltz by JEFFREY FORD (https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-pandemonium-waltz/)
• Howard and the Golem by Lisa Goldstein (https://interzone.digital/howard-and-the-golem/)
• Windwalkers by K. Thompson (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/108931782/posts/5131944457)

 

Non-fiction:

•  Mapped: The deadly geography of Mount Everest by Frank Jacobs (https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/everest-deaths/)
• The Tyranny of the Marginal User by IVAN VENDROV (https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user)
• Palimpsestual Profanity by Michael Admas (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/26929184/posts/5113664839)
• ‘God forbid that a dog should die’: when Goodreads reviews go bad by Lauren Oyler (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/17/god-forbid-that-a-dog-should-die-when-goodreads-reviews-go-bad)
• Take My Life, Please: The Media's Will They/Won't They Love Affair with American Fascism Prepares For Its Terrible Wedding Night by Catherynne M. Valente (https://www.patreon.com/posts/98670371)
• Fake: It’s only a matter of time until disinformation leads to calamity by Tim Harford (https://timharford.com/2024/02/fake-its-only-a-matter-of-time-until-disinformation-leads-to-calamity/)
• I Stopped Using Passwords. It’s Great—and a Total Mess by Matt Burgess (https://www.wired.com/story/stopped-using-passwords-passkeys/)
• “The Roaring Twenties” Rudy & John Walker on LLM and the New AI by Rudy Rucker (https://medium.com/@rudyrucker/the-roaring-twenties-rudy-john-walker-on-llm-and-the-new-ai-cd309703c1cf)
• ‘This might be the last thing I ever write’: Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure by Nicholas Wroe (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/18/paul-auster-on-cancer-connection-and-the-fallacy-of-closure)
• Folklore in Penelope Lively’s The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Francis Young (https://drfrancisyoung.com/2023/11/24/folklore-in-penelope-livelys-the-wild-hunt-of-hagworthy/)
• Wilson’s Iliad and Le Guin’s Battle Between Good and Evil, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sword BY KRISTEN PATTERSON (https://reactormag.com/wilsons-iliad-and-le-guins-battle-between-good-and-evil-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-sword/)

 

Attended:

•  Vanya (NTLive) with Andrew Scott
• Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh @ The Fulbourn Centre
• Endangered Alphabets Bookclub