February 2026

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February 2026

February recap so, so very late. Blame the exhaustion.

Read: 

Shorts:

• A Velvet Chair Anywhere but Home by Brianna Alers
• The Shape of You by Dana Wall
• The Heretic • by Jeff Gard

 

Non-fiction

• So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls by Marina Hyde
• The Dragon Caught in the Poem by Mari Ness
• Carbon Dysphoria by Iris Meredith
• Starlink Is Dropping From the Sky Again and Again. Scientists Warn Earth Is Already Feeling the Effects by Evelyn Hart
• Craft on the Production Line by Kristie De Garis
• How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt by Margaret Storey
• The Cuddled Little Vice(Sandman) by Elizabeth Sandifer
• Rupert Lowe’s challenge is real: Do we want a politics of care, or of hate? by Richard Murphy
• The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts by Ketan Joshi
• Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation by Claudio Nastruzz