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Two reflections on Dickens's Little Dorrit, by Leslie Wilson
I'm listening to Little Dorrit as an audiobook at the moment, which will see me through quite a lot of cooking and baking. This is not a com...

The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
A Special Edition of The Ruffian

Being Black: Selections from "Soledad Brother" by Georg…
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simon…
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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…

Bruce Sterling – Medium
Read writing from Bruce Sterling on Medium. one of the better-known Bruce Sterlings

Roland-Allen.com
Home of the author of THE NOTEBOOK: A HISTORY OF THINKING ON PAPER, available now

Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition by Cedric J Robinson | East Bay Booksellers
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate.
Cory Doctorow: Rules for Writers
In 1991, I read two documents from Bruce Sterling that changed the course of my professional and literary career. The first was “The Turkey City Lexicon”, which Sterling co-wrote with L…

Martin Eden by Jack London
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.


Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’

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Who is rich in America, and why?
paulgp.substack.comCognitive Architectures for Language Agents
Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

Warnings for pattern matching
Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: A Survey with Focus on Repository-Level Approaches
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
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