As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company

😂😂😂 yeah, we're still not serious about surviving as a species on this planet.

I finished The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg and enjoyed it. It's actually remarkable that we as a species can tell such a specific story about the beginning of the universe using science.

I'm currently reading A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker: 1925-2025 by Deborah Treisman, which is an 1100-page long short story collection. So far, I enjoyed "The Weeds" by Mary McCarthy, and "Symbols and Signs" by Vladimir Nabokov.

I started reading If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins. Given what's happening around the world in Indonesia, Nepal and others, it feels like we're in the sequel to the Arab Spring and I want to "catch up on the prequel" so to speak.

I finished two short novels and I did not like both: Everyday Is For The Thief by Teju Cole and You Dreamed Of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue.

So it's back to non-fiction and my next book will be Empire of A.I. by Karen Hao.

I finished James by Percival Everett and I really enjoyed his sense of humor and use of irony, and I found it to be a fast-paced read.

Up next will be The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg, which was recommended by Neil DeGrasse Tyson on his StarTalk podcast.

I thought his writing was very accessible. In the first few chapters, he lays out the story of the first three minutes after the Big Bang in a very understandable way, and the rest of the book talks about how modern science figured it out (which is probably a more interesting story). Equations and more technical explanations are pushed to the appendix.

Developer Voices with Kris Jenkins. Great in-depth conversation with developers about a new and interesting project they're working on.

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. It was on my TBR list for a while, and this current season of college protests against the war in Gaza makes it the perfect time to read it.

I've been in the mother of all reading slumps (since I hit my very modest yearly goal of 12+ books), but I'm back and I'm currently reading Orientalism by Edward Said for non-fiction. I'm also reading two short-story collections: A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker edited by Deborah Treisman, and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Thomas, Ekpeki and Knight.

this will be my next fiction read, but I don't know if I'll enjoy it because I never read Huck Finn.

I really liked Broken Earth too, and I have Becky Chambers on the TBR.

You could try sci-fi magazines or short-story collections (like The New Yorker's Century Of Fiction which is over 1000 pages!) to find new authors you like and check out their work. Or you could double-down on Jemisin's other books.

Trust by Hernan Diaz. I got it because I heard it has an interesting structure and it won the Pulitzer, and I'm really loving it so far. I just finished (after a little reading slump) Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology by David Golumbia.

I think I've been a bit unfair to Coates in the past because I've felt like, outside of "The Case for Reparations" his writing reads like "James Baldwin-light". But I think he listens to criticism and I want to go back and finish Eight Years (I DNF'd it after re-reading the Reparations chapter) and read his new book The Message.

I just finished Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. Next up is Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology by David Golumbia.

I finished Trust by Hernan Diaz, which I absolutely loved (the quickest I've ever read a novel according to my StoryGraph). Hernan Diaz might be my new favorite author, and I added his first novel, In The Distance, to my TBR.

I'm currently reading Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

still on Empire of AI by Karen Hao. these tech bros are insufferable🙄

I'm a fan of Void Linux, and it's always cool to see River represented out here. Nice!

I have an old Bitbucket that still works, but I've migrated to Codeberg. I'm also running a self-hosted Forgejo for personal stuff.

FWIW I've been able to compile Zed for Wayland only by removing any X11 references in the code and I've been using it for about two months or so.