Category: Reading List

• ‘The new American dream: getting paid to do nothing?’ by Emma Rindlisbacher for The Verge
• ‘Five former SpaceX employees speak out about harassment at the company’ by Loren Grush for The Verge
• ‘A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution’ by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
• ‘USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables’ by Glenn Fleishman for TidBits
• Vicious by V. E. Schwab

• ‘How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion’ by Louise Matsakis, Meaghan Tobin and Wency Chen for Rest of World
• ‘Twitter Is The Worst Reader’ by Fonda Lee
• ‘Tired of Netflix’ by Andre Garzia
• ‘Black Sun’ by Rebecca Roanhorse

It’s Halo Infinite review season!

• ”Halo Infinite’ Is a Fun Sandbox Stuck Inside a Very Old Video Game’ by Cameron Kunzelman for Waypoint
• ‘Review: Halo Infinite’s campaign finishes the fight—but arrives in tatters’ by Sam Machkovech for Ars Technica
• ‘Halo Infinite review: grappling hooks and jeep joyrides make up for a shaky sci-fi plot’ by Brendan Caldwell for Rock Paper Shotgun
• ‘Halo Infinite saves the series by finally doing something different’ by Nicole Carpenter for Polygon

And the rest of the non-Halo stuff I read this week:

• ‘China’s queer internet is being erased’ by Lavender Au and Weiqi Liu for Rest of World
• ‘How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation’ by Karen Hao for MIT Technology Review
• ‘Notable Sandwiches #7: Bánh Mì’ by Talia Bracha Lavin
• ‘The Complete History of the Kings and Queens of New York Rap’ by Paul Thompson for The Ringer

• ‘The 1619 Project’ by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine
• ‘Don’t Let Them See You Cry’ by Riley Black for The Sierra Club Magazine
• ‘On sideloading’ by Riccardo Mori
• ‘Apple’s frontline employees are struggling to survive’ by Zoe Schiffer for The Verge

• ‘Before the next big thing, Apple has a lot of little things that need fixing’ by Dan Moren for Macworld
• ‘Meta goes into lockdown’ by Alex Heath for The Verge
• ‘The future of Brazilian gaming: shopping’ by Leo Schwartz for Rest of World
• ‘Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare’ by Peter Guest for Rest of World
• City Hall Watcher #150 – Watching the dollars