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Opinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/

Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.

Next on my list to read, after I finish Tom Holt "In Your Dreams".

What are you reading? #reading

I've seen folks boost an interview about this book. I'm really excited to see it come out, and definitely adding it to my reading list.
https://www.akpress.org/to-catch-a-fascist.html

If you’re new around here, I maintain an “Intro to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” list, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/edit?tab=t.0
There’s also a mirror availabl…

Before we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…

Somehow I've got that problem that just reading a book feels like I'm neglecting "important" work. My task list is long and there is always some "productive" stuff I could do. I intellectually understand that reading is important and not just a recreational activity. Also I understand recreation is important. Still there is this nagging feeling when I pick up a book and read.
Do you have the same issue? How did or would you address it?

Enjoying the footnote speculation that LLMs recognise Neal Stephenson novels based on random paragraphs appended to spam to fool content classifiers.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.

brauche unbedingt für nächstes Jahr eine funktionierende triage für meine reading list

Having begun reading "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, I might add it to my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" doc.
📄 Reading list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8…

Time for video games instead of reading for a bit. I think my plan is:
- Chain of Echoes DLC
- Octopath Traveler
- Pioneers of Pagonia
- FF VI
- Fantasian
- DQ 3 hd-2d
that's a hilariously long list so we'll see.

Time publishes [Atmosphere: 100 Must-Read Books of 2025](https://time.com/collections/the-100-must-read-books-of-2025/7329475/atmosphere/).
I am not reading a book every 3.5 days.
Thus I am wondering how I could use this list.

added hn and lobsters to the dns deny list. Firefox "failed to load page" will be my reminder that even staring at the wall will be more useful than reading those 2 sites

Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
\(^-^)/

Oh. Its proprietary!?
#browser #firefox #vivaldi #mozilla