A way into Shakespeare through the weather forecast? A little look at almanacs, biography, and climate… open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Thank you, Richard!

Thank you Christopher! Link here: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I wrote about Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism for @theguardian.com —it’s a brilliant take on why we ought to focus on the hellish 21st century update on Fordism rather than the man himself.

i wrote an essay on moltbook and non-human performance art for @spikeart.bsky.social which i’d like you to read spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess... #moltbook #spikeartmagazine #iancheng

Here’s my take on Cory Doctorow’s #enshittification published by @versobooks.bsky.social for @review31.bsky.social (give them a follow)— it’s funny, depressing but ultimately it’s a useful resource for working out why so many platforms increasingly offer up awful UX. review31.co.uk/article/view...

wrote a short piece on @bruceholsinger.bsky.social 's very fun new novel, Culpability, for @thetls.bsky.social, which imagines a near-future where we still haven't worked out who is responsible for mistakes made by emerging forms of tech like AI: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... #BookReview

Check out my review of @andrewgallix.bsky.social 's novel Loren Ipsum in Literary Review | 'Beware the Baguette' 🥖 literaryreview.co.uk/beware-the-b...

'Some of what we did became a thing' | Review 31 - here are my thoughts on Joanna Walsh's Amateurs! which publishes today with @versobooks.bsky.social review31.co.uk/article/view...

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web. www.citationneeded.news/review-read-...

Tech bros *hate* RSS because it is a way for information to go directly between authors and audience without them being able to extract rents in between.