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What I've been reading online recently. I wish so many of these weren't on the godawful Substack. :/

‘I was ready to fight’: Woman describes end of OHL sexual assault investigation This fucking country, that fucking sport.

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
This piece is behind a paywall, which feels Meaningful, frankly.

The Strunk and White Takedown: Why America’s Favorite Style Guide Doesn’t Teach Good Style

But what’s really wrong with Strunk and White is that under the guise of teaching good style, it’s advocating one style. A writer needs to know how to vary their style according to the rhetorical occasion.

Something that especially gets me is when S&W is recommended for fiction writing.

The problem with Peter Frankopan’s theory of history The Earth Transformed seeks to tell the story of climate change without confronting global capitalism.

Experting While Female This is by a TTRPG designer, so it is specifically about that space, but it's also a fantastic piece on ambient, inescapable sexism.

Many people have a real problem with woman-as-expert/authority. If you don’t, then I’m not talking about you. But there are enough people like this that I have examples of players challenging my authority as a GM at conventions and at home, including on a game I made.

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants We have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue.

Mysterious Shapes Hidden Beneath the Amazon Canopy Reveal a Sprawling Ancient Civilization Much Bigger Than Researchers Expected: Scientists recently discovered hundreds of monumental, geometric earthworks known as “geoglyphs” in northern Brazil from the Aquiry civilization.

The findings, detailed in a new paper published July 29 in the journal Nature, add to a growing body of evidence showing that the Amazon is not an untouched wilderness but, rather, a landscape that has been shaped by humans for centuries.

The Most Dangerous Diagnosis in a Heat Wave: People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

Trauma creep: From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed. Last week, I saw a knitter claim that she was traumatized by buying a pattern that turned out to be more difficult than expected. For some reason, I commented asking her not to diminish the very real hell of living with trauma; her response was that I shouldn't be "gatekeeping" her emotions and she had a right to her feelings.

You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania: The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.

As the American right in 2026 continues to be so wholly enveloped by the absurdities of Trumpism, some centrists are increasingly desperate for conservatives who appear “reasonable.” Only by pointing to such phantom right-wing figures can they rationalize their own conservative mode of politics and their distaste for the left (or morally justify their fecklessness in the face of rising fascism.) [...] It feels essential now to remind people of who Hanania really is and why it’s dangerous to treat him as some voice of reason. Normalizing and sane-washing figures like him, or allowing them to position themselves as somehow “moderate” or in the “center,” amounts to a complete surrender of the Overton Window to fascism. Hanania deserves our scorn—but so, too, does a media establishment that continues to elevate him.

Everything Good About Jason Arday We are tired of the single reductionist narrative about the kindest person we knew. So we're gathering everything good about Jason Arday, in the words of the people who were there.

speculations: on the Arday Affair, K'eguro Macharia. How should the Black Academic—BlackAdemic—write about the Arday Affair? (Written after Arday's resignation but before his death.)

Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror, Karen Attiah. What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

Snowflake Critics: why do we have to always be better than they are, Kyla Wazana Tompkins.

People have been warning me not to provoke fights with the right and their literary and institutional sycophants lately but I think something in me just cracked with Jason Arday’s death.

I want to hide and to be seen Stewart Hotston. Because they enjoy the taste of blood in their mouths when that taste feels righteous.

Who Killed Jason Arday?, PT Zeleza. Jason Arday’s death was the result of a convergence of forces that reveal the fragility of the racial settlement in post-imperial and postcolonial Britain and the contradictions of its elite institutions. He was eagerly elevated as a symbol, ruthlessly scrutinized as an anomaly, and callously discarded as a liability. His rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change. Arday was killed by white liberal proponents of performative inclusion who propelled him, shrouding him with the aura of heroic exceptionalism.