by Tom Weber
AI, or rather what US tech companies are marketing as AI, is a revealing case study in the playbook Silicon Valley uses to screw us over, time and again. As US power wanes across nearly every dimension, the rest of the world may wonder: what might a post-US internet look like?
Sneak a peek into my latest book, available everywhere from 11 December 2025.
On World Mental Health Day, many will tell you how to fix yourself. In actuality, we should focus on fixing the system that is making us sick.
What comes to mind when you think about Native Americans? If you're currently thinking about cliché-riddled men in feathers dancing around a campfire or silently standing behind problematic white Hollywood actors, you might want to consider picking up a copy of this book.
I'll admit, I'm a rather emotional person. But if a book is so impactful in its storytelling that I repeatedly have to put it down just to regain my composure, then that is quite remarkable-even for my standards.
This is an English translation of an article I wrote for Konterbont magazine in Luxembourgish about my autism diagnosis and how it changed my life.
Some of you may remember that I recently reviewed another book by Karagatsis, "The Great Chimera."
"The Extinction of Irena Rey" is a well-crafted, witty book filled with fascinating titbits and one of my favourite novels of 2024.
This book is nearly 400 pages long and I finished it in just under 2 weeks. I’m not a fast reader at all, so this should already give you a fairly good idea of how enthralled I was by its story.
The first thing that stood out to me about "Love at Six Thousand Degrees" by Japanese author Maki Kashimada was that there are no breaks in the story.
just thoughts 