I read the short story Company Town by Aimee Ogden which I found in Clarkesworld magazine #189. And I wanted to recommend because it was pretty good.

Basically, it’s the story of a lesbian couple. One has some secret identity as a warrior that routinely goes to a fantasy world to fight (the story doesn’t follow her there so we aren’t given much details on what her deal is) and the other, the protagonist POV character, is a normal girl who works every day for the company that owns the town. I can’t say much more without spoiling, read it, it’s cool.

I finished reading Building The Commune: Radical Democracy In Venezuela and put it up on ProleWiki, so now I’m skimming over it again to get rid of OCR issues and such. It’s not specifically an ML analysis but I felt like it was a pretty good introduction to recent history (1980s-2016) of Venezuela with a focus on the communes and also some details on the 2014 opposition protests.

I started reading the biography of Esteban Montejo, who escaped slavery in Cuba in 1886, and later participated in the independence war. He was interviewed in the 1960s to make this biography, which is told from his perspective based on the interviews. I’m only partway through but it’s been an interesting book so far that covers a lot of different topics including his observations on society, different forms of spirituality, plant knowledge, life in the forest/mountains after escaping, and about people around him.

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Currently I got:

• Bhikkhu Bodhi - The buddha’s teaching as it is.
  • I’m getting back into Buddhism more, and this is probably the most comprehensive intro to therevada buddhism.
• Wendy S Painting - Aberration in the heartland of the real
  • About Timothy Mcveigh and the oklahoma city bombing. Suggested by a comrade on here a few days ago, its really entertaining so far. Don’t wanna ruin too much but essentially its similar to the JFK assassination. It was a failed sting operation, and a lot of people involved in the bombing were touts / fed informants, and the FBI sold a “lone wolf” story to the public to protect their informants and cover up their fuckup.
• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
  • Love me some gothic horror, and this is the best one of all time.

started reading a biography on lenin this week by Maria Prilezhayeva. it’s not the super serious read that i was hoping for, but it’s pretty fun nonetheless!

Mao’s On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship

Been reading Ha Joon Chang and Kathleen Tyson to punish myself. Do not do this, it is working a little too well. Good hater notes though.

Noob question here but how do I filter Internet Archive by language? Just realized I am wasting a fair bit of time stirring the secret sauce: https://archive.org/details/@redbookarchive

GODDAMMIT, DONUT!