Ahead of Pocket shutting down this month, I did an export of my saves. (As should you.) It occurs to me that some of you might find these interesting, so here they are. The list is heavy stuff, I won’t kid you on that, but I don’t ply my trade in sunshine and rainbows.
As for a replacement for Pocket, which I really didn’t use that much in the first place, here’s my “read later” workflow. This won’t work for most people, but it works for me:
- If the “read later” is just a news article or something short and sweet, it stays in a tab.
- If the “read later” is a longread or something which needs deep attention, I use the Send to Kindle browser extension.
- If the “read later” is a PDF, I use the Send to Kindle bookmarklet.
- If the “read later” is an academic article, their formatting rarely plays nice with the Send to Kindle browser extension, so most of the time I have to upload them as PDFs by the bookmarklet, which requires temporarily changing the reading orientation on Kindle to landscape. Fiddly, but it works.
- Regardless of how those “read laters” get to my Kindle, I find a quiet place to sit and give them the focused attention they deserve.
Like I said, it works for me. Give it a try.
Anyway, here’s what was in my Pocket.
- The Risks of Internet Regulation
- Montana’s TikTok Ban: Breaking the Internet and Undermining Online Privacy
- Goldfish Memories by He Jiyan
- The Left’s Fragile Foundations – The American Prospect
- Regulating platform risk and design: ChatGPT says the quiet part out loud
- A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start
- The Weaponization of Things: Israel’s Techno-Violence, A Litmus Test for Technologists
- “Privacy by Design” Lessons for “Security by Design”
- Why is America “Trumpomuskovia”? – by Timothy Snyder
- Kash Patel Is the Hero QAnon Has Been Waiting For
- DOGE Is Hacking America
- Soldiers told to use Signal instead of WhatsApp for security
- The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown
- ‘Testing ground for Project 2025’: behind Oklahoma’s rightwing push to erode the line between church and state
- The Rise of the Brutal American
- ‘What the Hell Is Happening to Your Country?’
- Verizon and Its Cloud Vendor Must Face Lawsuit for Reporting CSAM that wasn’t – Lawshe v. Verizon
- Apple vs Home Office encryption court battle must be held in public, say MPs
- Musk’s Madisonian Insight
- Elon Musk’s Soap Operas for Conspiracy Buffs
- The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine
- The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War
- God Complex | Vanity Fair | APRIL 2025
- Elon Musk’s Cruel Moral Sentiments – Public Seminar
- How to Spot and Stop a Sociopath
- So You Want to Be a Dissident?
- A Televangelist in the White House
- The Real Lesson of Signalgate | Foreign Affairs
- The insidious doublespeak of Trump’s freedom of ‘choice’
- A Life in the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom
- DOGE and Disability Rights: Three Key Tech Policy Concerns
- Who Counts as Christian?
I am entertained that I have just added your Pocket list to my list of things to read later. But obscurely disappointed that it does not, itself, contain an item which is somebodies list of things to read later, which should ideally include an entry for your list.
Thinking about things like this distracts me from the end of the world.
Plenty of reading lists are available by clicking on the category link in this post’s header, for all your dystopian enjoyment