Featured Nonfiction
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Coming September 28 — Pre-order the eBook now.
Siding 29: How We Enclosed the Record of Human Life—and How We Can Build Differently
I wrote Siding 29 because I think we have spent too much time arguing about who may use our data, and how they may use it, without first asking why so much of that record exists at all. It is a book about how ordinary life became data infrastructure, and whether we can still choose to build differently.
Open-Licence Resources
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FREE Open-License Resource
The Data Center Anarchists' Handbook - A Public Interest Guide to Data Center Development
The Data Center Anarchists’ Handbook is a public-interest guide for communities facing data center proposals. It does not argue that data centers should not exist; it asks what governments, residents, journalists, farmers, Indigenous governments, and public officials should know before land, water, electricity, tax benefits, infrastructure, and public trust are committed.
Built around questions rather than answers, the handbook helps readers examine facility type, ownership, water use, power demand, public subsidies, noise, environmental impacts, data sovereignty, AI, emergency planning, monitoring, enforcement, and long-term community costs. -
FREE Open-License Resource
Before The Data Centre Decision:A Public-Interest Briefing Package for Municipal Representatives, Legislators and Communities
Before the Data Centre Decision is a free, practical briefing package for municipal representatives, legislators, public administrators and communities facing a proposed data-centre development. It provides detailed questions to ask, common non-answers to watch for, required follow-ups, documents to request, a project-readiness checklist, model policy resources and a review tracker. Its purpose is not to argue for or against a project, but to help ensure major decisions are made using a complete public-interest record—not only the information and framing supplied by the developer.