now reading 2.0

[Noyka]

Damn and here I thought I was a cynic.

[Verbal]

whats a cynic

[jawn galliano]

i would call it a pessimistic view more than cynical. i am unfortunately quite confident in the overall assessment, however.

[Verbal]

[Paste Human]

Soon to be reading "Running the Light" by Sam Tallent. Just waiting for it to arrive. I've heard really good things about it, and recently found out that he's a fine comic.

https://www.samtallent.com/book/signed- ... -the-light

[-M-]

A People's History of Poland by Adam Leszczyński

[User]

good?

[-M-]

good?

very good

[jawn galliano]

started aberration in the heartland of the real by wendy painting, which began as a phd dissertation about timothy mcveigh and turned into a sprawling investigatory tome. the publisher traffics in a lot of crank shit, but this seems like a rare gem out of their collection. i am excited

[-M-]

"Testo Junkie. Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in The Pharmacopornographic Era" by Paul B. Preciado

[jawn galliano]

finished the road to 9/11 by peter dale scott last week, it made me dizzy. a nonstop barrage of names and places and incidents. probably the best centralized collection of info regarding the political and foreign policy history that preceded the attacks, reaching as far back as the 40s and the creation of the OPC. the most interesting stretch begins with carter's (at the behest of brzezinski) commencement of arming and funding the mujahideen to instigate the soviet invasion of afghanistan, which begins a thread that runs all the way through the clinton administration

as a fun bonus, you also discover the policy origins that birthed the 'FEMA camps!' currents within various conspiracy movements

[User]

sounds like a good read

[zim]

do y'all ever take notes as you read a book? i feel like my reading comprehension is shit these days

[happiness and harmony]

about 99% of the time

[zim]

dusty do you have any thoughts about AI generated articles/news/etc? the other day i started to wonder what will happen when ai is good enough to write college papers that will fool professors, how do we solve that problem. the tech might not be there right now but i believe it's only a matter of time

[happiness and harmony]

i think in-class essays are an underused tool

[zim]

i think in-class essays are an underused tool

i was thinking the same thing. i was also thinking that at some point in the future the first essay will always be handwritten and that will be used as a control to compare against electronically submitted work

[Mesarthim]

AI written essays will have to have a built in error margin, otherwise they won't be believable. I'm sure even people like dusto make the occasional mistake.

[zim]

AI written essays will have to have a built in error margin, otherwise they won't be believable. I'm sure even people like dusto make the occasional mistake.

oh for sure, the tech is already there. a lot of ai text generators have a "chaos" dial that lets you determine how much freedom you want to give the ai. i imagine there will be systems where you can feed them material you've produced and it will match it in a nearly identical way

[deckard]

[jawn galliano]

still need to finish that

[Ninny]

Some special people in this. The record is 45 games of simultaneous blindfold chess! Sometimes funny too. Now I'm playing some blindfold chess myself but it's really bad But a nice way to practice

[deckard]

i cant read

[jawn galliano]

been racking up scamazon cards from work so i purchased the devil's chessboard by david talbot. it is about the life and times of allen dulles

i am not yet reading it though

[jawn galliano]

got another one on deck about the CIA and charles manson which i think will be pretty interesting

finished this, really good. turns out the CIA did charles manson

next up: nato's secret armies: operation gladio and terrorism in western europe

[zim]

Just finished: At the Mountains of Madness

Up Next: The Man in the High Castle

phillip k dick has some cool stuff. i read do androids dream almost every year

[jawn galliano]

ok guys i finished devil's chessboard tonight, what do i finish next

nato's secret armies: operation gladio and terrorism in western europe
drug cartels do not exist: narco-trafficking and culture in the US and mexico
el golpe: US labor, the CIA and the coup at ford in mexico
the politics of heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade
american exception: empire and the deep state

you may notice a recurring theme in my interests these days

[User]

the politics of heroin for sure

also that is the only one of them i have read

[zim]

something something trainspotting

[jawn galliano]

the answer turned out to be none of those, taking a little break from things political

just finished promethea book one
and halfway through the complete from hell

alan moore

going to try to finish that over the next day, new mccarthy arrives on the morrow

[User]

i am rereading heart of darkness for the first time in at least a decade