"Louder than Hell: the Definitive Oral History of Heavy Metal." Caught my eye at a used bookstore.

“ What Engineers Know and How they Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History” by Walter Vincenti.

Recommended strongly by a colleague. I am about to take it to the pub!

seby wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:58 pm “ What Engineers Know and How they Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History” by Walter Vincenti.

Recommended strongly by a colleague. I am about to take it to the pub!

Let me know if you've means to snag this in an e-format, as I'd be very interested.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:13 am

seby wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:58 pm “ What Engineers Know and How they Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History” by Walter Vincenti.

Recommended strongly by a colleague. I am about to take it to the pub!

Let me know if you've means to snag this in an e-format, as I'd be very interested.

Just checked libgen and no luck :,(

I forgot how funny Suttree was. I am almost finished with it after going through The Passenger and Stella Maris twice.

I’ve heard some people were kinda cold on the new Cormac but I love it and I think I’ll continue rereading his other books.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:26 am I forgot how funny Suttree was. I am almost finished with it after going through The Passenger and Stella Maris twice.

I’ve heard some people were kinda cold on the new Cormac but I love it and I think I’ll continue rereading his other books.

I haven't started on Stella Maris yet, but The Passenger felt a bit like a Suttree rehash. I still enjoyed it, though.

Krev wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:55 am

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:26 am I forgot how funny Suttree was. I am almost finished with it after going through The Passenger and Stella Maris twice.

I’ve heard some people were kinda cold on the new Cormac but I love it and I think I’ll continue rereading his other books.

I haven't started on Stella Maris yet, but The Passenger felt a bit like a Suttree rehash. I still enjoyed it, though.

I’ve always wanted CM to do something else in the Suttree vein, and we got it with The Passenger. I’m looking forward to reading both new books again.

I’ve been reading Seeds Of Empire by Andrew Torget. I never realized what an incompetent country Texas was as its own republic, especially during Lamar’s presidency. Things they don’t teach you in history class.

Capital, v1. Lessgobaby.

"Parapolitics, then, is the study of criminal sovereignty, of criminals behaving as sovereigns and sovereigns behaving as criminals in a systematic way. It was not just a topic but an analytical conclusion. On the one hand, it goes significantly beyond the proposition that relations between security and intelligence organizations, international criminal networks, and quasi-states are occasional and incidental, the work of "rogue elements" and the like. On the other hand, it falls significantly short of grand conspiracy theory: it does not suggest that the world of visible, "normal" politics is an illusion or that it is entirely subordinated to "deep" politics. Rather, it proposes that the tripartite relationship between security and intelligence organizations, international criminal networks, and quasi-states is systematic, extensive, and influential. The task of parapolitics as a discipline is to identify the dynamics of the relationship and to delimit precisely the influence that it has, or does not have, on public politics."

- Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty, Eric Wilson ed. (2009)


Sounds like exactly the thing needed to de/re-radicalize a conspiracy-buff. Exciting stuff.

Storm of the Eye, Georges Bataille.

One of the most erotic texts I've read. Started reading this on the tram and then like no this shit is too private lol.