Books & Papers
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Books:
Most of my reading is on my Amazon Kindle and I was forever opening and closing books in the web interface in order to present organized sets. When Musk took over Twitter and everyone scampered for the Fediverse, I acquired a BookWyrm login and I’ve never looked back. Here are the shelves in my account:
Tradecraft - actual stuff you’d need for current conflicts.
MAGA World - important reading on the conditions in Trump world.
Technology - O’Reilly & Packt FOSS books.
Cyberpunk - my favorite fiction genre.
SciFi & Fantasy - things I read mostly when I was younger.
Past & Future - History and futurism outside MAGA World bounds.
Classics - books regarded as classics.
Graphic - Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles.
Spirit - spiritual reading.
There are a couple must-read books if you’re here because you’re worried about the future. How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter shows how we’re staggering towards inevitable conflict. The Insurgent’s Dilemma by David H. Ucko dispels our historic notion of what civil war means and lays out possible scenarios for 21st century America.
Papers:
Years ago we had a chat room called Hacker Cultural Attache Training, which accumulated two dozen PDFs. This is what’s in the README.txt for the folder.
#Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky & Co. do amazing work on conspiracy theories.
RecursiveFury.pdf
BeyondMisinformation.pdf
Debunking.pdf
# Conspiracy theorists mindset, reporting, and hate speech recognition.
LanguageOfConspiracy.pdf
CoveringConspiracyTheories.pdf
EightHateSpeechTropes.pdf
# influential thinkers.
Giesea-MimeticWarfare.pdf
# new thinking on how agents should be recruited.
MICE-to-RASCLS-agent-recruiting.pdf
# Leak of GRU (Russia's CIA) psyops material
AquariumLeaks-EN-Web-1.pdf
Quarterly Reading:
This site used to feature a quarterly focus with reading folder on Dropbox. Here are the articles for what happened the first year of operation. Things got a bit ragged after the 2024 election, and neither Q4 2024 nor Q1 2025 had anything like this.
Required Reading: The Online Operations Kill Chain Q4 2023
Pondering MITRE PANOPTICâ„¢ Q1 2024
Malign Influence Operations Safari Q2 2024
Snivel War Q3 2024