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Kyle Nazario

Just finished one of the creepiest, most disturbing books I've ever read - And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin.

TLDR what if social media broke our brains so badly the real zombie outbreak was people *believing* there was a zombie outbreak.

Best QAnon book that's not directly about QAnon

A quote from the book. “It had already started. The world was tipping, its weight shifting, and no one had noticed how precarious the ground beneath our feet had become. Every image, every video feed, everything we heard and read seemed to have two sides. Each piece of evidence divided us, and with each line drawn, a wider slice of reality was thrown into question. The truth became slippery, as though the information itself had become a carrier. With each broadcast, the gleam in one person’s eye found a home in a multitude of others. And with enough confusion, enough doubt, well . . . that’s when the believers started to take charge.”
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Kyle Nazario

Gonna make a thread with the rest of what I've been reading.

Also highly recommend “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber" by Mike Isaac. It’s the best account of Uber's crazy years you can get short of working there. Many, many lessons about how and how not to run a tech business. 😅

An excerpt that says, “(Travis Kalanick) went on to advise his staff not to throw large kegs off of tall buildings, and mandate no interoffice sex unless co-workers explicitly stated “YES! I will have sex with you” to one another. He also noted that any puking on hotel grounds would result in a $200 fine. The email set the tone for the rest of the retreat.”
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Kyle Nazario

“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin - super sweet, heartfelt story about best friends who make video games together.

Really captures the all-consuming joy of really *making* something

An excerpt saying: “Promise me, we won't ever do this again,” Sadie said. "Promise me, that no matter what happens, no matter what dumb thing we supposedly perpetrate on each other, we won't ever go six years without talking to each other. Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.
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Kyle Nazario

“Death's End" by Liu Cixin - the last “Three-Body" book is the weakest, but it's still chock full of cool ideas and memorable setpieces. It'll make a great Netflix show.

Dr. He promised to give him some materials to help Tianming find the star in different seasons. “You are lucky, as lucky as the girl who received your gift,” said Dr. He. “I don’t think I’d call myself fortunate. I’m about to die.” Dr. He seemed unsurprised by this revelation. He lit a cigarette and smoked it in silence. After a while, he said, “Even so, I think you’re blessed. Most people don’t cast a glance at the universe beyond the world we live in until the day they die.” Tianming looked at Dr. He for a moment, then he looked back into the sky and found DX3906 easily. The smoke from Dr. He’s cigarette drifted before his eyes, and the faint star flickered through the veil. By the time she sees it, I’ll be gone from this world. Of course, the star he saw and the star she would see were only an image from 286 years ago. The faint beam of light had to cross three centuries to meet their retinas. Another 286 years would have to pass before the light from the star at this moment would reach the Earth. By then, Cheng Xin would long have turned to dust. What will her life be like? Maybe she’ll remember that in the sea of stars, there’s one that belongs to her.
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Kyle Nazario

“Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann - The true story of a murderous and terrifying conspiracy against the Osage tribe in the 1920s. Good prep for the movie this October.

Except from the book. I assumed that she had invited me to the museum in order to show me the letter, but I soon discovered that she had another reason. "I thought this might be a good time to tell you that story I mentioned before, about my grand-father," she said. She explained that after her grandfather divorced her grandmother, he wed a white woman, and in 1931 he began to suspect that he was being poisoned - by his second wife. When relatives visited her grandfather's home, Red Corn recalled, he was scared. He would tell them, "Don't eat or drink anything in this house." Not long after, Red Corn's grandfather dropped dead; he was forty-six years old. "Up until then
he'd been in good health," Red Corn said. "There was nothing wrong with him. His wife made off with a lot of the money." The family was convinced that he had been poisoned, but there was never an investigation: "Back then, everyone covered these things up. The undertakers. The doctors. The police." Red Corn did not know more than these fragmentary details relayed to her by relatives, and she hoped that I could investigate her grandfather's death. After a long pause, she said, "There were a lot more murders during the Reign of Terror than people know about. A lot more."
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Kyle Nazario

"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman - A funny and scary adventure story that will never let you look at the London Underground the same way

There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.
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Kyle Nazario

“Close to the Machine” by Ellen Ullman - A lovely, poetic memoir perfectly capturing what it is like to be a software engineer

(please excuse the large orange cat who insisted on obstructing my shot)

Soon the programmer has no choice but to retreat into some private interior space, closer to the machine, where things can be accomplished. The machine begins to seem friendlier than the analysts, the users, the managers. The real-world reflection of the program-who cares anymore? Guide an X-ray machine or target a missile; print a budget or a dossier; run a city subway or a disk-drive read/write arm: it all begins to blur. The system has crossed the membrane-the great filter of logic, instruction by instruction -where it has been cleansed of its linkages to actual human life.
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Kyle Nazario

“The Wager” by David Grann - A horrifying true story of a 1700s English warship that crashes by Chile. The crew descends into murder, mutiny and cannibalism.

Hilariously, at no point do they stop filling out paperwork

A map showing the path of the HMS Wager. It left England, rounded the tip of South America and crashed shortly after.
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Kyle Nazario

“Number Go Up” by Zeke Faux - A journalist who’s actually skeptical of and wrote about it. Honestly, my only complaint is he could have been more critical.

At a party for a project called Degenerate Trash Pandas, I asked one coder if crypto would ever be helpful for regular people. "Why is it that you think that is important?" he said to me, in a tone of total sincerity. "I really would like to know."
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Kyle Nazario

“There Are No Accidents” by Jessie Singer - a searing book that
comprehensively proves every “accident” is predictable and preventable. It will change how you see the world forever, and fill you with rage that things aren’t different.

Picture of an e-reader with a quote highlighted. “When I say that there are no accidents, I mean that everything we call an accident is predictable and preventable.”
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Kyle Nazario

“The Mormon People” by Matthew Bowman - a fascinating history of a religion I knew very little about before moving to Utah. And yes, the last chapter is about the play The Book of Mormon 😄

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MsDsays

@kn I read these last summer. I hadn’t heard Netflix was making them. When is it set to air?

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MsDsays

@kn wow! I’m in! Although the points hit in this trailer would not have been my elevator pitch for the series.

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Kyle Nazario

@MsDK12 Yeah I don’t know if other people will get excited about a shot of someone dramatically pushing a button (though we know that’s Ye Wenjie doing something Very Bad)

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MsDsays

@kn I totally would have sold the pitch of a video game as a recruitment tool for aliens and the mass psychosis of the sophrons as a way to undermine science. But this trailer looks enticing

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