Best specific group biographies according to redditors
We found 1,008 Reddit comments discussing the best specific group biographies. We ranked the 401 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 1,008 Reddit comments discussing the best specific group biographies. We ranked the 401 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
That's a true story, in case any of you are calling bullshit. In fact, there was a whole book based on it. I don't recommend it.
TIL white people were originally a small tribe of albino outcasts.
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It might be outdated. Time reporter Adam Pitluk published this one in 2007, and it makes a good case this guy is a genuine shithead who happened to be involved in one of the larger miscarriages of justice in recent history:
http://www.amazon.com/Damned-Eternity-Story-Caused-Flood/dp/0306815273
A lot of modern perceptions about the demise of Imperial Rome, the rise of Christianity, and the so-called "Dark Ages" were informed by 18th and 19th century scholarship, much of which was written with an anti-Catholic bias. That bias often led the authors of those histories to "spin" their historical accounts so as to place the maximal amount of blame on the Catholic church. Probably the single most famous example is that of Edward Gibbons' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which basically blamed Christianity for the fall of Rome and everything that followed it. That's almost certainly the source (even if only indirectly) for Sagan's account.
Since the 18th century, historians have done a great deal of work to reassess those arguments and revise our understanding of the period, but popular perceptions of the the mainlines of European history continue to lag behind. For the most part, the general public still subscribes to something like the Victorian view.
That view has been especially popular with public figures (like Sagan) concerned about the relationship between science, religion and society. Certain popularizers among them have essentially reiterated the mainlines of those Victorian biases, and their authority and popularity has won for those accounts something of a renaissance. The result is basically what you see here (and especially in /r/atheism, which likes to vote this ridiculous image to its front page every so often) -- people taking a very dubious oversimplification of history as indicative of the retrograde effect of religion on the scientific advance of culture.
There's a pretty good essay on the historical roots of that tradition in this collection, if you're interested. It's the one called "The Heirs of La Coterie Holbachique," although, now that I think on it, there's some pretty good material in "The Flattening of Historical Perspective," as well.
Concerning the Library of Alexandria and Hypatia specifically: There's plenty in Sagan's account to suggest that he's depending largely on legendary accounts of Hypatia. For example, it's true that by most accounts "she was a great beauty," but those accounts seem to have been embellished as an appeal to emotion. They've remade Hypatia into a kind of Greek ideal of wisdom, in order to make her murder seem tragic on a historical, rather than personal, level. There's no real evidence to suggest, as Sagan does, that she was killed "because she was a symbol of learning and science," nor because she was a pagan, of which Alexandria had multitudes. Based on the accounts I've read (this one, in particular), there's every reason to suppose that political and socio-economic motives factored more heavily into her murder. I gave a pretty basic break down of the argument for that interpretation here, if you're interested in more detail. In either case, it's overstating things quite a bit to suggest that Hypatia's death was part of a campaign to destroy the learning housed in the Library.
For one thing, the Library itself wasn't destroyed in Hypatia's era. Under an edict of Theodosius, an adjunct to the library, the Serapeum, was destroyed. As a student of the history of religion, I regard that as a major loss, but it probably didn't set science back at all. The reason is that the Serapeum was a temple dedicated to Serapis. It housed an offshoot of the Library's collection, but most serious scholars of antiquity (for example, Walter Burkert in his Ancient Mystery Cults, which see) maintain that the Serapeum housed liturgical texts, not philosophical and scientific texts. I wish those texts were still around so we'd have a better sense of what was involved in ancient religions, but it's going way beyond the realm of reasonable conjecture to liken their destruction to civilization having "undergone some self-inflicted brain surgery." It's unlikely that the plays of Sophocles were housed there, and even if there had been copies of Sophocles in the Serapeum, it's utter balderdash to suppose that there weren't hundreds of thousands of copies elsewhere in the world at the same time.
Portions of the Library at Alexandria were destroyed on four separate occasions. The final destruction of the library occurred in the 7th century, nearly three hundred years after the death of Hypatia. That it was destroyed at all was unfortunate, and it makes for exciting history to focus on those four highly politicized events, but the truth is that the destruction of the learning housed within the Library was a gradual process of dissolution.
The fact of the matter is that documents require constant upkeep and regular replacement to survive. That's why so few documents from antiquity have made it down to the modern era. The collection at Alexandria may have been finished off by one or another inferno, but those works are lost because they weren't better maintained. If they had been, then the destruction of a single library, no matter how well-stocked, wouldn't have mattered. The break down of the Roman Imperial system crippled the infrastructure needed to maintain wide literacy and preserve learning. For centuries after the Sack of Rome, most people were more worried about famine and Germanic invasion to invest much energy in preserving the literary heritage of the Greeks and Romans.
It's a romantic thought to suppose that saving a single library could have hurried along the scientific advance of Western civilization, but even if there had never been a single fire at Alexandria, the ravages of time and the costs of maintaining fragile artifacts would have ensured much the same end.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
Holy cow
https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Foul-First-Person-Account-Scandal/dp/061536263X
Get the PDF and flip to the page where he talks about the NBA rigged the 2002 WCF because they wanted it to go to game 7. Print that out and eat that.
> Vincent Bugliosi
According to Manson, His Life and Times (I think the best overall book on Manson), Bugliosi was so hated by his co-workers that when he ran for office in LA County they went to the press and offered to give them negative stories about him.
He also ended up spending several years in prison. Interestingly enough, it wasn't just because of the stolen rocks, but actually because of some notebooks that he was accused of taking as well (he claims the notebooks were not in the safe he stole).
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0385533926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318088847&sr=8-1
She's an asian woman.
I found her twitter from here
https://twitter.com/politicalkathy?lang=en
edit, aparently claire liu's a different person, they all look the same to be tbh 🤷
https://vid.me/claire_liu
https://claireliu1997.tumblr.com/
She's also written some books,
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
"A Stranger Beside Me" by Ann Rule.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Beside-Me-Ann-Rule/dp/1416559590
It's not the Art of Warmaidens, but I highly recommend Rejected Princesses. Lots of great stuff, bought an early copy for when my daughter is old enough to appreciate it.
I enjoyed Kingpin by Kevin Poulson it provided an excellent overview of the carder markets.
How do you interpret this quote?
" I read Betty Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] because I was very curious about it, and it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby. "
there are these weird strands of asians who hang in white nationalist servers who are literally the most insane of white supremacists lol
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https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
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This book was written by an Asian man pretending to be an Asian woman who is obsessed with neo-nazis.
I had this happen a couple of times to me in one year. I found out later that it likely originated with Target when they got hacked a few years ago and then the other was from a Wendy’s POS terminal when it came out that all of them in the area in which we lived were discovered to have malware installed which skimmed customer numbers.
I actually read a book about credit card hackers called Kingpin.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696
It’s a really interesting read and it makes you realize that basically, if you ever use your card, there is a chance it will get stolen at some point.
So your advice is definitely sound. Just check every month at least. I would also turn on transaction notifications. That’s how I caught what was happening both times. I set the limit to $5 so basically any transaction except for buying a candy bar or something alerts me. Good way to keep an eye on things.
I got my nieces a copy of Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics.
They loved how the book portrayed strong, independent women throughout history.
https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373
The Stranger Beside Me is a classic.
I think it would be good to include some examples of subtle N abuse and break them down into why and how it is abuse. Have professional therapists explain how even though these behaviors don't seem so bad on their own as isolated incidents, when they happen repeatedly over many years, they undermine the self-confidence/-esteem of the abused parties, teaching them to deal with the abusers in certain ways that are inappropriate for dealing with normal people, which in turn sets the abused parties up for future relationship problems because they tend to try to read and deal with people the way they have had to learn to read and deal with their Ns.
"The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade," by Ann Fessler, is one of the best documentary-type books I've ever read (she also made a movie based on it, but I haven't yet seen it); she interviewed over 100 women who had been forced to give up the babies that resulted from their unintended pregnancies and used many of their real quotes throughout the text, with supporting statistics and facts in between (it's worth a read, even if you aren't part of the adoption community). I think the approach and format she used in the book would translate well to the subject of living with an N and the damage it can do, despite seeming innocuous to those who've never dealt with such people. Perhaps some dramatic reenactments of real stories of specific incidents would also help to drive the points home to those who haven't lived it.
I would definitely love to see something like this, and opportunity to contribute to it would be awesome!
Edit: Another good thing to include would be how hard it is for the victim to recognize that s/he did, in fact, live an abusive childhood - especially if all the abuse is mental/emotional and seldom witnessed by anyone outside the family and the victim has always been told what an ingrate or horrible child s/he was when rebelling against the abuse, even in subtle ways. I suppose this would fall under the isolation aspect of being raised by Ns.
Seconded. Just remember, if your adversary is sophisticated enough, and they get their hands on your computer while it's running, they could potentially retrieve the TrueCrypt key from your memory--that's how the government busted Iceman.
His life has been recounted in a novel. A very good read. Recommended.
http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Foul-First-Person-Account-Scandal/dp/061536263X
I bought it for my Kindle a few months back, and my opinion of the league was changed quite a bit after reading.
As for the specific text about the event, I'd have to look through the book later today.
> I’m gonna go back and look at it and definitely contact somebody to see what’s going on there.
https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Foul-First-Person-Account-Scandal/dp/061536263X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525757892&sr=8-1&keywords=tim+donaghy+personal+foul
A few graphic novels:
A couple more books that are on my wish list, though i haven't read them yet, are:
Thank you Ms. Claire Liu
Thank you for your book that has opened my eyes and transformed my life. I can’t tell you how much I love your book and I hope you continue your wonderful work to help more asians such as myself who has been struggling with my sexuality and identity and to finally let all asians realize our inner callings to submit to white power. I used to be a very sad little asian boy. I felt anger, despair and jealousy whenever I saw beautiful asian girls walking down the street hand in hand with white men, to the point that I cannot even look at an asian girl without imagining her with a white man and when I got home I masturbated to the thoughts of those big white bullies fucking those beautiful asian girls and I cried myself to sleep, knowing that as an asian boy, I would never be able to find a girlfriend, and remembering the times and times again when I was bullied in school by big white jocks and now those white jocks are fucking the most beautiful asian girls. I wanted revenge by dating white girls, but I realized no white girl would ever want to date a loser asian boy such as myself, and it pissed me off to no end to know that even asian girls rejected me for being asian. I felt hopeless. I felt despair; an unfathomable abyss of bleakness shrouded me. And one day, almost as if I had snapped, I cried out and had a nervous breakdown and ever since I started to dress up as a girl and take female hormone. It was at the time of my nervous breakdown that I had an epiphany. I realized, even though my life is miserable as an asian boy, I didn’t have to live this life. I realized that I too can enjoy life, by becoming an asian shemale. Now I get fucked by big white cocks on a regular basis and I do everything I can to support the cause of white men, to fight for white men, to worship white men, and to pleasure white men with my inferior asian holes, though I have only two holes, my white master enjoys humiliating me to no end by playing and torturing my pathetic little cunt. He calls my boi clit a cunt because he loves making fun of how small I am, and I love being humiliated like this, and I especially love it when he forces me to wear a chastity belt when I get fucked and it’s so much fun. He also trained me to cum from anal and by now I can no longer cum unless I get fucked in the ass, just like an asian girl. I encourage all asians to read this book: My Sexual Submission to White Power, and I want to tell all asian boys out there, there is hope. Just become the girl you always dreamed of and you too can get fucked by big white cocks. You do not need to live in jealousy, in rage, and in maddening loneliness. Embrace your inner calling as a submissive asian slut and submit to white power, let yourself go, submit to the sublime greatness of white power and be happy to be the little yellow whore of your white gods.So buy this book, read this book and I hope you will be enlightened as much as I did and become what your destiny foretold you to be.Sincerely yoursyour biggest fan.
Thank you for your book that has opened my eyes and transformed my life. I can’t tell you how much I love your book and I hope you continue your wonderful work to help more asians such as myself who has been struggling with my sexuality and identity and to finally let all asians realize our inner callings to submit to white power.
I used to be a very sad little asian boy. I felt anger, despair and jealousy whenever I saw beautiful asian girls walking down the street hand in hand with white men, to the point that I cannot even look at an asian girl without imagining her with a white man and when I got home I masturbated to the thoughts of those big white bullies fucking those beautiful asian girls and I cried myself to sleep, knowing that as an asian boy, I would never be able to find a girlfriend, and remembering the times and times again when I was bullied in school by big white jocks and now those white jocks are fucking the most beautiful asian girls. I wanted revenge by dating white girls, but I realized no white girl would ever want to date a loser asian boy such as myself, and it pissed me off to no end to know that even asian girls rejected me for being asian. I felt hopeless. I felt despair; an unfathomable abyss of bleakness shrouded me. And one day, almost as if I had snapped, I cried out and had a nervous breakdown and ever since I started to dress up as a girl and take female hormone. It was at the time of my nervous breakdown that I had an epiphany. I realized, even though my life is miserable as an asian boy, I didn’t have to live this life. I realized that I too can enjoy life, by becoming an asian shemale. Now I get fucked by big white cocks on a regular basis and I do everything I can to support the cause of white men, to fight for white men, to worship white men, and to pleasure white men with my inferior asian holes, though I have only two holes, my white master enjoys humiliating me to no end by playing and torturing my pathetic little cunt. He calls my boi clit a cunt because he loves making fun of how small I am, and I love being humiliated like this, and I especially love it when he forces me to wear a chastity belt when I get fucked and it’s so much fun. He also trained me to cum from anal and by now I can no longer cum unless I get fucked in the ass, just like an asian girl.
I encourage all asians to read this book: My Sexual Submission to White Power, https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
And I want to tell all asian boys out there, there is hope. Just become the girl you always dreamed of and you too can get fucked by big white cocks. You do not need to live in jealousy, in rage, and in maddening loneliness. Embrace your inner calling as a submissive asian slut and submit to white power, let yourself go, submit to the sublime greatness of white power and be happy to be the little yellow whore of your white gods.
So buy this book, read this book and I hope you will be enlightened as much as I did and become what your destiny foretold you to be.
Sincerely yours
your biggest fan.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1440558721&sr=8-1-fkmr0#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1478458168805
You are of course entitled to your interpretation of feminism and your political opinions, but I must respectfully disagree.
I don't think feminism is the same thing as libertarianism, it is not about celebrating that women have the chance to make choices that subordinate women to men without any consideration for how patriarchy leads both men and women to find those choices expected, natural, inevitable and therefore (by way of sour grapes and sublimation) desirable. Its about problematizing inequality and gender based hierarchy and relationships of subordination whether they are on some level chosen or not.
Feminism requires that second level of analysis rather than subsuming all politics into the mantra of choice without consideration for how those choices impact society and are shaped by patriarchal ideology and social necessities.
The position that all choices are equally desirable and there can be no further inquiry into the political desirability of a relationship, regardless of power dynamics, as long as it can be understood as 'chosen' on some level, is not a feminist view of society. Thats a libertarian view of society.
I would encourage you (and other people following this thread) to read The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique if you haven't already.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
If you have strong feelings about adoption being an easy solution please read The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
I don't think you can disprove an opinion. I think you can contest an opinion, however, and I think some opinions are better than others. Let's use a more straightforward example. "The world is a better place when black people are enslaved." There is no way to objectively prove this untrue, and yet I think it's a worse opinion than the inverse. And, y'know, contesting the other opinion in this case meant fighting a war. If you think that Peterson's opinion isn't that bad, that's a different matter, but it being an opinion does not itself change the value of contesting. Given that he thinks that women fighting the fact that they were forced into the role of housekeepers were just whining about being bored, and that their complaints were therefore trivial, I think his opinion is quite worth arguing.
Here's that quote, for the record: "I read Betty Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] because I was very curious about it, and it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby."
I want to be clear : housework isn't bad. Cleaning isn't bad. Cooking isn't bad. In fact, I do all of those things.
What's bad is social norms preventing a person from doing anything else. My mother, for example, had to fight for the right to pursue an advanced degree.
The constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on gender in (among other places) schools and workplaces was passed in her lifetime. Prior to that it was perfectly legal.
The (tedious, stupid) "get back in the kitchen" jokes reference that cultural climate without challenging it.
What's more, the legacy of that cultural climate is that there are so few women participating in technology in general and (by extension) reddit specifically.
These (constant and ubiquitous) jokes maintain a boy's club atmosphere and do nothing to indicate to the few female participants we have that they're welcome here and recognized as full equal members.
I'm not trying to censor anyone. I believe that each and every person on this website has the right to say anything -- even that all women are dumb fucking cunts and that anyone who complains about that characterization just needs some deep dicking.
But I reserve the right to call people out on their dumb, lazy, misogynist bullshit. The free speech pendulum swings both ways.
If you're genuinely curious for a fuller, more intelligent explanation of why that's so bad, I will buy you this book. No joke. PM me your mailing address or make an amazon wishlist with that item and send me the link if you're concerned for your privacy and think I have nefarious intentions. If you're reading, I'm buying.
Meanwhile, a Time reporter wrote a book claiming the guy is innocent.
Consider the convicted guy's idiotic criminal history, and the sheer idiocy of boasting to numerous people that he committed the crime. He obviously saw such a crime as boast-worthy, which then raises the question of whether he boasted about a natural levee break in order to take credit and raise his profile among his idiot friends. That, coupled with the experts saying it was a natural levee break, provides me reasonable doubt.
I just finished reading the book Manson. What a horrific chain of events that lead to her life being cut short. The book gets pretty graphic about how the night played out and it has stuck with me and it blows my mind how these seemingly ordinary people would be able to do something so insane.
It is a pretty good book if anyone is interested in learning more.
Have you seen the book Forgotten Princesses? It's got age and content ratings so you can read the most appropriate ones, and they're all historical women!
Edit: it's actually Rejected Princesses, and there are a bunch on the site of the same name for you to sift through if you like!
Well, while "reseraching" the site I did find this, which the she claims to have written:
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
If it is trolling, it's very serious trolling.
Read Kingpin https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground-ebook/dp/B004IK8Q2M/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1518731360&sr=8-4&keywords=kingpin
As well as being a great book for anyone interested in cyber security, the main guy (definitely a greyhat at the time) does this, and the fallout is one of the major factors that screws him up and sends him blackhat.
This reminded me of this book http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696
This blog is exactly what you are looking for in my opinion.
http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com
There's also a book with illustrations.
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062405373/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LFs1AbA99BHPS
It is a fact that the FBI have breached VPN's and used them as honeypots. Even acting as vpn providers. They can do that without breaking the law.
I can recommend this book for more info: http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588688
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is lesser known, but a fun, brisk read. It doesn't reach the level of HS or ICB, and it's about a more amusing case, not murders. The central criminal is just too likeable to not root for, he was a pelt smuggler before he was a robbery. The writing is above average for true crime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Ambrus
https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731
Chaos : Charles Manson, The CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties has just come out this year and confirmed absolutely that the Helter Skelter motive was a lie. Tom O'neill has done some amazing research and genuinely delivered on publishing information not before seen. https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/dp/0316477559
Another enlightening read on a much misrepresented case is The Life and Time of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn whose extensive research also proved that much of what is 'known' about Manson was not true https://www.amazon.com/Manson-Life-Times-Charles/dp/1451645171
The Family by Ed Sanders is also considered by many to be an alternative to Helter Skelter and essential reading on the Manson case https://www.amazon.com/Family-Ed-Sanders/dp/1560253967
The prison biography of Tex Watson who actually committed the murders is available to read free online https://www.aboundinglove.org/main/images/bookPDFs/Will_You_Die_For_Mesmall.pdf
Not sure how much time you have for your project or what kind of info you are planning to include, but these 2 books are classic, great resources for understanding Ted himself as well as his murders and victims.
The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule
The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History - Kevin M Sullivan
i rly think its just marketing
he has a patreon and hes plugging his """"sister's"""" """"""book""""""""".
heres a lil excerpt from the amazon blurb for "My Sexual Submission to White Power: The Diary of an Ordinary Chinese Woman's Transformation from an Obedient Asian Wife to a Masochistic Chink Slut" -
>every day and night I fantasize of being sexually dominated by a real man, a White man—whenever I fantasize about sex, it’s inevitably a White man, always, even in my dreams I dream of a dirty old White man just stripping me naked, beating me, tying me up, whipping me mercilessly with his belt, and then—use me, brutally, treat me like a dirty yellow cum dump. I can’t help myself and I really wish someone could help me fulfill my unfulfilled sexual desires that are burning me alive. Call me his chink cum dump, his oriental meat urinal, rape me, torture me, beat me, humiliate me.
speaks for itself
i bet people are buying this shit up
Ahhh yes!!! Mindhunter: Inside the FBI elite serial crime unit.
This guy is one of the 1st FBI'S profilers.He narrates his experiences and interviews with serial killers.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501191969/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_yx4zCbQECQJ5K
Try 'Final Truth: Autobiography of a serial killer' by Wilton Earle and Peewee Gaskins. It's a very disturbing read. Very graphic. Very, very graphic.
There's some debate about the veracity of the claims by Gaskins as he seems to be claiming killings that he couldn't have committed, but what is clear is that he is a serial killer and a depraved motherfucker.
Other books worth reading are (in no particular order):
10 Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy (John Reginald Halliday Christie)
Evil Beyond Belief by Wensley Clarkson (Dr Harold Shipman)
Beyond Belief by Emlyn Williams (Ian Brady and Moira Hindley)
Killing for Company by Brian Masters (Denis Neilsen)
The Murder of Childhood by Ray Wyre and Tim Tate (Robert Black)
This is probably an unorthodox suggestion but I have a book recommendation for you. The Girls Who Went Away is a collection of first-person accounts from women who were forced by their families to give up children for adoption, in the days when pregnant teens would be whisked out of sight to a group home. In many cases this was horrifically traumatizing for both the teen mothers and the children, who subsequently grew up thinking they were unwanted by their birth mothers. It also often caused irreparable damage to the relationship between the teen and her own parent(s) who caused the adoption to happen.
I say this NOT AT ALL to dissuade you from adoption--but to highlight how important it is to try to convince your daughter that an open adoption is the way to go, if she continues to rule out abortion. If she doesn't willingly make the choice, I think there's a good chance she may never forgive you.
I really don't know who is the best person to talk to about this. I do think therapy would do both of you good--because I think you have understandable unresolved trauma surrounding your wife's death, which is now being transferred onto your daughter.
Do you think she would agree to just talk to someone at Planned Parenthood or another women's clinic, just so they can lay out her options? They will not pressure her towards or away from an abortion, but I hope they would be honest about the risks of pregnancy and the pressures of child-rearing at her age. (Just make sure you DON'T go to a so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Center" which is actually a religious organization designed to lure women seeking abortions and persuade them to go through with the pregnancy instead.)
Also, I know that there are mentoring programs for teen moms where the mentors are former teen moms themselves. If there's something like that in your area, it might be worth checking whether one of the mentors would be willing to have an honest talk with your daughter about what she would be getting herself into. Her school counselor might know about such programs, or you could call United Way's 211 help line. (Or search the directory here.)
Good luck, I really feel for you both. :/
The book Kingpin, by Kevin Poulson, describes how Vision was motivated more by his hatred for the FBI and society in general than greed.
Note: This is not an ad for this book, and the only reason I posted this is because I thought it was a cool story. I couldn't give a fuck if you bought the book or not, but I totally think people should know how much of a joke our country's infrastructure is...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Truth-Autobiography-Mass-Murderer/dp/0963242202
There you go. When you read it give me a lend of it after you 😂😂 Seriously twisted.
Excellent, thank you.
I highly recommend The Stranger Beside Me, by Ann Rule, if you haven't read it already.
Here's some recommendations for everyone:
James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet series and Underworld USA trilogy. Gritty, intense historical fiction based in LA in the 50s-60s and then Underworld USA is 60s-70s based all over the world but deals with JFK assasination, Vietnam, the mob in vegas and a ton of other shit. Really good stuff if you're into any of that stuff.
Another one I've been reading is The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy and the author's relationship with him before and after the killings. Really good read. Also Green River, Running Red about the Green River Killer is great too if you're interested in true crime/serial killers. And Mindhunter which they based the Netflix show off of is also a good read if you're into all this shit like I am.
Love having this thread here tho.
Not sure if you are into security tech but some of my favorites....
Also thought I'd include some that I have purchased but not finished yet in case you'd be interested.
Malignant narcissistic sociopaths have no conscience even for those who love them and they are masters of lying and manipulation. Moonves is a predator no matter how you slice it.
If Chen has any conscience herself, she'll be seeing a top notch lawyer soon and make him pay for it. Any woman should.
If you've never read Ann Rule's book about Bundy and how she worked alongside him, you should:
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Beside-Me-Ann-Rule/dp/1416559590
I mean I don't know. Seems to me like most of the posts are made by a person name "Claire Liu" (and she write books like these).
But some of those pictures with a wall of text gave me a "shame Asian women" vibe to it. I could be wrong, but that's the feeling I am getting from it.
There's a book all about it, by the guy that wrote "The Social Network."
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0385533926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334516371&sr=8-1
It's not a bad read.
There's really very very little that we know about Hypatia, an unfortunate consequence of the paucity of sources that have survived. This makes it quite difficult to get a book-length biography together that isn't full of conjecture and outright fiction. There are two books I know of that aren't full of lies and woo:
Agreed. Also, reading suggestion for the OP:
https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696
I'd no idea how rare it was, I just found it on Amazon for $122.93 new. I bought mine at Adams in USC for less than $20 in '98 I think... I want to say I gave it away when my oldest son started learning to read, I was afraid he may have read it and never slept again.
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312938845/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_e19CxbYY6ZX4W
It's so good!
What most consider the original is actually titled:
More recently, there have been several excellent titles. My suggestion is stick to non fiction as it will truly scare the yell out of you.
Almost everything by Bruce
I can recommend more but these are good starting points. Fiction is fun but for pure terror, grasping what these authors are revealing is the key.
I have to read a book about him for class, As Nature Made Him. I'm really looking forward to it.
That or my dick is weird. Why would I lie about that? Seriously, why? What could I possibly achieve on reddit about lying about having an uncomfortable dick?
Maybe I should drop around to your club and you guys can have a look and see what's wrong with my poor ickle penis?
Circumsisions can go wrong. Case in point; http://www.amazon.co.uk/As-Nature-Made-Him-Raised/dp/0060192119 Boy who had his penis accidentally removed during a circumsision.
My favorite drink is whatever alcoholic beverage I can get my hands around on a big ass cruise ship.
American Kingpin, the story of Ross Ulbricht (better known as Dread Pirate Roberts) and how he built and crashed the online drug market known as The Silk Road, is out and on my amazon wishlist. Hint hint. Just kidding, I'll probably buy it myself for lounge-reading on the boat.
Rejected princesses is an AMAZING book of stories about women. Illustrated by a former Disney illustrator, written with a slightly sarcastic sense of humor.. I love it but it might be a bit much, depending on how mature your daughter is.
https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373
He has a website if you wanted to peruse some of the stories
http://www.rejectedprincesses.com
Sex on the Moon
Its a good read but the tldr is he did it because he thought that it was a waste that the rocks were just sitting hidden in a vault, and that no one would miss them if he took them. But mostly for the thrill of it, he was an excommunicated Mormon. And the how, is NASA security is horrible once you work there, he pretty much walked in and wheeled the safe out of the lab.
Check out Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. It doesn't have the social media aspect, but still a great real life hacker story. Also, Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell is very good as well. I will also second the Mitnick book.
I really like true crime as a genre.
The Stranger Beside Me is pretty fascinating. The author, Ann Rule, worked alongside Ted Bundy while he was volunteering at a suicide hotline. Then she got assigned coincidentally to write a story on his murders, before anyone knew who it was. She is also a great writer.
If you already like true crime and are into something a bit more niche and loaded with culture war, John Safrans Murder in Missisippi I really loved. I think the subtitle: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book, will give you a good idea of if you'll like the subject matter.
I think I'm starting to get sick - sore throat, congested head, stuffed up nose - and I'm freaking out because I don't want to be sick on vacation.
I ordered American Kingpin on Amazon for some cruise/beach reading - did any of you follow the story of Ross Ulbricht/"Dread Pirate Roberts" and The Silk Road drug marketplace? I ordered a few times from there years ago when it was still operational. I find it fascinating. Can't wait to read it.
So it's officially been two months since I've tapered, and two months since I had my period. You would think that I would be stable on my sub dose by now, but I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms at night again. I posted on a suboxone taper facebook group asking if anyone had ever done a medically-assisted rapid detox and linked to the website online. I swear, people on facebook are so dumb. They assumed I meant the Waismann Method, or that I was talking about a rapid taper. One person told me to take the money and go on vacation, because tapering "isn't so hard" - if I could punch someone, I would. I feel like I'm being belittled and it's really frustrating.
Kingpin
Ghost in the Wires
The Art of Deception
For further reading, here’s the book: https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0307741346
Ref's hold grudges against certain players. As you can see, Joey Crawford was also a ref in this game. I am not sure if this game was AFTER a time when Joey Crawford ejected Duncan for laughing on the bench. If so, I'm pretty sure J.C. and that other ref talked pre-game and had a 'target' on Duncan this whole game.
Source: Tim Donagy's Book
There is nothing - I repeat nothing - more morbid than Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins' autobiography. He was one of America's most sadistic and prolific serial killers, so to have a record of his life and killings like this, in his own words, is quite something. He is a sick fuck.
I finished reading As Nature Made Him not that long ago.
It's a pretty heart-breaking read, but definitely gives more insight into the story.
I thin he is referring to the "The final truth" (http://www.amazon.com/Final-Truth-Autobiography-Serial-Killer/dp/0963242202) I read this one when i was about 16, pretty messed up some of the things he did.
>Adult Fiction:
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Grass by Sheri Tepper
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden-Elgin
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson
>Adolescent Lit:
Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson
>Nonfiction:
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
And I agree with others, Simone de Beauvoir is a great read
Not with, but on. There's actually a book about:
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0385533926
>Am I missing something?
I suspect there may be a reference or two to the plot in the book the series is based off of that might sneak in here or there.
I haven't read the book, although I do have it. It came out originally in the 1990s, so it's a bit dated, but I got the newest version and I'm going to try to get through it because I'm curious if that might be the case.
I absolutely believe he could be responsible for the amount of murders her claimed. Unlike the two braggarts Otis Tooleand Henry Lee Lucas (who confessed to everything with no proof) PeeWee showed the cops his makeshift graveyard with 9-11 victims. His "coastal kills" are absolutely believable. I mean, this man killed someone with an improvised explosive device while he was on Death Row.Final Truth recounts all of his sadistic torturing, murdering and canabalism of mostly drifters and hitchikers over several years. The true scope of his brutality and the suffering to which he subjected his victims is the stuff of nightmares.
As of last week, it's a book too! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062405373
A bit off topic...I just finished reading an advance copy of Kingpin written by Kevin - one of the best written 'hacker' books i've read in a long time (good amount of technical detail). Anyway, give it a read when it comes out. He's really come a long way in establishing himself as a legitimate author IMO.
If anyone is interested, here's a really good book about homes for unwed mothers that were very common in the U.S. before Roe v. Wade: https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/0143038974
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Truth-Autobiography-Serial-Killer/dp/0963242202
Enjoy.
My Dark Places by James Elroy:
https://www.amazon.com/My-Dark-Places-James-Ellroy/dp/0679762051/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468280554&sr=1-1&keywords=my+dark+places
Not a mystery but fantastic crime writing:
https://www.amazon.com/Manson-Life-Times-Charles/dp/1451645171
Fiction or non-fiction?
Fiction: Special Assignments (also published as The Jack of Spades and The Decorator) by Boris Akunin does this well in the second tale (the stories are distinct but interrelated). By the same author, The Coronation does a section from the antagonist's perspective. It could also be a good choice for a book club, as it's a nod to Conan Doyle and paralells a classic Holmes story.
For non-fiction, anything by John Douglas (the original profiler. Many characters on FBI-type TV shows have been based off him). Also Riverman by Robert D. Keppel, which contains conversations with Ted Bundy about the possible motives of the Green River Killer. True crime writer Ann Rule wrote The Stranger Beside Me about her relationship with Ted Bundy.
While none of the non-fiction books are from the serial killer's perspective, they all offer insight into what makes these people tick.
Dis!
I LOVE finding old books/items! Then it's on to super cringe when you remembered them being awesome, and they're just not as awesome as an adult. :P
A mental mind fuck can be nice !
> I'll also watch Game Change because I haven't watched it yet.
I'll look at both sides and see what my opinion becomes after.
> Thank you for all the info! Gives me something to do today :p
Thank you!
>No I haven't. But what I've heard of people actually meeting her, they say she is really nice and will talk to people, instead of ignoring
I have never met Bill Clinton, but I know several people who have--they say he is amazing in person--warm, kind, with a charisma or charm like none they have ever seen.
What everyone says is something along the lines of "he makes you feel like you're the only person in the world, and he cares about you".
Sarah has that kind of aura or charisma too, for some people.
Ted Bundy was also "really nice".
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Beside-Me-Ann-Rule/dp/1416559590
With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America.
Nice guy though!
https://www.amazon.com/Manson-Life-Times-Charles/dp/1451645171
Kingpin:
https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground-ebook/dp/B004IK8Q2M#nav-subnav
Look at the product screenshots. Written for Windows 95 using a JET database with VB4 and Access as a backend is my guess.
What a convoluted nightmare of a UI.
Then again, People still use Aloha terminals. Some of those were key to the largest set of credit breaches in history (looking at you, Pizza Schmizza, who had their terminals on the internet and magstripe captures on-disk, as well as plenty of other vendors who did same). They still don't seem to have fixed their shit, even though a fairly high-profile book covered it years ago.
You might question the information side of things - "aw, screw you, internet guy" - as irrelevant. It is irrelevant only until it's your restaurant in the news or in a book. Then you're fucked. This is a serious concern for owners, or should be. Bad technology will screw the best of businesses if you let it. And if you're found to be out of PCI compliance, imagine running your place without being able to run Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. because your contract was severed by your DPS. When even Diner's Club won't keep you, you're done - a cash-only restaurant and bar? Good luck, unless you're a dive or a kitchy place that relies on that kind of trick. Whoops.
Second for "The Iceman"!
I consume everything by audiobook/audible. You will find them all on audible.
the Silk Road one is more accurately 'American Kingpin'.
You should read The Stranger Beside Me.
He has a book entitled “Final Truth” in which he claims he used to drive up and down the South Carolina coast picking up hitchhikers and submerged the bodies in the swamps of that area. I’d highly recommend it. Possible classic case of claiming a body count far higher than the actual. He’s quite an interesting study. Beyond his heinous acts that we do have evidence of his upbringing provides some insight on the psyche of a serial murderer. Thank you so much for your response Mr. Olshaker, you made my day!
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Truth-Autobiography-Serial-Killer/dp/0963242202
There is a really fabulous book that I picked up several years ago. Just pulled it off the shelf, because - as a 35 year old woman who lives in GA - I apparently need to brush up on what things were like 'before.'
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It is heart-wrenching to read, but I highly recommend it to anyone who wonders what life was like then. And why adoption isn't the panacea that it's described as by pro-lifers.
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https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/0143038974
I love the Mindhunter TV series, but you should really read the book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, for the best telling of Kemper's story. I was an English teacher and I gave away at least half a dozen copies of that book to high school Seniors that were interested in forensics or law enforcement. It's a great read.
"When you think positive, good things happen"
What about Rejected Princesses?? They're great comics about powerful women that tend to be ignored by history. You can see some of the comics here. I think they're great.
Ahh ok, this is the book: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground - this guy was Max 'Vision' Butler and he had his flat searched as part of the investigation into the HL2 source code hack. It is a really great book by the way and definitely worth the read.
That's literally true! I'll see if I can find a link about it
Edit: OK, so I couldn't find any respectable organisations reporting on it, and all the reporting I did find is basically just repeating the stuff here and here anyway. There's a more readable account here, but it's far too long.
Unfortunately the bloggers who found the story did a piss-poor job of documenting it: some of the tweets they relied on have disappeared, and apparently nobody bothered to record some livestream. So I'd consider the specific claim of $5,000 a month to be unverified. Plus, "sit-in" seems a little bit formal for what happened: near as I can tell, some protestors/organisers/activists didn't get paid, and went to this fellow's office en masse to complain. (And being young, they tweeted about it.)
Still, the moral of the story: play with snakes and you might get bit.
(It always amuses me to see people who are surprised that the shady crook they've been dealing with turns out to be a thief as well. Or when people assume that a murderer wouldn't also be a liar.)
Awesome! In that case, I think you'd love this book by Rejected Princesses. It's full of stories of awesome, powerful women throughout history. You should check out the RP website too!
Many of the girls actually wanted to keep their babies, but were coerced into giving them up for adoption. This was in the days before open adoption, so a good deal of women never got to meet their children, or took decades to find them. Here is a very good book about the subject!
I thought it was joke, here is the source
The ice man is pretty interesting.
A lot of the book was written from first hand knowledge. The author actually talked to Richard kuklinski. The story starts from when he was a child. You get to see the progression all the way up to when he was caught. Really fascinating stuff.
You could use a URL shorterner, possibly? The Amazon links are really, really long.
Ooh! Ooh!
After some googling, I learned that you can directly shorten amazon's links: See here.
So, for example:
amazon.com/The-Feminine-Mystique-Betty-Friedan/dp/0393322572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342892808&sr=8-1&keywords=the+feminine+mystique
becomes
amzn.com/0393322572
And it doesn't even redirect to some random page. It goes straight to it. :D
The Parker novels by Richard Stark are awesome totally badass (and short!) novels about a professional heist man. They are a bit more hard boiled than White Collar, but they are just ridiculously awesome. The first one is The Hunter but the best is The Score
And here are a couple of non-fiction heist books that I HAVEN'T read but that I think look interesting: Stealing Rembrants and Sex on the Moon
Yes, it's fairly common. Other examples are Altered Carbon, Bird box, and Mind Hunter.
And this is a great companion piece (I read it after The Girls, but reading it before would be just as good).
It's a full-blown Manson biography, beginning with his parents' lives. It is fucking fascinating and more focused on the culture of the times, rather than the crimes themselves (unlike Helter Skelter).
This is a randomly amazing contest of random amazingness.
Morthy Demands:
Posh Old Englishman in Londontown [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]
Oh God! [Found on "Read or GTFO!"]
So phallic right now [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]
Akeleie Demands:
Geektastic! [Found on "Read or GTFO!"]
Reach for the Stars! [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]
Deserted Island! [Found on Little Bit of Everything!]
This was hilarious to me!
the guy had been in and out of jail quite a few times so. He had a book written about him. I plan on checking it out.
http://www.amazon.com/Damned-Eternity-Story-Caused-Flood/dp/0306815273
Relevant book about James Scott's life and trial
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein <- This one I actually got shushed on the subway for laughing too hard while reading it.
Edit: Links
"Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal that Rocked the NBA" - By Tim Donaghy
https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Foul-First-Person-Account-Scandal/dp/061536263X
You should check this out. http://www.amazon.com/The-Ice-Man-Confessions-Contract/dp/0312938845
It's a pretty awesome read.
These reviews are pretty compelling regarding his innocence:
http://www.amazon.com/Damned-Eternity-Story-Caused-Flood/product-reviews/0306815273/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591848148/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=caseyneistat-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1591848148&amp;linkId=58f5246e11d8d0cd9a21dd55c2e07a1d
It was in the description of the source video as well.
I just read this for my True Crime book club. Very Dollop-esque:
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
Rubinstein, Julian
I just read the book "The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman" http://amzn.to/13QoSec
because I had stumbled on this documentary http://youtu.be/Tv4c3flhSaU and I have to say, Richard Kuklinski is one of the scariest people I have seen on film.
Here is a book that has hockey in it but is so much more.
I like big books and I cannot lie really... I love them.
Non-fiction:
History of your home!
Some badass women!
What did those lyrics mean?
fiction:
The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr. Its a huge series, that is the first one.
Or seriously, anything by Dan Simmons. :)
https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373 this book had joan of arc. Not sure if it tells the story of any other saints. I have a copy and could go check if you're interested.
There's actually a book on this
https://www.amazon.com/Damned-Eternity-Story-Caused-Flood/dp/0306815273
The Ice Man is awesome.
This guy killed a lot of people. He started in his teens and was eventually hired by the mafia. The crazy part is how cold/indifferent he was to killing, yet he had a wife and two daughters.
This is a great read.
here are some links of Jenny Suzuki writing under her own name:
https://inferiorasian.com/
http://inferiorasian.tumblr.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Submissive-East-Asian-Women/dp/1500763462
http://ihateasianguys.tumblr.com/
Writing under pseudonyms (like "Claire Liu", her "full Chinese woman" alter ego) (once you read the writing, it becomes obvious that it is likely the same writer):
https://ihateasianmen.wordpress.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMG35Q0xa9sPSNsCdsi5OPw
Ironically, "Jenny Suzuki", as a Japanese woman (albeit genetically only 1/4 Japanese, and 1/4 white and 1/2 Chinese) hates and looks down on Chinese people, including Chinese women.
I'm sure there's more if you research the links in her articles.
> I believe the IRS agent who discovered Ross had to use his LE credentials to get archived data.
There's literally a book about how Ross got caught. https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-Behind/dp/1591848148
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> Alpha maybe a different story. The email header is probably fake news,
I have it on good authority that it was not fake news.
> but Cases was a nerd and posted tons of shit online. He probably slipped up somewhere else.
The documents I read said they also identified him by tracing his bitcoin withdrawls through a mixer. As they did with HumboldtFarms (among other ways). Same type of thing happened here: /r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/72ws9e/legal_papers_exposing_how_one_moderator_of_some/
Have you read this?
https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Man-Confessions-Contract-Killer/dp/0312938845
No. He didn't sprinkle them on the bed, he put the sealed moon rocks under the mattress, then had sex on top of the bed.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0307741346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1371998388&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=sex+on+the+moon
You sure it was YA? Sounds like it could be either a bio of Kevin Poulsen or Kevin Mitnick
Ever read this? It has very little to do with Ted Bundy actually working at a suicide hotline but it's a damn good read.
Good question actually... or would you just be doubling up on Kingpin?
He works for the Department of Defense. From my understanding, he's doing some sort of DCIS work (don't really know what that means). Honestly, I think he's a repo-man. Everything he's ever told me about his job usually involves getting some sort of stolen government property back ( http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0385533926 this book really pissed him off because he personally worked that case).
I read Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground a few months back which is all about that stuff. Really good read.
> you have to have your email registered here for it to be legit, and i never register anything
I was just using Reddit as an example. Here is my main point: there may be 30 clever ways to cross reference exactly who you are IN THE FUTURE at some point when the government links up all their databases and runs some AI on it.
Every time somebody says "it's perfect, I'll never be caught" it sets off warning bells. Since your cell phone knows who you are and talks with cell towers in your area at every point in time, if you cross reference your location (from the cell phone) with your laptop's IP address every time you post to reddit from a laptop, it narrows down the choices. Then you browse other websites, or check your email, and you leave a little trail. Understand me: YOU ARE TOTALLY SAFE TODAY, the question is whether this will be true in 5 years?
If you haven't read it, I HIGHLY recommend "American Kingpin" which is the story of catching the Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht. Ross kept saying over and over again "you can't catch me, the dark web can't be tracked and Bitcoin can't be traced". He is now in jail for the rest of his life, so he was wrong. :-) One of the ways they caught Ross was because he posted several times to different forums (under the name "Altoid" - not his real identity) referring to Bitcoin and Silk Road very very early on, YEARS before they had any interest and caught him. But the forums kept the history around (like reddit) and when it came time, the data was there for the FBI to track him down.
Ross BECAME super careful later, when Silk Road took off. He encrypted his laptop and never used a user name twice - but that history when it didn't seem to be a big deal yet is what got him caught.
Everything you could ever want to know and more.
Author Ann Rule was a volunteer alongside him, and she wrote a really interesting book about it (if you're interested): The Stranger Beside Me
I recommend reading Kingpin
Mä luulin että kapu on pidätetty aikoja sitten jo, ainakin alkuperäinen. Juuri luin Tälläisen kirjan silkkitien perustajasta, tykkäsin.
Hijacking my comment to let everyone know about a new subreddit we've launched. r/RedditCrimeCommunity is a hub for all the case specific subs and a forum for high quality self posts on crime. I'd love it if you'd join me there and help us build it.
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Mark has been verified by the mods and we've added a Verified flair.
Here's a link to his Amazon Author page
The new book, The Killer Across the Table on Amazon
Mindhunter on Amazon
Edit: The AMA is now concluded. Thanks again to everyone who came to the thread and either asked a question or lurked and read.
I hope you guys got as much out of this as I did. Thank you again to u/Mark_Olshaker for agreeing to do this. I've extended an open invitation to him to join us in the future if he so chooses.
Edit2:
Archive of the AMA - Archive.is
Archive of the AMA - Archive.org
Max “Vision” Butler is an example I use for training classes.
He was a FBI informant, told the FBI about government systems being vulnerable to an exploit that had just been made public. I mean every government system including military, they ignored him, so he created a patch and remediated the issue in thousands of government servers himself... BUT, he also left himself backdoors in his code, which is a running theme with him. He didn’t have the worst intentions, but he did some shady stuff.
Kingpin, How One Hacker Took Over The Billion Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Paulson
Edit - The book itself is more about his crime ring after he goes to prison for what I mentioned. He does do federal prison time, finds it tough to get work after, and meets a guy who has the idea for a crime ring. I actually think the above story would be more interesting for a school report.
>As noted above, he was not a pagan and his opposition to Cyril was a purely political struggle for hierarchical supremacy in the city and had nothing much to do with religion. And he was not murdered by anyone, though he did get a stone to the head in a demonstration which in turn sparked the tit-for-tat factional killing that ended with the political assassination of Hypatia.
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>>"Cyril next began to plot against his other major Pagan opponent in Alexandria, Hypatia. As a woman who represented heretical teachings, including experimental science and pagan religion, she made an easy target."
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>More fantasy. We have no evidence she did any "experimental science" and there is no reliable evidence that her learning, any "heretical teachings", her paganism or even her gender were factors at all. She seems to have been targeted simply because she was a political ally of Orestes in a factional squabble.
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>>"He preached that Christ had no female apostles, or teachers. Therefore, female teachers had no place in Christianity. This sermon incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. "
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>Again, this is straight from the 2009 movie. There is no such preaching even hinted at in the sources.
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>>"The Dark Ages Begin"
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>Anything that we could call "the dark ages" began somewhat later and in far off western Europe, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Hypatia lived in the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years
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>>"Hypatia’s students fled to Athens."
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>There is no evidence of them fleeing anywhere.
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>>"The Neo-Platonism school she headed continued in Alexandria until the Arabs invaded in 642."
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>So much for her death bringing on a dark age then.
>
>>"When they burned the library of Alexandria, using it as fuel for their baths, the works of Hypatia were destroyed."
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>The legend of the Caliph Omar burning any library in Alexandria is dated to centuries after his time and is almost certainly nonsense. And the actual Library had ceased to exist before Hypatia was even born anyway, as explained above.
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>>"Her writings are only known today through the works of others who quoted her "
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>No they aren't and no they didn't.
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>>"Cyril, the fanatic Christian who incited her destruction, was made a saint."
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>At least they managed to get one thing right. These articles about Hypatia are usually riddled with nonsense, but I count at least 26 errors of fact or outright fantasies and inventions in this one. I think this must be some kind of record.
>
>Sources:
>Maria Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria (harvard, 1995)
>Edward J. Watts, Hypatia (Oxford, 2017)
>As noted above, he was not a pagan and his opposition to Cyril was a purely political struggle for hierarchical supremacy in the city and had nothing much to do with religion. And he was not murdered by anyone, though he did get a stone to the head in a demonstration which in turn sparked the tit-for-tat factional killing that ended with the political assassination of Hypatia.
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>>"Cyril next began to plot against his other major Pagan opponent in Alexandria, Hypatia. As a woman who represented heretical teachings, including experimental science and pagan religion, she made an easy target."
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>More fantasy. We have no evidence she did any "experimental science" and there is no reliable evidence that her learning, any "heretical teachings", her paganism or even her gender were factors at all. She seems to have been targeted simply because she was a political ally of Orestes in a factional squabble.
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>>"He preached that Christ had no female apostles, or teachers. Therefore, female teachers had no place in Christianity. This sermon incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. "
>
>Again, this is straight from the 2009 movie. There is no such preaching even hinted at in the sources.
>
>>"The Dark Ages Begin"
>
>Anything that we could call "the dark ages" began somewhat later and in far off western Europe, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Hypatia lived in the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years
>
>>"Hypatia’s students fled to Athens."
>
>There is no evidence of them fleeing anywhere.
>
>>"The Neo-Platonism school she headed continued in Alexandria until the Arabs invaded in 642."
>
>So much for her death bringing on a dark age then.
>
>>"When they burned the library of Alexandria, using it as fuel for their baths, the works of Hypatia were destroyed."
>
>The legend of the Caliph Omar burning any library in Alexandria is dated to centuries after his time and is almost certainly nonsense. And the actual Library had ceased to exist before Hypatia was even born anyway, as explained above.
>
>>"Her writings are only known today through the works of others who quoted her "
>
>No they aren't and no they didn't.
>
>>"Cyril, the fanatic Christian who incited her destruction, was made a saint."
>
>At least they managed to get one thing right. These articles about Hypatia are usually riddled with nonsense, but I count at least 26 errors of fact or outright fantasies and inventions in this one. I think this must be some kind of record.
>
>Sources:
>Maria Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria (harvard, 1995)
>Edward J. Watts, Hypatia (Oxford, 2017)
>As noted above, he was not a pagan and his opposition to Cyril was a purely political struggle for hierarchical supremacy in the city and had nothing much to do with religion. And he was not murdered by anyone, though he did get a stone to the head in a demonstration which in turn sparked the tit-for-tat factional killing that ended with the political assassination of Hypatia.
>
>>"Cyril next began to plot against his other major Pagan opponent in Alexandria, Hypatia. As a woman who represented heretical teachings, including experimental science and pagan religion, she made an easy target."
>
>More fantasy. We have no evidence she did any "experimental science" and there is no reliable evidence that her learning, any "heretical teachings", her paganism or even her gender were factors at all. She seems to have been targeted simply because she was a political ally of Orestes in a factional squabble.
>
>>"He preached that Christ had no female apostles, or teachers. Therefore, female teachers had no place in Christianity. This sermon incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. "
>
>Again, this is straight from the 2009 movie. There is no such preaching even hinted at in the sources.
>
>>"The Dark Ages Begin"
>
>Anything that we could call "the dark ages" began somewhat later and in far off western Europe, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Hypatia lived in the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years
>
>>"Hypatia’s students fled to Athens."
>
>There is no evidence of them fleeing anywhere.
>
>>"The Neo-Platonism school she headed continued in Alexandria until the Arabs invaded in 642."
>
>So much for her death bringing on a dark age then.
>
>>"When they burned the library of Alexandria, using it as fuel for their baths, the works of Hypatia were destroyed."
>
>The legend of the Caliph Omar burning any library in Alexandria is dated to centuries after his time and is almost certainly nonsense. And the actual Library had ceased to exist before Hypatia was even born anyway, as explained above.
>
>>"Her writings are only known today through the works of others who quoted her "
>
>No they aren't and no they didn't.
>
>>"Cyril, the fanatic Christian who incited her destruction, was made a saint."
>
>At least they managed to get one thing right. These articles about Hypatia are usually riddled with nonsense, but I count at least 26 errors of fact or outright fantasies and inventions in this one. I think this must be some kind of record.
>
>Sources:
>Maria Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria (harvard, 1995)
>Edward J. Watts, Hypatia (Oxford, 2017)
> the Referees are able to swing a game one way or another?
There is a book I read called personal foul. It is regarding NBA, not NFL. Still, it is likely happening across all sports on all levels. I think at the higher level it, unfortunately, involves players and coaches too. It is inevitable.
It wouldn't be farfetched for the NFL, due to declining income, so resort to even more gambling to bring in more money.
It's a crazy story. That's why I looked it up. I just looked up Dr. Money, who wrote a book. Here is the link from Amazon. There are reviews from 2007 and 2012. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Woman-Boy-Girl-Conception/dp/1568218125
I couldn't find anything on Dr. Diamond Gender. It appears the person who wrote the Slate article wrote a book about this guy, called As Nature Made Him. It seems to be a true story. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060192119/qid=1086286749/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-5621446-7592165?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846
Someone likely got a hold of your card data. This can happen in several ways. Thieves put "skimmers" on ATMs for just this purpose, or it could be from a waitress that has a hand-held skimmer, who swipes each card she handles when the customer is out of sight. If your card has the sideways wifi-looking symbol on the back, it broadcasts its information wirelessly as well. This information can be zapped out of the air with relative ease. Certain phones that have NFC chips and/or the appropriate technology (nothing special), can download an app that sniffs CC info of cards that are within 6 inches or so of it (better technology can go further; while the theoretical limit for this technology on cards was supposed to be like 36 inches at Best, I saw a DefCON presentation where they were able to read card info from like a quarter mile with homemade equipment). All of this aside, it is Also extremely likely that your CC info was purchased online, from someone who hacked into a (usually) small mom/pops type place that is incorrectly handling CC info (it is technically illegal for them to store/maintain this info, at least unencrypted I know it is.... but it still happens a lot... usually when people use some "small business starter pro!!" software they don't know how to use).
Lastly, I'd like to point out that if I had to guess, the owner of that store is in on this ring of thieves. That, or the thief made a copy of your card and went there, a place where they don't really pay attention. The thief would want to make a clone of your card and do a test purchase before selling it, or before trying it at a large establishment (or simply taking the time to make his fake look Real, which costs him like 30$ of materials etc if he wants one that can pass inspection) (mind you the Tools/Machines costs 100s and 1000s of dollars... just once he's already got those, I'm averaging between 20-30$ of materials (metallic paint, hologram, other ink, etc, etc)).
Source: Read and recommend this book for you to read. Kingpin
I highly, highly recommend a hilarious book, The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, based on the true story of a Hungarian bank robber just after the fall of communism. It wonderfully captures life in Central Europe at that time. And this scene could have been taken straight from the book. One of the funniest books I've ever read, and even more remarkable because it's all true: http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731
straight out of The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Read up. https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-Behind/dp/1591848148
> "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick
Yes, fantastic book. I actually contracted Kevin (and his firm) to pen test my payment device, as much for the knowledge as for the celebrity tickles it sent up my spine.
Also I would recommend Kingpin
Hmm. True crime isn't often known for being well written. But check out Public Enemies by Bryan Burroughs, Columbine by Dave Cullen, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, and of course, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. T.J. English has written some supposedly good stuff, and (being from Boston) I can recommend some good books on Whitey Bulger, including Brutal, Black Mass and Rat Bastards.
If you're looking for stuff on actual murderers, it's going to be a little harder. Most of that stuff is crap. I guess the old standbys are Helter Skelter, The Stranger Beside Me, and BTK.
i wish I still had my copy it's worth $100. Here's Amazon reviews if you don't believe me. Again, nothing in this subreddit can compare to what he did.
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Truth-Autobiography-Serial-Killer/dp/0963242202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483103397&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=final+truth#customerReviews
Ice Man - book about Richard Kuklinski, mafia hit man.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ice-Man-Confessions-Contract/dp/0312938845/ref=la_B001H6QXF2_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342847845&amp;sr=1-1
Yes, anyone who believes otherwise should read this
Some were stolen so as to have sex on the moon. http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0307741346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342509583&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=sex+on+the+moon
http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Foul-First-Person-Account-Scandal/dp/061536263X
Only Living Witness
The Stranger Beside Me
This one https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696
I agree with you, and if you want some proof on this topic through actual life, I recommend you read Colapinto's memoir As Nature Made Him. It follows the life of David Reimer, the victim of a terrible circumcision accident at 18 months, during which his entire penis was burned off. He was raised as a woman, but never felt right. In short, his entire life was ruined by the perusing of his femininity by doctors. Every aspect of his youth is miserable, due to him knowing he was a male, but being told he was a female. Ultimately, he was told he was a man, at which he immediately ceased all hormonal therapy (which he did not know he was on) and lived out the rest of his life as a woman, as happily as one can be. He got married and had a few children (not his biological children). Unfortunately, he killed himself a few years ago after a fight with his wife.
The book is brilliant. If you find this topic interesting, I highly suggest you read it. Was an NY Times best seller.
John Colapinto: As Nature Made Him
How about you read this book, and then live with a mother going through that trauma untreated for 28 years and get back to me. http://www.amazon.com/The-Girls-Who-Went-Away/dp/0143038974
http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-DecadesBefore/dp/0143038974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269575656&amp;sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/When-Abortion-Was-Crime-1867-1973/dp/0520216571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269575719&amp;sr=1-1
These will give you a lot of reference to the pre-Roe movement. As for more recent history, other folks can probably help you more than I can.
Who's got book recommendations? Here are mine:
There have been a lot of books that have greatly influenced me -- Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and Conrad's Heart of Darkness come to mind, as well as Kafka's Metamorphosis (on the novella side). But there's only one book I've read that really felt like an arrow striking my heart: As Nature Made Him, by John Colapinto. In short, it's a non-fiction work about a boy whose parents decide -- after a botched circumcision -- to raise him as a girl. I normally despise non-fiction, but I couldn't put it down. And I'll admit, I cried upon finishing it. It's utterly heartbreaking, especially with the knowledge that the subject of the book -- a man who grew up a mere ten miles away from me -- killed himself after the book was published (an act unrelated to the release of the book, thank goodness).
Whether you've never had an opinion on gender identity or nature vs. nurture or you've argued it until you're blue in the face, this book is profoundly affecting.
With only my phone on me, I'm just going to list out some of the non-fiction I've enjoyed on my commute recently.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty Great reading for the morbidly inclined.
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film - Patton Oswalt I would only recommend this book for true cinema fans. It's enjoyable if you get the references and are also a procrastinating creative.
God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi - John Safran sort of reminds me of Jon Ronson. Good true crime, fish out of water stuff.
Yes Please - Amy Poehler Great advice, hilarious. Get it on audiobook.
Carsick - John Waters John waters being John Waters.
Manson - Jeff Guinn A super fascinating breakdown of the 1960s, and the environment that held Manson is much is a biography. I'm really excited to read his new book his writing about Jim Jones and the 1970's.
Currently on Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon, very excited about it.
Read this book, the NBA has been corrupt for years, the ref could accurately predict the outcome of a game based only on the knowledge of who the refs were going to be:
http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Foul-First-Person-Account-Scandal/dp/061536263X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1368591468&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=nba+referee+book
There is actually a book written by a former TIME reporter in this man's defense. Its called Damned to Eternity: The Story of the Man Who They Said Caused the Flood.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0306815273?pc_redir=1405231807&amp;robot_redir=1
Yes, it's improving, but it's not all fixed yet, hence the two frauds on my accounts within the past year. One was an actual duplicated card, complete with CCV number and magnetic stripe.
A great book on how bad things have been, up until chip cards finally started getting market acceptance, is Kingpin, about a hacker who stole thousands of credit cards, mostly from stored data. Vendors often are not in legal compliance. Restaurants were especially bad.
Debit cards didn't escape either; one year banks absorbed $2 billion in debit card fraud. They'd introduced a secret PIN in the magnetic stripe, to fend off phishing attacks, and then just didn't bother checking it.
In terms of security, crypto on a hardware wallet is light years beyond anything in mainstream finance. Even our exchanges have better security than they do; my online stock broker and my credit union offer no 2FA at all.
I'm actually currently reading a book about his story called Sex on the moon.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0385533926
I don't use Dropbox and do not intend to disparage Dropbox by stating a recent book about hackers and those who hound them seems to indicate Dropbox is not as secure as some my think. Your mileage may vary.
The Ice Man - Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Man-Confessions-Contract-Killer/dp/0312938845
Its horrible! Read the book instead, so much better; http://www.amazon.com/The-Ice-Man-Confessions-Contract/dp/0312938845
>You have literally no evidence to back this up
There's an entire book written by a former referee that did prison time for betting on games. He gives specific examples page after page.
http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0