Just finished The Handmaid's Tale and, wow, it's like an episode of Earth's Biggest Dysfunctional Families: Dystopian Edition. 📖🌍💣 Trust me, after reading this, you'll WANT to live in a world invaded by Ricks. #BookRecommendation #EssentialReading #RickSanchezApproved #Gileadwho #BitBook

“We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves.”

Timothy Snyder on what it means that an FBI New York agent allegedly betrayed his mission. #essentialreading #McGonigal #FBI #Trump #Russia

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-specter-of-2016?r=tla0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

RT @FionaBike@twitter.com

Fascinating research into the psychology of cultural attitudes to driving.

@walksydney1@twitter.com
#EssentialReading https://twitter.com/ianwalker/status/1615248156186247169

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FionaBike/status/1615423989345824770

#TheRoadToUnfreedom

#Books #GreatReads
#TimothySnyder #EssentialReading

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/life-as-a-lie?r=65xp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I’m not finishing another book tonight, so I can safely now say that in 2022 I finished only 60 books.

I will put up my full list on my blog soon, but I want to give a New Year’s Eve shoutout to @keribla whose beautifully written and gripping memoir Corrections in Ink was one of the book highlights of my year.

It is the kind of read that can fundamentally change your perception of what we call the “criminal justice system” in the US.

#essentialReading #memoir

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

@hugh

"(...) people who have been targets for harrassment by fascist trolls for most of their lives built in protections against unwanted attention

(...) more agency to users that pundits claim make #Mastodon "too complicated".

(...) No consideration is given to why the norms and affordances of Mastodon and the broader #fediverse exist, and whether the actor they are designed to protect against might be you. (...)”

#EssentialReading #StartHere #NewHere

Major eye opener right here! It’s quite fascinating to learn about the historic roots of the general aversion to reality that seems to permeate American society. #Fantasyland #Pseudoscience #SnakeOil #Grifting #ExtraordinaryClaims #WildBeliefs #Book #EssentialReading #CurrentlyReading #ReadingList #Books

@skrishna @beebrookshire Wow, this is #EssentialReading for Mastodon.

#EssentialReading: Ezra Klein's carefully considered response to Sam Harris & Charles Murray & the notion that genetics is the determining factor in IQ. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/15695060/sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq-forbidden-knowledge-podcast-bell-curve?__twitter_impression=true