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projectgus

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Experimenting with moving my "want to read" list here.

With luck, this will encourage me to read more regularly - to balance the ambitious addition of books to said reading list against my recent reading habits...

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@technicat That's interesting, I also read this around 2018 and my recollection is that it lowered my opinion of him a lot at the time - between the discussions of how he treats his employees (especially his assistant, that story was messed up) and the other general controversies, taking credit for others' work, etc.

Of course, it's still a long way from reading "this guy is an overrated asshole" to the truth of "this guy is a white nationalist accelerationist megalomaniacal asshole", but I'd offer there's some split between: there are signs even in a light-touch bio like this, there's bad stuff that no doubt was kept under wraps at the time, and at some point around 2020 he does seem to have become more extreme in his views (or gone fully "mask off", excuse the pun.)

"Ludicrous" by Edward Neidemeyer is the book that really burst the bubble of …