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Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

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On August 11, 2022, a Trump supporter, outraged by the search at Mar-a-Lago, wielded an AR-15 assault weapon and attempted to storm the FBI field office in Cincinnati; he was killed in a confrontation with law enforcement. Later, a Tennessee man who had been charged in the storming of the Capitol on January 6 was indicted in a plot to kill the FBI agents who had arrested him and to attack the FBI field office in Knoxville. On October 28, 2022, David DePape, whose social media showed support for a range of right-wing causes, broke into the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, demanding “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?”—a cry that was also made by the rioters inside the Capitol on January 6. DePape found only her husband, Paul, and attacked him with a hammer. The vipers of talk radio, and the internet, displayed as much venom as ever.

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Social media, either through major platforms like Facebook or specialized sites like 4chan, allowed for instant connections with potential allies. (One study sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security found that social media was used in 90 percent of extremist plots in the United States.) More than any other reason, the internet accounts for the difference between McVeigh’s lonely crusade and the thousands who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. * * * In the fall of 1992, McVeigh finally moved out of his father’s house and into a nearby apartment. His first purchase was a deluxe portable Radio Shack radio, which could receive ten shortwave bands, but only when the sun was down and reception was better. McVeigh became a devoted listener to William Cooper, a self-styled “patriot,” whose program The Hour of Our Time, was broadcast out of his home in rural Arizona.

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By the fall of 1994, the plan for the bombing had a momentum of its own, and that was ultimately the most important reason for it; it was not the result of strategic or tactical thinking but rather an expression of rage. In a similar way, it may be that relatively few of the hundreds of people who invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021, actually thought that they would overturn the election. As with McVeigh, the rage—as much as the result—was the point. * * * Terry, Marife, their daughter, Nicole, and Tim were now all living under one small roof in Marion, Kansas. That proximity created an immediate complication.

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro

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Or does it come from the left-wing authoritarians in government, who broadly disdain the Constitution and believe in the implementation of their worldview from the top down? If there is a threat to our most basic liberties, whom should we most fear: the dumbasses in clown suits invading the Capitol on January 6? Donald Trump, a man who talked like an authoritarian but did not actually govern as one? Or the monolithic leftists who dominate the top echelons of nearly every powerful institution in American society, and who frequently use their power to silence their opposition? LIFE UNDER LEFT-WING SOCIAL AUTHORITARIANISM Deep down, Americans know the answer to this question.

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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin

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To me, it was his core business model and paramount personal commitment while in office. Indeed, if I am right about that, it may have been the exact reason that he fought so hard to stay in office and therefore the possible ultimate motivation both for the Ukraine shakedown and for the explosive insurrectionary violence that overran us on Capitol Hill on January 6. From the outside at least, it looked as though he needed to be in the White House to keep all the money flowing while holding the criminal prosecutors at bay. My conviction that Trump should have been impeached long before the Ukraine shakedown ever happened created a pretty large distance between me and the 2019 Ukraine investigation, which was centered in the Intelligence Committee and quarterbacked by its very effective chairman, Adam Schiff.

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Whether I was at a meeting on the Hill, crossing from the House side to the Senate side, or taking a hike in Rock Creek Park or Northwest Branch with family and friends, they had scoped it out beforehand and walked quietly at a distance, watching for anything untoward. I was meeting them, of course, at a tough time for the Capitol Police force. More than 140 officers had just been injured on January 6. Officer Brian Sicknick had died a day after being brutally assaulted with bear mace and the nasty chemical concoctions that turned the west front of the Capitol into what the cops that day were calling “the gas chamber.” The whole force was physically exhausted, mentally drained, and thoroughly traumatized.

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It was, of course, gory and sickening to watch organized groups of hoodlums, racists, and neofascists pummeling, spearing, and torturing Capitol Police and MPD officers. But in order to illuminate the real meaning of this madness, it was necessary to broaden and extend the time frame, to track Trump’s cultivation of such violent political extremism during his time in office. The enormous violence that shook the Capitol on January 6 was political in nature, unlike, for example, a barroom brawl, a sexual assault, or a Mob hit against a rival criminal gang. It was political in a double sense: First, it had the political quality of dividing the social world between “friend and enemy,” which has been the organizing principle of reactionary political thought for centuries, as best expressed in the writings of political theorist and jurist Carl Schmitt.

The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

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A friend said that it feels sometimes now as if we are bobbing in the sea, surrounded by sharks, but I misheard. I thought he said “sharps.” I pictured myself pulled by the undertow into deep water, jagged with needles and knives and razors and broken glass—like that of the window through which Ashli Babbitt, a subject of this book’s title essay, attempted to climb when she invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Babbitt, shot for her trouble, was a fool who pursued her own death. And yet, many of us might say the same of ourselves. The peril in which the country finds itself now is not natural; it is in the broadest sense of our own American making. My friend offered another metaphor: “When you’re in the trough, it’s hard to see the crest of the next wave.”

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* * * 1 Rittenhouse was acquitted, after which Trump invited him and his mother to Mar-a-Lago. III Goodnight, Irene On Survival ›‹ › 8 ‹ The Undertow Although no one believed in civil war, the air reeked of it . . . —Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, recalling 1860 1. The Capitol, January 6, 2021 We watched her die before we knew her name. We watched almost in real time or soon after, her death looped and memed before the fight for the Capitol was over. A shaky video gives us a crowd throbbing against two wooden, windowed doors, one reinforced glass pane spiderwebbing, three Capitol police officers, oddly passive, standing between the crowd and members of Congress on the other side.

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Victor was there, too, and that plus the 90-up heat on the sunblasted concrete of the plaza, plus a promise of disruption from local Antifa may have explained the low civilian turnout. An old White man in cowboy boots and cowboy hat amened in the front row and another, who boasted he was at the Capitol on January 6, patrolled on a Segway, trailing a flapping Old Glory. Most of the crowd huddled back in the shade, propping up flags. A Second Amendment activist ranted against Critical Race Theory. The connection to Ashli was vague. An indicted January 6 insurrectionist, Jorge Riley, said schools are making our kids gay.

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson

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Crowder 1963–2005 Rest in peace CONTENTS AUTHOR’S NOTE PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX AUTHOR’S NOTE This book documents a battle by victims’ families against deluded people and profiteers who denied the December 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed twenty first graders and six educators. The book traces a nearly ten-year effort pioneered by Leonard Pozner, whose six-year-old son, Noah, died at Sandy Hook, to sound the alarm about the growing threat posed by viral lies and false conspiracy narratives, a cultural phenomenon that eventually brought a mob to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. These families’ saga, and its societal implications and potential solutions, rests on more than four hundred interviews, including with Sandy Hook survivors, first responders, government officials, lawyers, researchers, political scientists, psychologists, journalists, conspiracists, and others, conducted over three years.

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Jones brought on his friend Stewart Rhodes, a former Ron Paul staffer and founder of the Oath Keepers, an antigovernment militia group whose members, many of them veterans or former law enforcement officers, pledge never to obey a list of ten imaginary “orders,” topped by surrendering their guns.[6] Not many Americans had heard of the Oath Keepers in 2012; Rhodes had founded it only three years earlier. Since then the group has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s most dangerous far-right extremist groups. Convinced that the presidential election was “stolen” from President Trump in 2020, the Oath Keepers participated in the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021.[7] “Can you imagine these women that went and shielded the children from bullets, what they would have done if they had a gun?” Jones asked Rhodes. “Yeah,” Rhodes replied. “They would have killed the guy—they would have put a bullet in his brain.” * * * — Roughly two million people listened to Jones’s radio show that week.

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He dove into a group of peaceful communist demonstrators and had to be rescued by police, and almost came to blows with liberal commentator Cenk Uygur when Jones and Stone crashed his show. One of Jones’s sidekicks, Joe Biggs, a hard-drinking, profane Army veteran, got into a fight with a flag-burning demonstrator, drawing a lawsuit. A few years later, Biggs would join the Proud Boys extremist group and help lead the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. “Every day it seemed like there was some type of stunt,” said Josh Owens, a former Infowars video editor who filmed Jones’s convention antics and uploaded them to YouTube. “Basically he saw the RNC as his playground.” On the evening of Thursday, July 21, Jones stood on the convention’s main floor, a VIP invitee to Trump’s nomination acceptance speech.

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias by Kevin Cook

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Berlin Wall, COVID-19, crisis actor, Donald Trump, Fall of the Berlin Wall, false flag, friendly fire, index card, Jones Act, no-fly zone, obamacare, Oklahoma City bombing, Peoples Temple, QAnon, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, wikimedia commons

AMERICAN MILITIAS celebrated the 2022 acquittal of Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, members of a group called the Wolverine Watchmen charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. The case fueled conspiracy theories, with the conservative website the Trumpet tying it to the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021: “It is not a stretch to think that the FBI could have orchestrated the violence on that day.” According to Republican candidate Garrett Soldano, a chiropractor hoping to unseat Whitmer in November 2022, “The FBI conceived a plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer and preyed on Michiganders.”

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(Associated Press) On April 19, 1993, tanks broke through the compound’s walls to “insert” tear gas. Shortly after noon, fire destroyed Mount Carmel. After the fire, the ATF flew its flag near the remains of the vault where women and children died. (Associated Press; center photo FBI) Alex Jones, who helped turn Waco from a town into a cause, exhorted Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. (Associated Press; patch courtesy of Dennis Wayne at Chiefmart.com) Clive Doyle spoke at a memorial service. Heather Jones (above right) and Sheila Martin (right) stayed in Waco, where Koresh still has followers. (Associated Press) Appendix ATF AGENTS KILLED ON FEBRUARY 28, 1993 Conway LeBleu, 30, New Orleans field office Todd McKeehan, 28, New Orleans field office Robert Williams, 26, New Orleans field office Steve Willis, 32, Houston field office BRANCH DAVIDIANS WHO DIED ON FEBRUARY 28, 1993 Winston Blake, 28, UK Peter Gent, 24, Australia Peter Hipsman, 28, US Perry Jones, 64, US Michael Schroeder, 29, US Jaydean Wendell, 34, US CHILDREN RELEASED DURING THE SIEGE February 28: Nehara Fagan, 4, UK Renae Fagan, 6, UK Angelica Sonobe, age 6, US Crystal Sonobe, 3, US March 1: Chrissy Mabb, 8, US Jacob Mabb, 9, US Scott Mabb, 11, US Jamie Martin, 10, US Bryan Schroeder, 2, US Joshua Sylvia, 7, US Jaunessa Wendell, 8, US Landon Wendell, 4, US Patron Wendell, 5 months, US Tamara Wendell, 5, US March 2: Daniel Martin, 6, US Kimberley Martin, 4, US Natalie Nobrega, 10, UK Joanne Vaega, 7, New Zealand March 3: Heather Jones, 9, US Kevin Jones, 11, US Mark Jones, 12, US BRANCH DAVIDIANS WHO SURVIVED THE FIRE ON APRIL 19, 1993 Renos Avraam, 32, UK Jaime Castillo, 24, US Graeme Craddock, 31, Australia Clive Doyle, 52, Australia Misty Ferguson, 17, US Derek Lovelock, 37, UK Ruth Riddle, 30, Canada David Thibodeau, 24, US Marjorie Thomas, 30, UK BRANCH DAVIDIANS WHO DIED ON APRIL 19, 1993 Chanel Andrade, 1, US Jennifer Andrade, 19, US Katherine Andrade, 24, US George Bennett, 35, US Susan Benta, 31, UK Mary Jean Borst, 49, US Pablo Cohen, 28, Israel Abedowalo Davies, 30, UK Shari Doyle, 18, US Beverly Elliot, 31, UK Doris Fagan, 60, UK Yvette Fagan, 30, UK Lisa Marie Farris, 24, US Raymond Friesen, 76, Canada Dayland Gent, 3, US Paige Gent, 1, US Aisha Gyarfas, 17, Australia (and her stillborn child) Sandra Hardial, 27, UK Diana Henry, 28, UK Paulina Henry, 24, UK Phillip Henry, 22, UK Stephen Henry, 26, UK Vanessa Henry, 19, UK Zilla Henry, 55, UK Novelette Hipsman, 36, Canada Floyd Houtman, 61, US Sherri Jewell, 43, US Chica Jones, 1, US David Jones, 38, US Little One Jones, 1, US Michele Jones, 18, US Serenity Jones, 4, US Bobbie Lane Koresh, 2, US Cyrus Koresh, 8, US David Koresh, 33, US Rachel Howell Koresh, 23, US Star Koresh, 6, US Jeffery Little, 32, US Nicole Gent Little, 24, Australia (and her stillborn child) Livingstone Malcolm, 26, UK Anita Martin, 18, US Diane Martin, 41, UK Lisa Martin, 13, US Sheila Martin, 15, US Wayne Martin, 42, US Wayne Martin Jr., 20, US Abigail Martinez, 11, US Audrey Martinez, 13, US Crystal Martinez, 3, US Isaiah Martinez, 4, US Joseph Martinez, 8, US Juliette Martinez, 30, US John-Mark McBean, 27, UK Bernadette Monbelly, 31, UK Melissa Morrison, 6, UK Rosemary Morrison, 29, UK Sonia Murray, 29, US Theresa Nobrega, 48, UK James Riddle, 32, US Rebecca Saipaia, 24, Philippines Mayanah Schneider, 2, US Steve Schneider, 43, US Judy Schneider-Koresh, 41, US Clifford Sellors, 33, UK Floracita Sonobe, 34, Philippines Scott Sonobe, 35, US Greg Summers, 28, US Startle Summers, 1, US Hollywood Sylvia, 1, US Lorraine Sylvia, 40, US Rachel Sylvia, 12, US Margarida Vaega, 47, New Zealand Neal Vaega, 37, New Zealand Mark Wendell, 40, US A diagram of Mount Carmel’s first floor.

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Noesner described Waco as a “self-inflicted wound” but not a “massacre” on the phone and in emails with me. Michael German spoke with me about his undercover work for the FBI. Catrina Doxsee shared her views and CSIS data on the militia movement with me by phone and email. Fi “Monkey King” Duong’s role in the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, and his talk of “Waco 2.0” were reported by Washington, DC’s Fox 5 television on July 6, 2021. Liverpool Hope University professor Newport explained his perspective on the fire in the journal Nova Religio (November 2009), which also included the opposing views of professors Wessinger and Wright.

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson

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Making things worse: a pillar of the world order—American democracy—was lurching toward chaos. CHAPTER 22 FLYING BLIND “West front of the Capitol! We’ve been flanked and we’ve lost the line!” Robert Glover, a Metropolitan Police officer who specialized in crowd control, cried out in panic on a radio transmission as insurrectionists stormed the west wing of the U.S. Capitol. It was 2:13 p.m. on January 6, 2021. A mob of Donald Trump supporters had breached the building, smashing windows and pouring into the seat of American democracy to reverse the election of Joe Biden. Rioters marched through the halls of the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” looking to vent their wrath against the vice president.

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.), 16, 36 Princeton University Global Systemic Risk project, 31 Process Driven Training (PDT), 95–97 Project on Security and Threats, University of Chicago, 34 Protégé Partners, 156 Putin, Vladimir, 32, 280, 285–86 Rajaratnam, Raj, 55 Rand, Ayn, 136 Raytheon Technologies, 168 Read, Rupert, 36, 183–89, 243–46, 252 Reagan, Ronald, 39, 45, 130, 136 Real World Risk Institute (RWRI), 166 Regression Analysis of Time Series (RATS), 227, 229 Relativity Media, 94 Renaissance Technologies, 96 Reuters, 204–5 RichterX website, 288 Rittel, Horst, 240 Romer, Paul, 230 Rothschild, Baron, 4 Roubini, Nouriel, 119 Rubin, Robert (Bob), 141–42, 218 Russell, Bertrand, 66 Russia, 78, 280 climate change and oil income of, 236, 237 hedge fund bet on debt of, 13, 60 invasion of Ukraine by, 223, 239, 272, 280, 285–86 methane release in permafrost areas of, 36 Taleb’s put options on bank debt of, 60 Russian roulette, risk in, 211 Rylance, Mark, 244 Ryskex, 259–60, 262, 265 Saba Capital, 176 Safe Haven (Spitznagel), 272, 273–75 SALT Conference, 139, 140 Samama, Frédéric, 224–25 Sanders, Bernie, 237 Sargent, Tom, 226 Scaramucci, Anthony, 139, 140 Schaeffer’s Investment Research, 111 Schatzker, Erik, 165 Schmalbach, Marcus, 259–67 Science & Finance firm, 85 September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, 35, 64, 71, 76–77, 103, 105, 144 Shehadi, Nadim, 149 Shirer, William, 53–54 Shriver, Lionel, 105 Simplify Asset Management, 277 Simplify Downside ETF, 276–77 Sims, Chris, 226 Singer, Peter, 283 Skin in the Game (Taleb), 135, 218–19, 286 SkyBridge Capital, 139 Smith, Adam, 44, 78 Smith, Noah, 217 Smith, Yves, 23 Smith, Zadie, 243, 244 Social Bubble Hypothesis, 179 Sontag, Susan, 73 Sornette, Didier, 83–92, 93, 131–33, 143, 157 Dragon Kings concept of, 31, 91–92, 132–33, 142, 144–46, 202, 205, 288 risk-tempting trait of, 83, 85, 93, 177 Soros, George, 58, 65, 69 Sparks, Richard, 111 Spinks, Lynwood, 94 Spitznagel, Amy, 50, 93, 135 Spitznagel, Eric, 41 Spitznagel, Mark CBOT membership and trading done by, 12, 44–49, 137 Empirica’s launch by, 12, 13, 61–62, 65 Empirica’s trading strategy and, 13, 38, 66–68, 113, 134, 143 experience of organized chaos of trading, during his first visit to CBOT, 39–40 family background and education of, 12, 40–42, 44 global market response to Covid-19 spread and, 11–12, 14–15 learnings about trading from Klipp at CBOT, 40, 42–44, 47, 48, 50, 110, 137 trading strategy of, 136 Statista, 32 Stigler, George, 226 Stiglitz, Joseph, 236 Stockholm Resilience Centre, 215–16 Summers, Larry, 140–42 Sussman, Donald, 61, 64, 65, 68 Sutherland, Rory, 216 Systemic Risk Masterclass webcast, 267 “Systemic Risk” memo (Taleb, Bar-Yam, and Norman), 20–23, 164 Tainter, Joseph, 202–3 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas background of, 12–13 Black Swan concept extensions by, 16 Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading experience of, 56–58, 70 concerns about the spread of Covid-19 and, 17–19, 162–63 decision to leave Empirica by, 12, 81–82, 99 Empirica’s launch and naming by, 13, 61–62, 65 Empirica’s trading strategy and, 13, 38, 66–68, 77, 103, 113, 143 Gray Swans and, 27, 31, 105, 114, 145–46 pandemics research by, 16, 19–20 panic now—panic early phrase used by, 21 role of at Universa, 13–14, 112–13, 129, 140, 271 success of, 114–15 “Systemic Risk” memo of, 20–23, 164 Universa investments of, 13, 16, 98, 120, 129, 190 Tepper, David, 140, 146 Tesla, 19, 177–78, 219–20, 238–39, 247, 261 Tetlock, Philip, 106 Thaler, Richard, 124 Thomson, John, 263, 264 Thunberg, Greta, 184–85, 186, 188, 225 Tillerson, Rex, 240 time preferences, 136 Tooze, Adam, 35 Tournant, Greg, 168–69 Townsend, Jessica, 244 Trump, Donald Ackman’s Covid-19 warning to, 5, 7 attack on the Capitol (January 6, 2021) and, 251 as a Black Swan event, 105 climate threat and, 186 Covid-19 response of, 17, 18–19, 23, 165, 167 Doomsday Clock response to election loss of, 235 economic conditions and rise of, 35, 122 election of, 151, 280 Goldstone and Turchin’s forecast about election loss of, 30 political extremes and protest movements and, 32, 33–34 Turchin, Peter, 29–30 Tversky, Amos, 78, 79 Twitter, 175, 178, 216, 282 Ukraine Russian invasion of, 223, 239, 272, 280, 285–86 Taleb’s visit to, 279–80 United Nations, 18, 204, 206, 251, 281 U.S.

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball

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Daniel Bates, ‘EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein’s access to the Clinton White House laid bare’, www.dailymail.co.uk, 2 December 2021. 5. There are many accounts of such incidents, but this is a good starting point: Ted Mann, Dustin Volz, Lindsay Wise and Chad Day, ‘Lawmakers Were Feet and Seconds Away from Confrontation With the Mob in the Capitol’, www.wsj.com, 12 January 2021. 6. More background on these protests here: Ewan Palmer, ‘Global March 20 Anti-Vaccine Protests Promoted by QAnon-Linked Groups’, www.newsweek.com, 16 March 2021, and in this thread: https://twitter.com/VeraMBergen/status/1419079819959029763 7. Joe Ondrak and Jordan Wildon, ‘EXCLUSIVE: Worldwide Anti-Lockdown Protests Organized by German Cell’, www.logically.ai, 14 May 2020. 8.

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

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His persistence in challenging the vote of the state electors of early December and his claims that he had actually won “in a landslide” soon proved increasingly polarizing and counterproductive to his own cause. The constant promises to supporters of a new election or rejection of the November 3 decision sapped some of the lame-duck Trump’s already eroding popularity and diminished sympathy for his grievances. And when a splinter group from an early Trump rally stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, while Congress was in session adjudicating the vote of the electors, the ensuing violence—five people died in the chaos, one violently—ended the Trump presidency on a sour note. Yet even Trump’s tumultuous final days of departure from office soon proved quite different from what was reported at the time.

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The Right answered that the Left had for months contextualized the mayhem of Antifa and BLM and therefore should not be surprised when others were emboldened to follow their violent example. The public was left with the general impression that, for political reasons, violence in the streets was being condoned and perpetrators not held to account for their illegal actions.19 In reaction to the storming of the Capitol on January 6 by a faction of Trump supporters, the 2020 defeat of Trump, the impending inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, and the loss of Republican control of the Senate on January 5 in the two special elections in Georgia, the Left became emboldened. One of the most disturbing threats to free expression in modern American history ensued.

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill

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Donald Trump’s presidency was both a product and a symptom of the set of complex problems intertwined beneath the surface of our polity. If we fail to fix our ailing society by not addressing them and providing opportunity for all, another American president, just like Vladimir Putin, might decide to stay in power indefinitely. And the next insurrectionary force that invades the U.S. Capitol Building might be better prepared than the January 6, 2021, mob. They might just manage to hold it. Part I The Coal House 1 “Call the United Nations” It wasn’t until the late 1970s, when I was thirteen, that I became aware that there was a working class and that I was in it. I was on a school exchange to Tübingen, Germany, sponsored by the education authority of my regional government, Durham County Council.

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In the first, the president was caught behind the scenes trying to use foreign actors to harm a primary political opponent. In the second, the whole country watched him openly incite domestic actors to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump had long made it clear that he was prepared to use every lever at his disposal as president. The storming of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, by a mob fired up by the president was just one episode in a long series of provocative moves to bend the system to his will. It was, in its essence, the culmination of a slow-motion coup attempt, perpetrated by Trump to keep himself in power even if he actually lost the election.

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His two impeachment trials were a stark warning of how much trouble the United States was in socially and politically, and of the serious repercussions for its national security. In April 2021, a study by Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago, was widely featured and reported in the American press. Professor Pape examined the backgrounds of 377 Americans who were arrested after storming the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. One critical factor stood out. They were mostly from counties in states where the non-­Hispanic white population had sharply declined relative to minorities. The people arrested were predominantly white and male (95 percent and 85 percent, respectively) and clearly uncomfortable with the steady diversification of American society and their own communities.

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

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Gionet “informed me that he was a ‘influencer’ and had a large following on social media,” according to a police report. By then, Gionet had been subject to the evils that had been denounced at Trump’s social media summit. He’d been deplatformed—thrown off Twitter and Twitch—and had his YouTube videos demonetized. So he was streaming to DLive, a blockchain-based service, when he entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He strode around like he owned the place. “America First is inevitable! Fuck globalists, let’s go!” he yelled. At one point he advised other rioters not to damage anything; at another he yelled at a police officer that he was a “fucking oathbreaker, you piece of shit.” Gionet’s excitement grew as he watched the number of viewers to his livestream rise.

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Go to note reference in text It was easy to relate: Tasneem Nashrulla, “We Blew Up a Watermelon and Everyone Lost Their Freaking Minds,” BuzzFeed News, April 8, 2016, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/we-blew-up-a-watermelon-and-everyone-lost-their-freaking-min. Go to note reference in text His followers excitedly replied: Hannah Gais (@hannahgais), “users on Tim Gionet’s, aka Baked Alaska, live stream on DLive are calling to give lawmakers the ‘rope’ and to ‘hang all the congressmen’ on DLive while he’s streaming inside the Capitol building,” Twitter, January 6, 2021, 3:15 p.m., https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/1346913339000156162?lang=en. Go to note reference in text The federal court in Washington, DC: United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Government’s Sentencing Memo, July 14, 2021, https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/b30cc701-33df-4bc8-a99c-0043194d607b/note/9ba32abe-1765-459e-b51f-7aa8b725e7a6..

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik Deboer

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, Bernie Sanders, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, centre right, collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, data science, David Brooks, defund the police, deindustrialization, delayed gratification, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, effective altruism, false flag, Ferguson, Missouri, George Floyd, global pandemic, helicopter parent, income inequality, lockdown, obamacare, Occupy movement, open immigration, post-materialism, profit motive, QAnon, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, social distancing, TikTok, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, We are the 99%, working poor, zero-sum game

The polls had underrated Trump’s chances again, perhaps due to a refusal of Trump voters to answer their phones when pollsters called. Trump, infamously, refused to concede, called the election stolen before many of the states had even finished counting, and eventually whipped up the riot at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. That was the year that was 2020: a year of pandemic, a year of protest, a year of tension and turmoil, a year when the establishment of American politics regained the presidency, replacing the serial instability and alleged petty corruption of the Trump administration with Joe Biden’s uninspiring, incrementalist normalcy.

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market by Nicholas Wapshott

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(Hank), 274, 275–76, 341 payroll withholding tax, 32–33 Pechman, Joseph, 207, 332 Pelosi, Nancy, 293 Pence, Mike, 293 Peterson, Pete, 145–46, 325 Phelps, Edmund, 114–15, 321 Phillips Curve, 111–12, 114–15, 121, 170, 178, 267, 298 Phillips, William, 111, 114, 321 Pigou, Arthur, 28–29, 38, 308 Pinochet, Augusto, 159–61, 168, 169, 170, 327 Poole, William, 213, 333 postwar consensus politics in Britain, 216, 232, 234, 236 Powell, Enoch, 237–38, 336 President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board (PEPAB), 201, 249 Prices and Production (Hayek), 38, 102 prime rate, Federal Reserve, 194–95 Principles and Rules in Modern Fiscal Policy (Samuelson), 20–21, 23 Profumo, John, 301 progressive income tax, 47 propensity to consume, 19, 100, 133 property rights, 80 Protest at Capitol, January 6, 2021, 293–94 Pure Theory of Capital, The (Hayek), 311 quantitative easing (QE), 263, 280–81, 324 quantity theory of money development by Chicago economists, 99–100 Friedman on, 45, 95, 98–100, 101–3, 104–5, 107 Keynes on, 63, 94, 96–97, 98, 106 Samuelson on, 99–100, 102, 125–26, 132–33 see also monetarism “Quantity Theory of Money, The” (Friedman), 98–99 Rand, Ayn, 81, 82, 260, 317, 338 “rational expectations,” 96, 115, 180–81, 278, 281 Reaganomics, 200–201, 249, 250, 251 Reagan, Ronald arms race with Soviet Union, 209–10, 215 deficit spending, 210, 333 Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, 333 education and early career, 199–200, 201 election in 1980, 199 federal bailouts backed by, 201 first inaugural address, 293 humor, 56 import quotas condoned by, 201 monetary policy, 201–2 opposition to communist tyranny, 209–10, 215, 216 Queen Elizabeth and, 230 Soviet Union collapse and, 214–15 supply-side economics, 204–6 tax cuts, 208, 209–10, 333 tax increases, 210 Tax Reform Act of 1986, 333 Volcker supported by, 202, 212 “Republican Revolution,” 251, 253 “Revealed Preference” theory, 163 “Right Approach to the Economy, The” (Joseph), 239 Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 35–36, 66–68, 87, 215, 222, 237, 334 Robbins, Lionel, 41, 306 Robertson, Dennis, 39, 41, 310 Robinson, Austin, 39 Robinson, (Edward) Austin, 41, 310 Robinson, Joan, 39, 40, 41, 310 Rockefeller, Nelson, 51, 138, 312 “Role of Monetary Targets in an Age of Inflation, The” (Volcker), 184–85 Romney, Mitt, 49, 311–12, 318 Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America by Charles Murray

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Events since the summer of 2020 make me think it is too late to talk about if Whites adopt identity politics. Many already have. That’s the parsimonious way to interpret the red-blue divisions over wearing masks, the widespread belief in red states that the 2020 election was stolen, and the rage that resulted in the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This is all evidence that the federal government has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of many Whites. If that reaction spreads, the continued ability of the federal government to enforce its edicts in the reddest portions of the nation will be thrown into question. The prospect of legal secession may be remote, but the prospect of reduced governability from Washington is not.

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O'Neil

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See also fat shame the beauty, anti-aging, and wellness industries, 5–6, 78–81, 82–88 body-editing photo apps, 107 choice/responsibility/failure tropes and, 81–83 Lysol douches and feminine hygiene shame, 77–78, 79–81 prevalence of, 82–83 social media’s health impacts on young women, 105–7 Bodytune, 107 Boston Globe, 44 Bremer, Arthur, 132 British India: Gandhi’s Salt March, 173–76 Buhari, Muhammadu, 171–72, 173 Buolamwini, Joy, 186 C cancel culture, 114–16 Confederate flag and statue removals, 118 Amy Cooper’s firing, 110 the Harper’s letter’s defense of free speech, 128–31 Karens and Karen shaming, 109–14, 116 Capitol attack (January 6, 2021), 101 celibacy, 135, 140. See also incel community Center for Employment Opportunities, Inc. (CEO), 68–73 Central Park birdwatching incident, 109–11 Chauvin, Derek, 111 children and teenagers: body image anxiety among teenage girls, 82–83, 106–7 child poverty, 67 dealing with our own children, 148–49, 213 dieting/fat shaming and, 34–35 impacts of parental drug addiction, 40–41 the marshmallow experiment, 74–75 as organizers of punching-up campaigns, 179–81 teens as targets of the wellness industry, 79–81 China, digital surveillance and public shaming in, 103 Chisholm, Shirley, 132 Choi, Kristen, 164 Churchill, Winston, 175 civil rights movements.

Generations: the Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

1960s counterculture, 2021 United States Capitol attack, affirmative action, airport security, An Inconvenient Truth, Bear Stearns, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, book scanning, coronavirus, COVID-19, crack epidemic, critical race theory, David Brooks, delayed gratification, desegregation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, feminist movement, Ferguson, Missouri, Ford Model T, future of work, gender pay gap, George Floyd, global pandemic, Gordon Gekko, green new deal, income inequality, Jeff Bezos, Joan Didion, job automation, Kitchen Debate, knowledge economy, labor-force participation, light touch regulation, lockdown, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, McJob, meta-analysis, microaggression, Neil Armstrong, new economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Peter Thiel, QAnon, Ralph Nader, remote working, ride hailing / ride sharing, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, superstar cities, tech baron, TED Talk, The Great Resignation, TikTok, too big to fail, Travis Kalanick, War on Poverty, We are the 99%, women in the workforce, World Values Survey, zero-sum game

Trust in others, in government, and in the press are three ingredients necessary for a functioning democracy. These data go a long way toward explaining the state of the country in 2020 and 2021: why misinformation spread so widely, why the results of the 2020 election were questioned, and why the U.S. Capitol was stormed on January 6, 2021. Without trust in the press or in government authorities, all these events became possible. Given that modern society is built on abstract concepts—government, money, corporations, taxes—people need to trust leaders and the press to agree on what is true and what is not. They no longer do, so facts are up for grabs.

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By September 2020, 44% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats said there would be at least “a little” justification for violence if the other party’s candidate won the election, including 20% who said there would be “a lot” or “a great deal” of justification. We all know what happened next: Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a violent attempt to keep him in the White House. How did things get this bad? There were many factors, but social media played a role. Before 2010, social media was mostly for posting pictures for friends. Then Facebook introduced the “like” button and Twitter premiered the “retweet” button, enabling social media companies to figure out what kept people clicking.

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

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The Battle of Birmingham. The March on Washington. The frontal assault at Selma. There were other echoes. The same antidemocratic faction of American life that opposed the Movement in the 1960s has been resurgent lately, not only seeking to restrict access to the vote but actually storming the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, as a presidential election was awaiting certification. The question facing us is whether those antidemocratic forces will once again defeat the forces of democracy as they have before. When laws are passed inhibiting the ability of people to vote, accompanied by laws limiting the ability of teachers to teach history, these are signs that we are once again threatened by the ancient and powerful forces of caste and oligarchy.

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Also see Bob Zellner, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement (NewSouth Books, 2008), 138, where Zellner writes that “Cobb and some of the SNCC people developed the idea of the Freedom School.” “I believe in states’ rights”: “Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Neshoba County Fair Speech,” Neshoba (Mississippi) Democrat, August 3, 1980. America’s demographics and values: For example, the people who assaulted the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, tended to be older, white males with jobs. “Those involved are, by and large, older and more professional than right-wing protesters we have surveyed in the past. They typically have no ties to existing right-wing groups. But like earlier protesters, they are 95 percent White and 85 percent male.”

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Board of Education ruling on school segregation Bryant, Charles Buber, Martin Bull Run, First Battle of Bunyan, John Burma Burner, Eric Burnham, Margaret Burton, Richard buses segregation of; see also Montgomery bus boycott see also Freedom Rides Bush, George W. Camden, Ala. capitalism Capitol attack of January 6 Carawan, Guy Carmichael, Stokely Black Power and death of Johnson’s speech and King and Lawson and Lewis and in Meredith march Moses and name change of nonviolence and SNCC and Carr, Johnnie Carson, Clayborne Carter, Hodding, II Carter, Jimmy Carty, Nicole Cash, Johnny Castile, Philando Castle, Doris Castro, Fidel Catsam, Derek CBS cell phones Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chafe, William Chalmers, David Chandler, Len Chaney, James Chappell, David Charron, Katherine Mellen Chauri Chaura incident Chenoweth, Erica Chenoweth, Karin Chestnut, J.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, anti-communist, anti-globalists, autism spectrum disorder, benefit corporation, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blood diamond, Boris Johnson, Boycotts of Israel, Cambridge Analytica, capitalist realism, ChatGPT, citizen journalism, Climategate, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, critical race theory, dark matter, deep learning, deepfake, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, false flag, feminist movement, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, global supply chain, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, hive mind, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet Archive, Jeffrey Epstein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lab leak, Lewis Mumford, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, mass incarceration, medical residency, military-industrial complex, moral panic, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, neurotypical, new economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, Peter Thiel, phenotype, profit motive, QAnon, QR code, Ralph Waldo Emerson, randomized controlled trial, Rosa Parks, Scientific racism, Scramble for Africa, shared worldview, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Slavoj Žižek, smart cities, social distancing, Steve Bannon, surveillance capitalism, tech billionaire, tech bro, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TikTok, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, trickle-down economics, union organizing, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wayback Machine, women in the workforce

Since Bannon is one of the primary pushers of the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election and was betrayed by Republican representatives and operatives who refused to overturn Biden’s victory, many of his listeners have been organizing to make sure that, next time, they will have thousands of foot soldiers in place, at the precinct level, who will refuse to certify another election win by the Democrats. And, of course, we’ve heard a lot about Bannon’s decision to defy a subpoena from the House probe into the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, for which he could well face jail time. All of that is important. But interfering in elections is only a fraction of what Bannon is up to. Just as important are the ways he is trying to actually win elections. The precinct strategy is the backup plan in case the winning strategy fails.

System Error by Rob Reich

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Aaron Swartz, AI winter, Airbnb, airport security, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, algorithmic bias, AlphaGo, AltaVista, artificial general intelligence, Automated Insights, autonomous vehicles, basic income, Ben Horowitz, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Big Tech, bitcoin, Blitzscaling, Cambridge Analytica, Cass Sunstein, clean water, cloud computing, computer vision, contact tracing, contact tracing app, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, data is the new oil, data science, decentralized internet, deep learning, deepfake, DeepMind, deplatforming, digital rights, disinformation, disruptive innovation, Donald Knuth, Donald Trump, driverless car, dual-use technology, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Filter Bubble, financial engineering, financial innovation, fulfillment center, future of work, gentrification, Geoffrey Hinton, George Floyd, gig economy, Goodhart's law, GPT-3, Hacker News, hockey-stick growth, income inequality, independent contractor, informal economy, information security, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Jim Simons, jimmy wales, job automation, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment, John Perry Barlow, Lean Startup, linear programming, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, minimum wage unemployment, Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay, move fast and break things, Myron Scholes, Network effects, Nick Bostrom, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, NP-complete, Oculus Rift, OpenAI, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, personalized medicine, Peter Thiel, Philippa Foot, premature optimization, profit motive, quantitative hedge fund, race to the bottom, randomized controlled trial, recommendation engine, Renaissance Technologies, Richard Thaler, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, scientific management, self-driving car, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, side project, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, software is eating the world, spectrum auction, speech recognition, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, strong AI, superintelligent machines, surveillance capitalism, Susan Wojcicki, tech billionaire, tech worker, techlash, technoutopianism, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telemarketer, The Future of Employment, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, traveling salesman, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, trolley problem, Turing test, two-sided market, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, ultimatum game, union organizing, universal basic income, washing machines reduced drudgery, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, When a measure becomes a target, winner-take-all economy, Y Combinator, you are the product

In four of five cases, the board overturned Facebook’s removal of content, signaling a will to challenge the platform and establish the authority of its external review. Then it agreed to hear a case with global repercussions: whether Facebook had been justified in indefinitely suspending Donald Trump’s account in the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In late spring 2021, it upheld Facebook’s decision to suspend Trump but rejected an indefinite ban. It gave Facebook six months to revisit the case and provide clear, public standards for any continuing ban. A Solomonic decision, it pleased no one and returned power to Facebook. An odd choice if the Oversight Board was intended to diminish the unchecked power of Facebook in deciding the boundaries of permissible speech on its platform.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

2021 United States Capitol attack, activist lawyer, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airport security, anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, Big Tech, Brexit referendum, business process, business process outsourcing, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, citizen journalism, cognitive bias, colonial rule, commoditize, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, delayed gratification, disinformation, Donald Trump, fake news, future of journalism, iterative process, James Bridle, Kevin Roose, lockdown, lone genius, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, Menlo Park, Milgram experiment, move fast and break things, natural language processing, Nelson Mandela, Network effects, obamacare, performance metric, QAnon, recommendation engine, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Steven Levy, surveillance capitalism, the medium is the message, The Wisdom of Crowds, TikTok, Twitter Arab Spring, work culture

An internal Facebook memo, “Political Influences on Content Policy,” stated that Kaplan’s group “regularly protects powerful constituencies,” starting with then candidate Donald Trump in 2015.46 This is partly why the company has consistently allowed politicians to lie, why it hid the truth, then blunted its announcement, about Russian disinformation and information operations, and why it allowed extremist groups to grow and seed metanarratives that led to its wake-up call: the violence on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump exhorted thousands of Americans to attack the US Capitol building in protest against his election loss. That was when Silicon Valley’s sins came home to roost.47 Recent surveys show that up to 40 percent of Americans still believe that Trump won, including 10 percent of Democrats.48 There are three assumptions implicit in everything Facebook says and does: first, that more information is better; second, that faster information is better; third, that the bad—lies, hate speech, conspiracy theories, disinformation, targeted attacks, information operations—should be tolerated in service of Facebook’s larger goals.

The Stolen Year by Anya Kamenetz

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, 2021 United States Capitol attack, Anthropocene, basic income, Black Lives Matter, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, Day of the Dead, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, East Village, emotional labour, ending welfare as we know it, epigenetics, food desert, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, helicopter parent, informal economy, inventory management, invisible hand, Kintsugi, labor-force participation, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, medical residency, Minecraft, moral panic, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Ponzi scheme, QAnon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, rent stabilization, risk tolerance, school choice, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Thorstein Veblen, TikTok, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, universal basic income, upwardly mobile, wages for housework, War on Poverty, white flight, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration

This is a vision of feminism that asks virtually nothing of the government. It whites out structural inequalities. It has little to say to women like the nannies who accompanied Sandberg on private jets, making her own work-life balance possible. Cooper and I happened to talk on the day of the Capitol insurrection, January 6, 2021. A man named Richard Barnett was putting his feet up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk, showing dangerous contempt for one of the most powerful women in government. This, after voters picked one of the oldest men ever to run for president over an entire field of highly qualified women in the primary, with some polling suggesting that voters believed other voters would never accept a woman in the top spot.

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Inconvenient Truth, Boris Johnson, carbon credits, carbon tax, Climategate, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, crisis actor, different worldview, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dunning–Kruger effect, en.wikipedia.org, Eratosthenes, experimental subject, fake news, false flag, green new deal, Higgs boson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Shellenberger, obamacare, off-the-grid, Paris climate accords, post-truth, precautionary principle, Recombinant DNA, Richard Feynman, scientific mainstream, selection bias, social distancing, sovereign wealth fund, stem cell, Steven Levy, the scientific method, University of East Anglia, Upton Sinclair, Virgin Galactic, WikiLeaks

It’s a matter of trusting not only science but also the guardians of scientific policy, some of whom have succumbed to political pressure under Trump. Whether liberal or conservative, one reality of the last four years is that much of this trust is gone. Despite Trump’s removal from office, Trumpism remains. The insurrrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, showed just how deeply a “fact-free” ideology has penetrated this country and the terrible consequences that can follow. What ended in violence in Washington, DC, began at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1953, where a handful of executives decided to “fight the science” by creating a disinformation campaign against facts that might hurt their business interests, perhaps unwittingly creating a blueprint for the future denial of any fact that did not fit someone’s preferred reality.

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order by Colin Kahl, Thomas Wright

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, biodiversity loss, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, British Empire, Carmen Reinhart, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, circular economy, citizen journalism, clean water, collapse of Lehman Brothers, colonial rule, contact tracing, contact tracing app, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, cuban missile crisis, deglobalization, digital rights, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, eurozone crisis, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, fear of failure, future of work, George Floyd, German hyperinflation, Gini coefficient, global pandemic, global supply chain, global value chain, income inequality, industrial robot, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, it's over 9,000, job automation, junk bonds, Kibera, lab leak, liberal world order, lockdown, low interest rates, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, megacity, mobile money, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, one-China policy, open borders, open economy, Paris climate accords, public intellectual, Ronald Reagan, social distancing, South China Sea, spice trade, statistical model, subprime mortgage crisis, W. E. B. Du Bois, World Values Survey, zoonotic diseases

Supreme Court, and in more than sixty lawsuits the Trump campaign unsuccessfully brought in courts around the country.110 But polls showed that a majority of Republican voters believed it.111 Bucking the long-standing American tradition of peacefully transferring power, Trump’s refusal to concede defeat led to the rockiest presidential transition in memory, capped by the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol—egged on by Trump himself—on January 6, 2021. But America’s democratic institutions ultimately held, and Biden was inaugurated on January 20. THE WHO AND CHINA, ACT II On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, at the WHO’s first press conference of the new year, director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that members of the international scientific team investigating the origins of COVID-19 had begun traveling from their home countries to China.

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-China relations withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal withdrawal from Universal Postal Union (UPU) World Health Organization and Xi Jinping and Trump, Frederick Uighur population Ukraine United Kingdom B.1.1.7 variant in Brexit COVID-19 response in COVID-19 vaccines and G7 and populist nationalism and United Nations COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs UN World Food Programme (WFP) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) U.S. Capitol siege (January 6, 2021) U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine nationalism vaccines. See COVID-19 vaccines Van Kerkhove, Maria variants B.1.351 B.1.17 P.1 614G Vietnam Vizcarra, Martín von der Leyen, Ursula Vučić, Aleksandar Wall Street crash of 1929 Wang, Yi Warren, Elizabeth Washington, George West Africa Wieler, Lothar Wilson, Edith Wilson, Woodrow awarded Nobel Peace Prize “Fourteen Points” Grayson, Cary T.

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg

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But what about the results of a presidential election that no authoritative source disputes but tens of millions of Americans believe ended differently? Facebook eventually took down many of the “STOP THE STEAL” groups proliferating on their platform,185 while Twitter, in just the forty-eight hours after Election Day, labeled 38 percent of President Trump’s tweets and retweets as misleading.186 After a pro-Trump mob rioted at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, seeking to halt the process certifying Joe Biden as president, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube suspended Trump from their platforms for inciting violence and violating their civic integrity policies. Apple and Google suspended Parler from their app stores, and Amazon kicked them off their popular cloud hosting service.

Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections by Mollie Hemingway

2021 United States Capitol attack, active measures, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, critical race theory, defund the police, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, fake news, George Floyd, global pandemic, illegal immigration, inventory management, lab leak, lockdown, machine readable, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, military-industrial complex, obamacare, Oculus Rift, Paris climate accords, Ponzi scheme, power law, QR code, race to the bottom, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, statistical model, tech billionaire, TikTok

The case was a long shot, but there was a difference between the Supreme Court’s explaining why it was wrong on the merits and simply refusing to even consider the arguments. That refusal, along with so many others at the federal and state level, went a long way to amping up the frustration of the losing side, culminating in a riot at the Capitol on January 6. At the same time the legal team was working its way through the courts, however unsuccessfully, the conversation among Trump advisors and supporters turned to fraud. Prominent Trump affiliates began hyping dramatic claims about problems with Dominion Voting Systems, one of the companies that supplied voting machines used in many states.

The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back by Jacob Ward

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, Abraham Wald, AI winter, Albert Einstein, Albert Michelson, Amazon Mechanical Turk, assortative mating, autonomous vehicles, availability heuristic, barriers to entry, Bayesian statistics, Benoit Mandelbrot, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Black Swan, blockchain, Broken windows theory, call centre, Cass Sunstein, cloud computing, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, data science, deep learning, Donald Trump, drone strike, endowment effect, George Akerlof, George Floyd, hindsight bias, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Jeffrey Epstein, license plate recognition, lockdown, longitudinal study, Lyft, mandelbrot fractal, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, natural language processing, non-fungible token, nudge unit, OpenAI, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, pattern recognition, QAnon, RAND corporation, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, selection bias, self-driving car, seminal paper, shareholder value, smart cities, social contagion, social distancing, Steven Levy, survivorship bias, TikTok, Turing test

Sacred values and group identity cause us to abandon our critical faculties. In Hamid’s experiments, MRI scans of people angry about a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad or about the occupation of Palestine showed that their cost-benefit centers weren’t lighting up. That would clearly have been true of anyone inside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. What better evidence that sacred values turn off our better judgment than people storming up the steps without a rational plan for what they’d do when they got inside, and who hadn’t considered that doing so, without hiding their faces, while livestreaming themselves on YouTube, meant felony charges awaited them on the far end?

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime by Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden

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Frank Beazley Bendersky, Eduard Benge, Terry Beverwijk Biden, Joe Binary Defense bitcoin tumblers Bitdefender BitPaymer Black Lives Matter BlackMatter Blanch, Beth Hall Blanch, Bobby Blanch, Rita BleepingComputer; DDoS attack on; founding of; Maze and; TeslaCrypt and block ciphers BloNo (Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area) BloodDolly Blount, Joseph BlueVoyant Blundell Brown, Nicky Bonczoszek, Noel Botezatu, Bogdan botnets Bottoms, Keisha Lance Boyce Technologies, Inc. Broward County Public Schools Bryce, Cade BTCWare Bugat Butterball Caesar, Julius Caesar cipher Campari Group Canon Capitol attack of January 6 Capture the Flag Cargile, Lisa Marie Carlin, John Carter, Stephen L. Carter, Todd Churchill, Winston ciphers CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) Cleveland Plain Dealer Clinton administration CLOP Cobalt Strike Cohen, Steven A. CoinVault Colonial Pipeline Company Comey, James CompuCom Compulink Information eXchange (CIX) Computer Crime Unit (CUU), Scotland Yard Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Computer Misuse Act Congionti, Mark Congionti, Victor Connelly, P.

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future by Orly Lobel

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Thousands of company documents Haugen turned over to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the European Parliament, and the media suggested that Facebook was aware that its algorithm allowed and encouraged the display of extreme dieting and self-harm posts to a teenage female audience. Haugen also asserted that Facebook should be held accountable for its contributions to the Capitol siege on January 6, 2021. Facebook responded by calling for more public regulation of digital content, rebranding itself as Meta, and, along with other technology kings, racing to shift us all into the metaverse—an embodied immersive experience of our digital lives. Policymakers are racing (although a racing legislature is something of an oxymoron) to respond and tighten oversight of digital spheres.

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, 9 dash line, AI winter, AlphaGo, artificial general intelligence, asset allocation, assortative mating, autonomous vehicles, bank run, banking crisis, basic income, Bear Stearns, Big Tech, bitcoin, Bletchley Park, blockchain, Boston Dynamics, Bretton Woods, British Empire, business cycle, business process, call centre, carbon tax, Carmen Reinhart, cashless society, central bank independence, collateralized debt obligation, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, credit crunch, crony capitalism, cryptocurrency, currency manipulation / currency intervention, currency peg, data is the new oil, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, debt deflation, decarbonisation, deep learning, DeepMind, deglobalization, Demis Hassabis, democratizing finance, Deng Xiaoping, disintermediation, Dogecoin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, energy security, energy transition, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, eurozone crisis, failed state, fake news, family office, fiat currency, financial deregulation, financial innovation, financial repression, fixed income, floating exchange rates, forward guidance, Fractional reserve banking, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, future of work, game design, geopolitical risk, George Santayana, Gini coefficient, global pandemic, global reserve currency, global supply chain, GPS: selective availability, green transition, Greensill Capital, Greenspan put, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, Hyman Minsky, income inequality, inflation targeting, initial coin offering, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, invention of movable type, Isaac Newton, job automation, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment, junk bonds, Kenneth Rogoff, knowledge worker, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, low skilled workers, low-wage service sector, M-Pesa, margin call, market bubble, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, means of production, meme stock, Michael Milken, middle-income trap, Mikhail Gorbachev, Minsky moment, Modern Monetary Theory, money market fund, money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange, moral hazard, mortgage debt, Mustafa Suleyman, Nash equilibrium, natural language processing, negative equity, Nick Bostrom, non-fungible token, non-tariff barriers, ocean acidification, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, paradox of thrift, pets.com, Phillips curve, planetary scale, Ponzi scheme, precariat, price mechanism, price stability, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ransomware, Ray Kurzweil, regulatory arbitrage, reserve currency, reshoring, Robert Shiller, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Satoshi Nakamoto, Savings and loan crisis, Second Machine Age, short selling, Silicon Valley, smart contracts, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, Stephen Hawking, TED Talk, The Great Moderation, the payments system, Thomas L Friedman, TikTok, too big to fail, Turing test, universal basic income, War on Poverty, warehouse robotics, Washington Consensus, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, working-age population, Yogi Berra, Yom Kippur War, zero-sum game, zoonotic diseases

The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller

2021 United States Capitol attack, Airbnb, An Inconvenient Truth, Bellingcat, Boris Johnson, coronavirus, COVID-19, disinformation, Donald Trump, fake it until you make it, false flag, friendly fire, game design, global pandemic, military-industrial complex, Ponzi scheme, private military company, rolling blackouts, Saturday Night Live, special economic zone, stakhanovite, wikimedia commons

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze

2021 United States Capitol attack, air freight, algorithmic trading, Anthropocene, Asian financial crisis, asset-backed security, Ayatollah Khomeini, bank run, banking crisis, Basel III, basic income, Ben Bernanke: helicopter money, Benchmark Capital, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, blue-collar work, Bob Geldof, bond market vigilante , Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, Brexit referendum, business cycle, business process, business process outsourcing, buy and hold, call centre, capital controls, central bank independence, centre right, clean water, cognitive dissonance, contact tracing, contact tracing app, coronavirus, COVID-19, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, cryptocurrency, currency manipulation / currency intervention, currency peg, currency risk, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, energy transition, eurozone crisis, facts on the ground, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, fear index, financial engineering, fixed income, floating exchange rates, friendly fire, George Floyd, gig economy, global pandemic, global supply chain, green new deal, high-speed rail, housing crisis, income inequality, inflation targeting, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeremy Corbyn, junk bonds, light touch regulation, lockdown, low interest rates, margin call, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, mass incarceration, megacity, megaproject, middle-income trap, Mikhail Gorbachev, Modern Monetary Theory, moral hazard, oil shale / tar sands, Overton Window, Paris climate accords, Pearl River Delta, planetary scale, Potemkin village, price stability, Productivity paradox, purchasing power parity, QR code, quantitative easing, remote working, reserve currency, reshoring, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, secular stagnation, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, six sigma, social distancing, South China Sea, special drawing rights, stock buybacks, tail risk, TikTok, too big to fail, TSMC, universal basic income, Washington Consensus, women in the workforce, yield curve

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, affirmative action, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Ben Horowitz, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Cambridge Analytica, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, data science, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, end-to-end encryption, fake news, George Floyd, global pandemic, green new deal, hockey-stick growth, Ian Bogost, illegal immigration, immigration reform, independent contractor, information security, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Roose, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, natural language processing, offshore financial centre, Parler "social media", Peter Thiel, QAnon, RAND corporation, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Mercer, Russian election interference, Salesforce, Sam Altman, Saturday Night Live, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, social web, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, subscription business, surveillance capitalism, TechCrunch disrupt, TikTok, Travis Kalanick, WikiLeaks

Greater: Britain After the Storm by Penny Mordaunt, Chris Lewis

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, accelerated depreciation, Ada Lovelace, Airbnb, banking crisis, battle of ideas, behavioural economics, Bernie Madoff, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Bob Geldof, Boeing 747, Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, Brexit referendum, British Empire, carbon footprint, Charles Babbage, collective bargaining, Corn Laws, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, credit crunch, crowdsourcing, data is not the new oil, data is the new oil, David Attenborough, death from overwork, Deng Xiaoping, Diane Coyle, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, driverless car, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, experimental economics, failed state, fake news, Firefox, fixed income, full employment, gender pay gap, global pandemic, global supply chain, green new deal, happiness index / gross national happiness, high-speed rail, impact investing, Jeremy Corbyn, Khartoum Gordon, lateral thinking, Live Aid, lockdown, loss aversion, low skilled workers, microaggression, mittelstand, moral hazard, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, Ocado, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, Panamax, Ponzi scheme, post-truth, quantitative easing, remote working, road to serfdom, Salesforce, Sheryl Sandberg, Skype, smart cities, social distancing, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, surveillance capitalism, transaction costs, transcontinental railway

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul

2021 United States Capitol attack, 23andMe, Big Tech, coronavirus, COVID-19, emotional labour, financial independence, Google Earth, Jaron Lanier, John Perry Barlow, Kickstarter, lock screen, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, Minecraft, off-the-grid, pre–internet, QR code, QWERTY keyboard, rolodex, Rubik’s Cube, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, TaskRabbit, telemarketer, TikTok, trickle-down economics, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Wall-E

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms by Amy B. Zegart

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, active measures, air gap, airport security, Apollo 13, Bellingcat, Bernie Sanders, Bletchley Park, Chelsea Manning, classic study, cloud computing, cognitive bias, commoditize, coronavirus, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, deep learning, deepfake, DeepMind, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, dual-use technology, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, failed state, feminist movement, framing effect, fundamental attribution error, Gene Kranz, global pandemic, global supply chain, Google Earth, index card, information asymmetry, information security, Internet of things, job automation, John Markoff, lockdown, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, Nate Silver, Network effects, off-the-grid, openstreetmap, operational security, Parler "social media", post-truth, power law, principal–agent problem, QAnon, RAND corporation, Richard Feynman, risk tolerance, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, Russian election interference, Saturday Night Live, selection bias, seminal paper, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Stuxnet, synthetic biology, uber lyft, unit 8200, uranium enrichment, WikiLeaks, zero day, zero-sum game

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream by Alissa Quart

2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carried interest, coronavirus, COVID-19, critical race theory, crowdsourcing, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Graeber, defund the police, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, financial independence, fixed income, George Floyd, gig economy, glass ceiling, high net worth, housing justice, hustle culture, illegal immigration, impact investing, income inequality, independent contractor, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, lockdown, longitudinal study, loss aversion, Lyft, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, microaggression, Milgram experiment, minimum wage unemployment, multilevel marketing, obamacare, Overton Window, payday loans, post-work, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Scientific racism, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Snapchat, social distancing, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, tech worker, TED Talk, Travis Kalanick, trickle-down economics, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, W. E. B. Du Bois, wealth creators, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

2021 United States Capitol attack, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, air traffic controllers' union, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, anti-communist, AOL-Time Warner, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, borderless world, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, Broken windows theory, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Cass Sunstein, collective bargaining, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, crony capitalism, cuban missile crisis, David Brooks, David Graeber, death from overwork, defund the police, deindustrialization, democratizing finance, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Donald Trump, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, European colonialism, Ferguson, Missouri, financial deregulation, financial engineering, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, future of work, Future Shock, George Floyd, George Gilder, gig economy, Glass-Steagall Act, global supply chain, green new deal, Greenspan put, guns versus butter model, Haight Ashbury, Henry Ford's grandson gave labor union leader Walter Reuther a tour of the company’s new, automated factory…, Ida Tarbell, immigration reform, informal economy, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, John Perry Barlow, Kevin Kelly, Kitchen Debate, low interest rates, Lyft, manufacturing employment, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, Menlo Park, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, millennium bug, Modern Monetary Theory, money market fund, Mont Pelerin Society, mortgage debt, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, neoliberal agenda, new economy, New Journalism, Northern Rock, obamacare, Occupy movement, oil shock, open borders, Peter Thiel, Philip Mirowski, Powell Memorandum, precariat, price stability, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, Seymour Hersh, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, social distancing, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, Strategic Defense Initiative, super pumped, technoutopianism, Telecommunications Act of 1996, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Chicago School, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, too big to fail, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, urban decay, urban renewal, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, We are all Keynesians now, We are the 99%, white flight, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration, Y2K, Yom Kippur War

American Marxism by Mark R. Levin

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", 2021 United States Capitol attack, affirmative action, American ideology, belling the cat, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, British Empire, carbon tax, centre right, clean water, collective bargaining, colonial exploitation, conceptual framework, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, critical race theory, crony capitalism, data science, defund the police, degrowth, deindustrialization, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, energy security, Food sovereignty, George Floyd, green new deal, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, income inequality, liberal capitalism, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, means of production, Michael Shellenberger, microaggression, New Journalism, open borders, Parler "social media", planned obsolescence, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, school choice, school vouchers, single-payer health, tech billionaire, the market place, urban sprawl, yellow journalism

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, active measures, affirmative action, Albert Einstein, Ayatollah Khomeini, Black Lives Matter, centre right, classic study, Climategate, company town, coronavirus, COVID-19, critical race theory, deplatforming, disinformation, disintermediation, Donald Trump, experimental subject, facts on the ground, fake news, Filter Bubble, framing effect, hive mind, illegal immigration, information asymmetry, invention of movable type, Isaac Newton, jimmy wales, Jon Ronson, Louis Pasteur, market bubble, meta-analysis, microaggression, mirror neurons, Peace of Westphalia, peer-to-peer, post-truth, profit motive, QAnon, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, Russian election interference, social software, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, technoutopianism, TED Talk, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Tragedy of the Commons, yellow journalism, Yochai Benkler, zero-sum game

Their frustration grows as reality-based institutions—mainstream journalists, the courts, scholars, government agencies—reject their claims, but being rejected only makes them surer that a conspiracy is afoot. As their anger and fear rise, they may finally resort to creed war, cold or hot. The rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the counting of electoral votes on January 6, 2021, believed that right there in front of them, inside the building only yards away, Congress was in the process of reversing the people’s will and stealing democracy. Given what they thought were the stakes, many of them saw little option but to take up arms in defense of truth.

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, blockchain, business cycle, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, Donald Trump, Edward Jenner, fake news, full employment, George Floyd, global pandemic, Great Leap Forward, income inequality, jimmy wales, Kickstarter, lab leak, lockdown, Louis Pasteur, meta-analysis, mouse model, Nate Silver, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, plutocrats, QAnon, RAND corporation, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Steve Bannon, the scientific method, TikTok, transcontinental railway, zoonotic diseases

Patty Murray recounts her narrow escape from a violent mob inside the U.S. Capitol,” PBS NewsHour, Feb. 12, 2021. only weapons: Mike Gallagher, “Republican congressman: To keep safe during Capitol attack, we barricaded my office door,” USA Today, Jan. 14, 2021. “I’ve not seen anything like this”: “GOP lawmaker on Capitol riot: Trump needs to call it off,” CNN, January 6, 2021. Dozens of cops: Nadia Kounang and Whitney Wild, “38 Capitol Police officers test positive for Covid-19 after Capitol riot,” CNN, Jan. 24, 2021. 300 million: Christopher Rowland, Lena H. Sun, Isaac Stanley-Becker, and Carolyn Y. Johnson, “Trump’s Operation Warp Speed promised a flood of Covid vaccines.

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, big-box store, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, COVID-19, critical race theory, crowdsourcing, defund the police, Donald Trump, drug harm reduction, Easter island, fake news, Haight Ashbury, half of the world's population has never made a phone call, knowledge economy, labor-force participation, Laura Poitras, liberation theology, mandatory minimum, mass incarceration, medical malpractice, medical residency, mutually assured destruction, New Journalism, NSO Group, obamacare, off grid, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Overton Window, pill mill, Ponzi scheme, QAnon, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, single-payer health, social distancing, The Chicago School, Upton Sinclair, working poor, working-age population, Y2K, zero-sum game

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, asset-backed security, bank run, banking crisis, Basel III, Bear Stearns, collateralized debt obligation, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Dutch auction, financial engineering, financial innovation, fixed income, Ford Model T, forensic accounting, forward guidance, full employment, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, global reserve currency, Greenspan put, hydraulic fracturing, income inequality, inflation targeting, Internet Archive, inverted yield curve, junk bonds, lockdown, long and variable lags, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, market bubble, Money creation, mortgage debt, new economy, obamacare, pets.com, power law, proprietary trading, quantitative easing, reserve currency, risk tolerance, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, stock buybacks, too big to fail, yield curve

Firms,” Axios, June 15, 2020; Jeff Stein and Rachel Siegel, “Treasury’s Mnuchin Defends Ending Lending Programs, Fires Back at Federal Reserve,” Washington Post, November 20, 2020. On January 6, 2021, thousands of violent: Nicholas Fandos and Emily Cochrane, “After Pro-Trump Mob Storms Capitol, Congress Confirms Biden’s Win,” New York Times, January 6, 2021; “Stock Market News for January 7, 2021,” Zacks Equity Research, via Yahoo!Finance, January 7, 2021. That month, millions of traders: Matt Phillips, Taylor Lorenz, Tara Siegel Bernard, and Gillian Friedman, “The Hopes That Rose and Fell with GameStop,” New York Times, February 7, 2021; video of Federal Reserve press conference, January 27, 2021, uploaded to Federal Reserve Board of Governors website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/videos.htm.

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

2021 United States Capitol attack, Airbnb, augmented reality, bitcoin, Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Brian Krebs, Cody Wilson, commoditize, computerized markets, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, forensic accounting, Global Witness, Google Glasses, Higgs boson, hive mind, impulse control, index card, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Large Hadron Collider, machine readable, market design, operational security, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, pirate software, Ponzi scheme, ransomware, reserve currency, ride hailing / ride sharing, rolodex, Ross Ulbricht, Satoshi Nakamoto, Skype, slashdot, Social Justice Warrior, the market place, web application, WikiLeaks

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today by Jane McGonigal

2021 United States Capitol attack, Airbnb, airport security, Alvin Toffler, augmented reality, autism spectrum disorder, autonomous vehicles, availability heuristic, basic income, biodiversity loss, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, circular economy, clean water, climate change refugee, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, Community Supported Agriculture, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRISPR, cryptocurrency, data science, decarbonisation, digital divide, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, Elon Musk, fake news, fiat currency, future of work, Future Shock, game design, George Floyd, global pandemic, global supply chain, Greta Thunberg, income inequality, index card, Internet of things, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, Kickstarter, labor-force participation, lockdown, longitudinal study, Mason jar, mass immigration, meta-analysis, microbiome, Minecraft, moral hazard, open borders, pattern recognition, place-making, plant based meat, post-truth, QAnon, QR code, remote working, RFID, risk tolerance, School Strike for Climate, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Snapchat, social distancing, stem cell, TED Talk, telepresence, telepresence robot, The future is already here, TikTok, traumatic brain injury, universal basic income, women in the workforce, work culture , Y Combinator

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Airbnb, Bellingcat, Ben Horowitz, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, call centre, centre right, cloud computing, Comet Ping Pong, Computer Lib, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, dark pattern, data science, deep learning, deliberate practice, desegregation, disinformation, domesticated silver fox, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, end-to-end encryption, fake news, Filter Bubble, Future Shock, game design, gamification, George Floyd, growth hacking, Hacker Conference 1984, Hacker News, hive mind, illegal immigration, Jeff Bezos, John Perry Barlow, Jon Ronson, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Assange, Kevin Roose, lockdown, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, military-industrial complex, Oklahoma City bombing, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, profit maximization, public intellectual, QAnon, recommendation engine, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rutger Bregman, Saturday Night Live, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, social web, Startup school, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Susan Wojcicki, tech billionaire, tech worker, Ted Nelson, TED Talk, TikTok, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, Y Combinator

Dominic Pezzola, Case 1:21-mj-00047, January 13, 2021. 101 Former friends told Vice News: “The Proud Boy Who Smashed a US Capitol Window Is a Former Marine,” Tess Owen and Mack Lamoureux, Vice News, January 15, 2021. 102 “Load your guns and take”: “The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson,” Connor Sheets, ProPublica and Birmingham News, January 15, 2021. 103 Boyland’s family said: “Death of QAnon Follower at Capitol Leaves a Wake of Pain,” Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Evan Hill, New York Times, May 30, 2021. 104 filmed Babbitt’s death: “The Story of the Man Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt’s Death,” Samuel Benson, Deseret News, August 11, 2021. 105 “That got me moved”: “John Sullivan, Who Filmed Shooting of Ashli Babbitt in Capitol, Detained on Federal Charges,” Robert Mackey, The Intercept, January 14, 2021. 106 “Can we get some courage”: “Twitter, Facebook Freeze Trump Accounts as Tech Giants Respond to Storming of U.S. Capitol,” Elizabeth Culliford, Katie Paul, and Joseph Menn, Reuters, January 6, 2021. 107 “We need to take down”: “Facebook Forced Its Employees to Stop Discussing Trump’s Coup Attempt,” Ryan Mac, BuzzFeed News, January 6, 2021. 108 “Social media has emboldened”: “Alphabet Workers Union Statement on Yesterday’s Insurrection,” Alphabet Workers Union, January 7, 2021. 109 “You’ve got blood”: Tweet by Chris Sacca (@sacca), January 6, 2021. twitter.com/sacca/status/1346921144859783169 110 “I’ve never been a fan”: “Joe Biden,” The Editorial Board, New York Times, January 17, 2020. 111 “Perhaps no single entity”: Tom Malinowski and Anna G.

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, affirmative action, Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-bias training, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, clean tech, cloud computing, contact tracing, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, critical race theory, crony capitalism, cryptocurrency, defund the police, deplatforming, desegregation, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, fudge factor, full employment, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, green new deal, hiring and firing, Hyperloop, impact investing, independent contractor, index fund, Jeff Bezos, lockdown, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, microaggression, military-industrial complex, Network effects, Parler "social media", plant based meat, Ponzi scheme, profit maximization, random walk, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk-adjusted returns, Robert Bork, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, self-driving car, shareholder value, short selling, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley ideology, single source of truth, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, source of truth, sovereign wealth fund, Susan Wojcicki, the scientific method, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, trade route, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, Vanguard fund, Virgin Galactic, WeWork, zero-sum game

Four Battlegrounds by Paul Scharre

2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, active measures, activist lawyer, AI winter, AlphaGo, amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics, artificial general intelligence, ASML, augmented reality, Automated Insights, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Boeing 737 MAX, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, business continuity plan, business process, carbon footprint, chief data officer, Citizen Lab, clean water, cloud computing, commoditize, computer vision, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, DALL-E, data is not the new oil, data is the new oil, data science, deep learning, deepfake, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Deng Xiaoping, digital map, digital rights, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, dual-use technology, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, fake news, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, future of journalism, future of work, game design, general purpose technology, Geoffrey Hinton, geopolitical risk, George Floyd, global supply chain, GPT-3, Great Leap Forward, hive mind, hustle culture, ImageNet competition, immigration reform, income per capita, interchangeable parts, Internet Archive, Internet of things, iterative process, Jeff Bezos, job automation, Kevin Kelly, Kevin Roose, large language model, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, military-industrial complex, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, natural language processing, new economy, Nick Bostrom, one-China policy, Open Library, OpenAI, PalmPilot, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, phenotype, post-truth, purchasing power parity, QAnon, QR code, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, recommendation engine, reshoring, ride hailing / ride sharing, robotic process automation, Rodney Brooks, Rubik’s Cube, self-driving car, Shoshana Zuboff, side project, Silicon Valley, slashdot, smart cities, smart meter, Snapchat, social software, sorting algorithm, South China Sea, sparse data, speech recognition, Steve Bannon, Steven Levy, Stuxnet, supply-chain attack, surveillance capitalism, systems thinking, tech worker, techlash, telemarketer, The Brussels Effect, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, TikTok, trade route, TSMC

., “Permanent Suspension of @realDonaldTrump,” Twitter Blog, January 8, 2021, https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html; Mark Zuckerberg, “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate . . .” Facebook, January 7, 2021, https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112681480907401. 150account suspensions were clearly necessary: Sheera Frenkel, “The Storming of Capitol Hill Was Organized on Social Media,” New York Times, January 6, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/protesters-storm-capitol-hill-building.html. 150Republican members of Congress objected to certifying: Karen Yourish, Larry Buchanan, and Denise Lu, “The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results,” New York Times, January 7, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html. 150debunked allegations of fraud: Ann Gerhart, “Election Results Under Attack: Here Are the Facts,” Washington Post, updated March 11, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2020/election-integrity/. 19.

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

2021 United States Capitol attack, Aaron Swartz, affirmative action, air traffic controllers' union, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, Apple II, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, back-to-the-land, bank run, Bear Stearns, Big Tech, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, Black Lives Matter, Bob Noyce, book scanning, British Empire, business climate, California gold rush, Cambridge Analytica, capital controls, Charles Lindbergh, classic study, cloud computing, collective bargaining, colonial exploitation, colonial rule, Colonization of Mars, commoditize, company town, computer age, conceptual framework, coronavirus, corporate personhood, COVID-19, cuban missile crisis, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, deskilling, digital map, double helix, Douglas Engelbart, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, Erlich Bachman, estate planning, European colonialism, Fairchild Semiconductor, financial engineering, financial innovation, fixed income, Frederick Winslow Taylor, fulfillment center, future of work, Garrett Hardin, gentrification, George Floyd, ghettoisation, global value chain, Golden Gate Park, Google bus, Google Glasses, greed is good, hiring and firing, housing crisis, hydraulic fracturing, if you build it, they will come, illegal immigration, immigration reform, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, iterative process, Jeff Bezos, Joan Didion, John Markoff, joint-stock company, Jony Ive, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, knowledge worker, land reform, Larry Ellison, Lean Startup, legacy carrier, life extension, longitudinal study, low-wage service sector, Lyft, manufacturing employment, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, Max Levchin, means of production, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, microdosing, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, Mont Pelerin Society, moral panic, mortgage tax deduction, Mother of all demos, move fast and break things, mutually assured destruction, new economy, Oculus Rift, off grid, oil shale / tar sands, PageRank, PalmPilot, passive income, Paul Graham, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, pets.com, phenotype, pill mill, platform as a service, Ponzi scheme, popular electronics, power law, profit motive, race to the bottom, radical life extension, RAND corporation, Recombinant DNA, refrigerator car, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, rising living standards, risk tolerance, Robert Bork, Robert Mercer, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, San Francisco homelessness, Sand Hill Road, scientific management, semantic web, sexual politics, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, social web, SoftBank, software as a service, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Stanford prison experiment, stem cell, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, stock buybacks, strikebreaker, Suez canal 1869, super pumped, TaskRabbit, tech worker, Teledyne, telemarketer, the long tail, the new new thing, thinkpad, Thorstein Veblen, Tim Cook: Apple, Tony Fadell, too big to fail, Toyota Production System, Tragedy of the Commons, transcontinental railway, traumatic brain injury, Travis Kalanick, TSMC, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, ubercab, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban renewal, value engineering, Vannevar Bush, vertical integration, Vision Fund, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, warehouse robotics, Wargames Reagan, Washington Consensus, white picket fence, William Shockley: the traitorous eight, women in the workforce, Y Combinator, Y2K, Yogi Berra, éminence grise