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“Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.”
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
“A 2016 study found that purchasing even a single meal with a value of $20 for a physician can be enough to change the way that he prescribes. And for all their lip service to the contrary, the Sacklers didn’t need studies to tell them this.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“Capitalism has no land left to cultivate but the self. Everything is being cannibalized—not just goods and labor, but personality and relationships and attention. The next step is complete identification with the online marketplace, physical and spiritual inseparability from the internet: a nightmare that is already banging down the door.”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them. This is why everyone tries to look so hot and well-traveled on Instagram; this is why everyone seems so smug and triumphant on Facebook; this is why, on Twitter, making a righteous political statement has come to seem, for many people, like a political good in itself. This practice is often called “virtue signaling,”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jack’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
68 books
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6 friends
245 books
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9 friends
538 books
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67 friends
71 books
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2 friends
177 books
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13 friends
136 books
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7 friends
239 books
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8 friends
7 books
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1 friend
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