What are you reading?

[Yesterday]

An introduction to formal logic



My intention is for pure enjoyment of a very well written symbolic logic book for casual revisioning of formal logic.
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Not sure when, maybe in a year or so, but I want to take a crack at Vol 1. of Foundations in Applied Mathematics

I'm currently learning web development (HTML, CSS, JS, React, SQL, MongoDB, VScode IDE, Unix bash, Git, etc.) and if all works out well, I'll teach myself Data Science. I have two project ideas: First project will be a database of the dominant facial phenotypes of ethnic groups from major geographic locations around the world, illustrating the beauty of facial phenotypic variance among these groups and the obvious homogeneity that connects us through a set of dominant facial phenotypes across all people groups. The second project is an NLP model that analyzes native Irish communication to isolate what makes their society truly multicultural and utilitarian toward furthering racism eradication studies.

[Catoptric]

I was looking over files that are not needed in the documents folder, and realized I already had 2 gigs of additional downloads to what came with the Complete National Geographic DVD's, which were downloaded. It also requires a cd at all times in the drive for it to function, and I would much rather just flip through pdf files. . .

This only goes from the 1880s' to 1940s (though say's "complete," yet it's still better than dealing with the cd roms.)
https://archive.org/details/national-ge ... vil%20War/

The earlier publications tend to be why I wanted to look through them, and using discs are pretty much unbearable.

Also, I needed to fill in another decade of Mad Magazine (linked earlier from the 1950s to 1968)
https://archive.org/details/mad_magazin ... ine%20201/

[Madrigal]

It was such beautiful writing.

The story of two people accused of witchcraft and how they are actually scapegoated for the town's struggles against hardship, disease, nature, the natives and also other colonists.

Ironically, even the town founder and magistrate initially hearing the case, William Pynchon, was accused of heresy for his writings on the crucifixion, a crime that was likened to witchcraft at the time.

Really gets into the way people lived and thought back then, and after reading the book, I see what they mean by the author "meeting the past on its own terms."

[Madrigal]

Every night, I've been reading some stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen. I'm really liking Katherine Mansfield's earlier stories. The latter seem a bit more focused on class, the earlier ones on love (I haven't read enough to be sure of that though).

[HighlyIrregular II]

The Facebook group Useless, Unsuccessful, and/or Unpopular Signage is pretty good.

[Catoptric]

I seem to have only posted a link to these in the 'What are you watching now" following a reference to Witcher 3 (which I really underestimated.)


The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski.
https://archive.org/details/witcher2swo ... st%20Wish/

I'm trying to recall if I had ever encountered the books prior to the game, as it's a bit like George R. Martin's Game of Thrones totally being overlooked by me until the FOMO BS came out on HBO (though I guess I'm only judging it as such, because I only watched Season 1, and apparently ignored it until later when the high ratings from season 2 up until season 5, went down-hill. https://www.metacritic.com/tv/game-of-thrones )

The most similar thing to Game of Thrones was HBO's Rome, which was canceled and had some irregularities about the performance that made me seriously wonder if the actors were actually brawling with each other (Mark Antony and Octavian Julius (Augustus Caeser); and segueing into a new actor replacing him with the intent of showing the progression of age following the inevitable historical allying with the psychopathic Cleopatra and conflict with Rome.)



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A former CIA agent's writing
https://www.burgessct.com/about/christo ... -articles/

Who strangely hasn't published anything in the last year
https://www.quora.com/profile/Christopher-Burgess-1

Though it seems he moved on to Twitter
https://twitter.com/burgessct?ref_src=t ... r%5Eauthor



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(since these are only previews, I'll post something after the **)

Narcissism : denial of the true self
by Lowen, Alexander
https://archive.org/details/narcissismdenia000lowe

Homecoming : reclaiming and championing your inner child
by Bradshaw, John, 1933-
https://archive.org/details/homecomingr ... 9/mode/2up



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Early narcissistic transference patterns:An exploratory single case study from theperspective of dialogical self theory
https://www.academia.edu/13182889/Early ... elf_theory



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Joseph Campbell monomyth theory epubs/pdf
https://archive.org/details/the-hero-wi ... %20Living/


Much of George Lucas' story development revolved around Joseph Campbell's "monomyth theory" and Disney seems to just exacerbate caricatures.



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Proof that "gingers" have no soul?

Everything to Know About the Murdaugh Family Murders, Including Alex's Conviction
https://people.com/crime/murdaugh-famil ... g-to-know/

Update: 8 years ago Alex Murdaugh's son, Buster was in some kind of gay tryst with a boy found dead from a hit and run near their family home, and they are just now convinced he was connected to it? The dead housekeeper wasn't a dead giveaway as well?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... perty.html

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I might have posted this before (1592 historical Chinese fiction about a monkey man, which likely inspired the character Goku of Dragon Ball series.) https://www.deviantart.com/nightkaminar ... -435261497


Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
https://archive.org/details/journeytoth ... hengen1592



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'No Surrender' by Hiroo Onoda
https://archive.org/details/hiroo-onoda ... war_202111

Documentary videos
https://archive.org/details/okis-weird- ... art+1.webm


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Upton Sinclair The Jungle
https://archive.org/details/jungle00sinc/

[Catoptric]

Irrational man: Study in existential philosophy by Barrett, William
https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.29440

"Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to feel himself an outsider even within his own human society. He is trebly alienated: a stranger to God, to nature, and to the gigantic social apparatus that supplies his material wants."

"But the worst and final form of alienation, toward which indeed the others tend, is man's alienation from his own self. In a society that requires of man only that he perform competently his own particular social function, man becomes identified with this function, and the rest of his being is allowed to subsist as best it can - usually to be dropped below the surface of consciousness and forgotten."
~William Barrett


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I might get around to reading some of the Dune series (but I truly believe it's one of those series that is best stopped at the first book. . .)

https://archive.org/details/dune-saga-c ... 20Herbert/

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Demystification of Stephen King's Fiction in the Context of Postmodernism
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... tmodernism



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The French story of Goldilocks is completely different from the English adaptation of a 'Goldilocks and the The Bears'

English vs French story
https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.co ... s%20(1918).

French Story
https://fairytalez.com/fair-goldilocks/

French Fairytales in English book
https://publicdomainreview.org/collecti ... rrett-1920

Probably the easiest way to get familiarized with the French stories
https://fairytalez.com/region/french/


I was wondering why you don't see a lot of Disney movies based on French fairytales, and figured it might be because they are as grim as Grimms.
https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2019 ... beard.html


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Bedtime stories:

FINAL EVENTS And The Secret Government Group On Demonic UFOs And The Afterlife ( PDFDrive )
https://archive.org/details/final-event ... e-pdfdrive



Five Poems by Sergei Yesenin
https://www.ronslate.com/five-poems-by-sergei-yesenin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Yesenin




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Spy vs Spy comics
https://archive.org/details/MADMagazine ... 7/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/SpyVsSpyThe ... 3/mode/2up

And some audio books are also in the user account

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I was looking for Ayn Rand books (the usual) and came across this crazy collection (and if I were to guess he is probably a militia member.)
https://archive.org/details/@roboburger

*I was a bit biased as the first things that show up are a book about Truthers being an underground movement, along with a book on explosives, as well as gunsmithing*


So here are the Ayn Rand books
https://archive.org/details/AtlasShrugged/
https://archive.org/details/fountainhead0000aynr


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Why the Hell Are We Still Reading Ernest Hemingway?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-the-h ... -hemingway


Top 10 Ernest Hemingway Books
https://leaders.com/articles/books/erne ... way-books/

For Whom the Bell Tolls
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20210122

The rest
https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?a ... ,%20Ernest



For some reason it's difficult to find pdf (seems this website is a goldmine)
Steinbeck https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?a ... ck,%20John
Huxley https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?a ... %20Leonard
Lovecraft https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?a ... 20Phillips
Fleming https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?a ... ing,%20Ian



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The bullshit of Zecharia Sitchin

Christian O’Brien V Zecharia Sitchin
https://www.goldenageproject.org.uk/obrienvsitchin.php

PDF download available

[Catoptric]

Charles Bukowski Poems (all?)

https://archive.org/details/Bukowskicol ... n%20Flame/




Oil!: a novel
by Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
https://archive.org/details/oilnovel000 ... 2/mode/2up

THERE WILL BE BLOOD - 2007 movie with Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano is Based on Oil! by Upton Sinclair




Hist Indian tribes of North America by McKenney, Thomas

Vol 1
https://archive.org/details/indiantribesofno0001mcke

Vol 2
https://archive.org/details/indiantribe ... e/mode/2up

Vol 3
https://archive.org/details/indiantribesofno0003mcke





Poems Hist Lydgate's Fall of Princes Part 1 of 14th century Boccaccio poems, Edited by Henry Bergen from Laurent de Premierfait French
translation

Part 1
https://archive.org/details/lydgatesfal ... 3/mode/2up

Part 2
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.263249

Part 3
https://archive.org/details/fallofprinc ... 5/mode/2up

Part 4
https://archive.org/details/fallofprinc ... 7/mode/2up




UFOs and Intelligence: A Timeline
https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_ ... M_Eberhart

[Catoptric]

The Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations
by Dr. John Coleman
https://archive.org/details/coleman-joh ... -relations

Currently, it sells for $4000-8000 on Amazon (not because it's truthful or honest)
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/ ... filter-bar


Many more conspiracy books by someone whose probably in their bunker as you read this:
https://archive.org/details/fav-cgraine ... ate&page=2


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An old critique of the internet

The Shallows - What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
https://archive.org/details/the-shallows/mode/2up







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The Avengers Comic Collection 1970s
https://archive.org/details/the-avenger ... Empire%29/


A crazy amount of comic collections
https://archive.org/details/@sinatrafan

[Catoptric]

Silent Treatment: Preferred Weapon of People with Narcissism
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/silent ... on-0602145

Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.117 ... 7720929704


The leader's imperative: Ethics, integrity, and responsibility
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcon ... ess_ebooks



Bullshitting, Lying, and Indifference toward Truth
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405 ... w=fulltext



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If feeling manic

Yukio Mishima
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... Mishima%22


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Since I watched the L. Frank Baum documentary I kind of got interested in comparing the books to the movie.

Wizard of Oz
Complete collection of books with no images in one pdf:
http://jeankaleb.com/ebooks/Oz.pdf

Individual books (though it's Project Gutenberg which kind of ruins any archival quality that a PDF has.)
https://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the ... books.html

I believe the First Edition art is the only thing that matters with these.

The difference in presentation from the later versions is staggering.

First (main) Oz book images only
https://archive.org/details/thewonderfulwiza43936gut/

Others
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... 29+Baum%22

First Edition pdf (not as prestine though an actual book with text)
https://archive.org/details/wonderfulwizardo00baumiala

It's better off looking at the illustrator
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... 56-1915%22


Baum also wrote many books under different pseudonyms.
https://archive.org/details/tamawacafolksasu49731gut



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I just realized Alan Moore made 'The Killing Joke' comic (Batman)
https://archive.org/details/TheKillingJ ... 4/mode/2up