I'm aware that, like, leading with 3 episodes about a law firm in the early 19th century was not exactly riveting in the traditional sense, but I think this is genuinely gonna be interesting to most people. it's also my best work so far, by a lot
new episode, with lots of great stuff, like where else will you find out that Allen Dulles didn't get to make contact with VI Lenin because he was having a threesome with some Swiss twin sisters?
I have some really top-tier content planned for the future, but today it'll be a thread about more interesting tidbits gleaned from two mediocre books. there's still value, even if most mafia books are like reading adult coloring books.
I wonder how many organized crime books are written by the criminals' kids. I've read at least three recently; it seems like they're usually the weaker ones too, lol. in this case, this guy's grandfather died in the gang warfare of Chicago's Prohibition era
so, the Mafia Summit book talks about Carlo Tresca, who was a really interesting figure in the IWW. I didn't know he dated Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, for instance
I read this book recently, and although it was not great, I had a couple notes to share about the early days of computers
the most interesting parts of the book (to me, anyway) wasn't the ENIAC machine per se, but the Hollerith tabulating machine, which essentially became IBM. IBM's first real contract was the US census, right?
which we all know from reading 2nd Samuel ch. 24 that numbering the people is actually a sin, right?
let's talk hypothetically. what if there was a secret religion that practiced pedophilia and human sacrifices, but like, in a systematic way? would this explain why high-level rings keep coming up? what if I told you that this exists?
in the past, I've tried to look into "actually existing pedophile and/or murder cults", but today I'm gonna try to reverse-engineer the formula and look at the theory, such as it is, for this secret religion. lfg.
as always, I gotta front-load my disclaimers. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I've tried to read as much as I could about this strain of ritual magick.
I'm not that interested in defending magick, but I ought to say that the majority of people doing magick aren't sus in...
"In common with most forms of magical procedure, rapport with Lam requires stern self-discipline and dedication to a higher purpose..."
"Referring back to The Lam Statement we find that "adumbrations of identity with Lam may be experienced as a strong sense of the unreality or unfamiliarity of the "objective" universe..."
"There is a definite parallel here with the curious sense of dissociation experienced by very many witnesses. In recent years there has been an increasing acceptance that this sort of thing is not pure delusion. Jenny Randles for instance, refers to it as the "Oz Effect"."