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?