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3 | 3 | #+date: <2024-12-31> |
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| 5 | +* America Over Water by Shirley Collins :folklore:music:america: |
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7 | | -* Going Dark by Julia Ebner :extremism:radicalisation:politics: |
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10 | | -“Like the coronavirus pandemic, the current infodemic is a global phenomenon. We need to tackle it on an international level to avoid adding a third layer to this worldwide crisis: a societal one.” |
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12 | | -― *Julia Ebner*, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists |
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17 | | -Dr. Julie Ebner specialises in radicalisation, extremism and terrorism studies. In this book she bravely infiltrates groups from far-right nationalists, Islamic terrorists to trad-wives and ISIS brides. She goes to festivals and lurks online in forums/ chat rooms probing the people she encounters looking to understand and explore. A few moments in the book magnify how close Julie gets to danger and the risks she takes to expose methods and approaches of these groups to gain control over members. I agree with some other reviewers online that this book has short sections and uses an investigative journalists tone. It does not mean it is not an informative or, dare I say, an entertaining(?) read in places. The book leaves you wanting more, to understand deeper, and to hopefully be able to recognise family or friends on the precipice of the online rabbit holes covered. |
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19 | | -Towards the end specialists are given space to make their predictions for 2025, they cover cyber crimes and mention various groups to be wary of. Living in 2025 and based on what has happened so far in the US and further afield, I get the impression that they vastly underestimated how terrifying the reality could be. |
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21 | | -Additional content: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFV49e2W5M][Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists | Julia Ebner | Talks at Google]] |
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| 10 | +Shirley Collins writes her early days and travels with Folklorist, Alan Lomax as the record audio and document the music of Americas heartland. Split in chapters between Collins' early life in -- and their professional and emotional relationship with Lomax, |
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25 | 12 | * Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll :cybersecurity:truecrime: |
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54 | 40 | * Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn :cybersecurity:truecrime:hacking:tech: |
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| 47 | +* Going Dark by Julia Ebner :extremism:radicalisation:politics: |
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| 49 | +#+begin_quote |
| 50 | +“Like the coronavirus pandemic, the current infodemic is a global phenomenon. We need to tackle it on an international level to avoid adding a third layer to this worldwide crisis: a societal one.” |
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| 52 | +― *Julia Ebner*, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists |
| 53 | +#+end_quote |
| 54 | +#+ATTR_HTML: :style float:left; margin-right: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; :width 75px |
| 55 | +[[https://res.cloudinary.com/bloomsbury-atlas/image/upload/w_568,c_scale,dpr_1.5/jackets/9781526616791.jpg]] |
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| 57 | +Dr. Julie Ebner specialises in radicalisation, extremism and terrorism studies. In this book she bravely infiltrates groups from far-right nationalists, Islamic terrorists to trad-wives and ISIS brides. She goes to festivals and lurks online in forums/ chat rooms probing the people she encounters looking to understand and explore. A few moments in the book magnify how close Julie gets to danger and the risks she takes to expose methods and approaches of these groups to gain control over members. I agree with some other reviewers online that this book has short sections and uses an investigative journalists tone. It does not mean it is not an informative or, dare I say, an entertaining(?) read in places. The book leaves you wanting more, to understand deeper, and to hopefully be able to recognise family or friends on the precipice of the online rabbit holes covered. |
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| 59 | +Towards the end specialists are given space to make their predictions for 2025, they cover cyber crimes and mention various groups to be wary of. Living in 2025 and based on what has happened so far in the US and further afield, I get the impression that they vastly underestimated how terrifying the reality could be. |
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| 61 | +Additional content: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFV49e2W5M][Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists | Julia Ebner | Talks at Google]] |
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61 | 65 | * Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto by Geoff White :truecrime:financial:technology: |
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63 | 67 | How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks |
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