The book I'm not reading while the nearby fellow nerds talk about... let's see, I think they've now talking about monarchies (no, they're back on Star Wars... no, Star Trek while I was writing this... no, they've bounced onto Firefly)... is Giles Milton's Checkmate In Berlin, which basically has me panting to run a Delta Green or Le Carré-inspired Forged In the Dark hack set in Occupied Berlin.
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Assistant Public Defender 1997-2023 (ret.). Writes occasionally. Knows one or two guitar chords, nothing fancy. Trying to relearn the bass. Married with cat.
A pleasure of doing a Shirley Jackson reread: that moment of coming back to one of the greatest opening paragraphs in all of American literature.
I was enjoying Ezra Klein's piece about the BirdSite as public square until I got to this piece of conventional wisdom.
I don't think it's entirely wrong, but it's essentially wrong.
I don't think social media has made things worse but distracting us, or merely by amplifying bad information (which it certainly does). I think it's also made things worse by making it impossible to ignore how bad they already were. 1/
I kinda love that the BBC decided this was an appropriate content warning (note: this is a screenshot, not a link):