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got lucky with some very fun links and books recently, spreadin' the goods here.

• lainchan is. a marvel. of a site that's like a more curated version of 4chan for my tastes? 
• (and tangentially) lainzine. collection of 4.5 zines that oh my god instantly have a spot on my library. nowhere else can you find material that teaches you to make a stun gun(!!!) plus probably the most accessible introduction to hacking i've ever read plus a philosophical-slash-fiction dream sequence. also by far the best book design/layout from a graphical standpoint I've seen - it makes me suspiciously curious as to what the creators do for their dayjobs - probably at the top of their fields.
  
  • 04: “ Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that is a coincidence”  l  o  l

• Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art - out of print Rizzoli art book that I had the lucky opportunity to grab for 100% charity returns.  greatest collection of punk art I've seen yet, with some lovely excerpts from the scene. It feels very honest in a way I haven't felt from an art book in, well, decades. 
• Hackers & Slackers - felt more like an overgrown zine than a book (i suspect that's where some of the low reviews came from), but a lovely piece of first-person history of the NY hacker-and-truly underground art scene. Don't see too many other books where Tom of Finland is mentioned right next to Myst and MIT.
• National Security Internet Archive - ever wanted to paw through every interesting declassified document from every major branch of the US government? my jaw honestly dropped when I realized how many ridiculously interesting docus there were in here after stumbling through it on my usual interrogation research spree (that is quite a selection of words, i know). some fun ones: 
  
  • (CIA) MKULTRA files
  • (NSA) Military Cryptoanalytics
  • (State Department) 7000 Hilary Clinton Emails
  • (DoD) INSCOM Dossiers
  • (NSA) NSA Methodology for Adversary Obstruction
  • (CIA) A Psychological Analysis of Hitler
  • (FBI) JFK assassination files
  • every goddamn military field manual you could put your hands on
  • and a shit ton of UFO files lol. this is like literally the gold bucket for anyone vaguely interested in mil-hist/hacking
• https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ - haven't had the time to fully poke through this one yet, but a fun hacker/privacy centric site to read through.