Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-11-22
Lex Fridman & Chris Tarbell: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #340
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – True Classic Tees: https://trueclassictees.
Lex Fridman discussed Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bloodlands
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder is a historical examination of the mass killings and political atrocities committed by the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in Eastern Europe during the mid-twentieth century.
Discussed“bloodlands is another book I've been really recently reading about it and the ability of humans to convince they're doing good when they're clearly murdering and torturing people in front of their eyes is fascinating”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Mein Kampf
“It's hard to visualize it in the way I can visualize, like, I've been reading a lot about Hitler; I can visualize meetings between people, military strategy, deciding on certain evil atrocities, all that kind of stuff. I can visualize the people; there's agreements, handshakes, stuff signed, groups built. In the digital space, like with bots, with anonymity, anyone human”