## Blogs Worth Reading
- **[Symbol Crash — Ben Kurtz](https://www.symbolcrash.com/)**
Deep musings on hacking, opsec, and strategy. Rogue mind behind the mask.
- **[Dominic Breuker](https://dominicbreuker.com/post/learning_sliver_c2_09_execute_assembly/)**
Practical insights on Sliver C2, malware dev, and offensive tradecraft.
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## Legendary Posts & Documents
- **[ShadowBrokers – “Lost in Translation” Leak](https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/lost-in-translation)**
NSA tools, real-world leaks — the breach that rewrote infosec history.
- **[CSIS – Russian Botfarms & AI Psyops](https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-bot-farm-used-ai-lie-americans-what-now)**
Weaponized information at scale. Future warfare already happened.
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## 🎥 Lectures
- **[Yuri Bezmenov – Subversion & Psychological Warfare (Full)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g)**
Former KGB psychological warfare specialist breaks it all down. Essential viewing.
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## Literary Arsenal
### Psychology, Power, and Control
- _Surveillance Capitalism_ — Shoshana Zuboff
- _Rape of the Mind_ — Joost Meerloo
- _The Origins of Totalitarianism_ — Hannah Arendt
- _The Red Book_ — Carl Jung
- _Everything_ by Nassim Taleb
### Stoicism & Classical Insight
- _Meditations_ — Marcus Aurelius
- _Letters from a Stoic_ / _On the Shortness of Life_ | _How To Die_ — Seneca
- _Discourses_ — Epictetus
- _Fragments_ — Diogenes
### Existential & Resistance Literature
- _The Stranger_ / _The Plague_ — Albert Camus
- _Metamorphosis_ — Franz Kafka
- _Brave New World_ — Aldous Huxley
- _The Soft Machine_ / _Naked Lunch_ / _The Ticket That Exploded_ — William S. Burroughs
- _Anything by Nietzsche_ — Always relevant
## Tradecraft
- _Five Rings_ - Miyoto Musashi
- _Art of War_ - Sun Tzu
- _Sandworm_ — _Andy Greenberg_
- _Ghost in the Wires_ | _The Art of Deception_ — _Kevin Mitnick_
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## Coding & Systems Thinking
- **[Fail Fast – Martin Fowler](https://www.martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf)**
Defensive engineering mindset — clarity under failure
- **[Out of the Tar Pit](https://github.com/dorchard/out-of-the-tar-pit)**
Why complexity kills — and how functional programming fights back.
- SICP - Work in Progress
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