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title: 'Book Review: "The Tower of the Tyrant" - J.T. Greathouse'
title: '📖 Book Review: "The Tower of the Tyrant" - J.T. Greathouse'
date: 2026-02-04T20:37:14.936Z
slug: 2026-02-04-book-review-the-tower-of-the-tyrant-jt-greathouse
author: Thomas Wilson
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Books are so cool, dude.
[^1]: Namely Joe Abercrombie's *The Age of Madness* trilogy.
[^2]: They die, dear reader. We may see it coming a mile off, but they did not.

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date: 2026-03-13T08:03:18.862Z
slug: 2026-03-13--book-review-the-other-pandemic
author: Thomas Wilson-Cook
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I posted recently ([link](/blog/2026-02-28-book-review-the-evening-and-the-morning)) that I had started reading James Ball's *The Other Pandemic - How QAnon Contaminated the World*. I ended up finishing the book relatively soon after that post.
I posted recently ([link](/blog/2026-02-27--started-reading-the-other-pandemic)) that I had started reading James Ball's *The Other Pandemic - How QAnon Contaminated the World*. ([bookshop.org](https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-other-pandemic-how-qanon-contaminated-the-world-james-ball/7618064)) I ended up finishing the book relatively soon after that post.
I think this is a book worth reading, both if you're interested in social media and disinformation (as I am), but also if you're just someone who uses the internet (which I also am!). If you're reading these words, you're at least one of the two, maybe both.
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We take a look at events as a bit of a distance: through news reports and judicial statistics. Personally, I would have liked to see how earnestly do the people involved in gamergate or QAnon believe what they're saying. How much of it is a "legitimised" outlet for displaced anger? How are they committing all the time and effort required for such a sustained, multi-directional attack on women, while also living the rest of their lives?
But then we run into the worried conversation about platforming radical beliefs accidentally sanitising and platforming beliefs. And in doing so, you create your own pipeline.
But then we run into the worried conversation about platforming radical beliefs accidentally sanitising them. And in doing so, you create your own pipeline.
Ball sustains a kind of attention on 4chan that I came to realise was rare. I genuinely wonder why. Because it's distasteful? Because it's not really a single thing? Because journalists don't really understand what an image board *is*?
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[^6]: One of them co-hosts the Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast ([link](https://www.somedarecallitconspiracy.com/))
[^7]: For extreme clarity: that is satire.