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TIL of socialite Ida Wood - Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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In 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later

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Alex Lasarenko - The First Evening (youtu.be)
 

My favorite piece from this album. Defunctland made an excellent documentary that he's mentioned in if you haven't seen it.

What are you reading this week? [6/18/23] in c/books@kbin.social
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I just finished Awaken Online: Armageddon by Travis Bagwell and I'm looking for something new. Armageddon was excellent, though now I gotta wait for the next one :(

My nonfiction/heavy book right now is Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos. The evolution of fascism is terrifying.