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Newsletter — Week 39 Highlights (2025)

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Top 3 books this week (Sep 22–29, 2025)

  1. The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity
    Why it showed up: surfaced in a thread alleging concealed harms; a commenter claimed Pfizer “hid a lot of the damage” and linked the book.

  2. How the Irish Became White
    Why it showed up: cited to note that Irish immigrants weren’t considered “white” in the 18th–early 20th centuries.

  3. Bayesian Methods for Hackers
    Why it showed up: recommended with GitHub/O’Reilly links as a hands-on intro to probabilistic programming.

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