Post #1066140

2025-11-14 15:03 UTC

Hi, Mastodon friends, I&#39;ve been busy. I decided to turn that long blog post into a free book. Once I started working with it, I saw a million ways to improve it and make it more readable, so I think it&#39;s better. I had it professionally proofread, copyedited, and fact checked. Any errors are mine because I had to transfer all the marks to the Indesign document. Anyone wanna advance peek? I don&#39;t know how to put a PDF here, so it&#39;s on the blog page: https://terikanefield.com/whyextremismhappens/ 1/

Replies (14)

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social 2025-11-14 15:05

Now I have to figure out how to turn it into an ebook (I'll need my technical support staff for that.) The process was long. I started with a microphone and "talked" the blog post, as if once more talking to a room full of college students. My technical support staff turned those into a YouTube thing. It helped me sort out the ideas and figure out a better way to present the material. You know, keeping those college students paying attention isn't easy. 2/

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@keen456@infosec.exchange 2025-11-14 15:44

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thanks for sharing!

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@shiiko@mstdn.social 2025-11-14 16:48

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social For your website, I have set a Task and To Read, with five stars and a flag. All genuine positive attempts at moving forward ideas on this topic have to be considered.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot 2025-11-14 16:53

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thank you. I aspire to read it, but I never get on well with PDFs, so I hope you do manage to bring out an epub.

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@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services 2025-11-14 17:34

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social I just gave a very quick look. I misunderstood or there is a redundancy here : "As the saying goes, your right to swing your fist my fist stops where my nose begins."

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@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services 2025-11-14 17:36

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social There is a lot into this. I will take some time to read this carefully. Congratulations for your dedication.

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@shaulawalko@sfba.social 2025-11-14 17:40

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thank you! 🤗

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@morenonatural@todon.nl 2025-11-14 18:17

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social I have a few details important to narrative purposes to point out , but they are inconsequential to both the noticeable thoroughness of research done, and the benefit of discussing these things

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@draNgNon@hachyderm.io 2025-11-14 18:29

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social just to be clear, you are effectively making an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) available to us as a wonderful gift? since it's been edited by professional people, you aren't looking for your Fediverse fans to give you feedbacks since that's all done. Right? (separately, I was talking to a friend not on Fedi about how she is turning someone's personal memoirs into an epub so I linked your post to her. She had been describing the gotchas as font choices and page breaks so it's not as simple as just running a pdf through a software tool.)

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@slesh@theblower.au 2025-11-15 00:12

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social If your ebook production task is creation of an EPUB 3 file for non-commercial distribution without installing anything or grappling with technical EPUB details then your technical staff might be interested in looking at the SEED.html app https://stewarthaines.com/epub

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@bitzero@corteximplant.net 2025-11-15 09:06

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social There’s a lot to study and to like here. Definitely thumbs up. Comments later. If I may.

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@darth_hideout@mas.to 2025-11-15 23:47

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thank you. I don’t see a copyright. Is this CC licensed or public domain?

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@maudenificent@aus.social 2025-11-16 21:52

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social @maudenificent@aus.social thank you!

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@opalideas@mindly.social 2025-12-01 23:21

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Brilliant. I made notes about a couple discussion points that I may expand on later, but my primary one is, How in the world can one push an iceberg into a different current while paddling a lifeboat?

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