By Rebecca Jackson and Steve Coll
The world has moved on since Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, went to prison two years ago. “What the fuck is AI?” he asked us in a recent email – his first interview with the mainstream press since he was jailed. “How the fuck has HBO completed two full seasons of a ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off without me knowing about it?!?”
At the federal correctional institution in Manchester, Kentucky, he does his best to keep up: he watches CNN in the mornings, reads the Wall Street Journal at lunch and switches on ABC’s flagship news programme at night. He has adopted an intense regimen of reading, tackling several books simultaneously. Recently he was absorbed by Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, an account of DARPA, the Pentagon’s technology incubator, and “Dune”, a seminal sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert.
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