This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history
When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026
Looks a lot like a centrally planned economy
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The economic principles taught in school aren’t as relevant as hype, connections and total, arbitrary control
My review article - "Institutional Efficacy in a Fragile World Order" - of Jack Watling's latest book, Statecraft, now out in Survival.
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Jack Watling, in his book Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World, seeks to explain the material conditions on which geopolitical competition rests. This depends on an understanding o...
Elon Musk spends months boosting the far right in British politics and fomenting disorder. Boris Johnson’s response - ‘Have you seen the rockets?’
Use of the Terrorism Act is overkill and designed to chill disent but these courtroom antics are very disturbing and could be extended into other areas.
So if you are a juror from now on, assume that the judge will be using harsher sentencing that you expect from now on.
Peter Whitewood
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
H.G.W. Davie
Another piece of British justice under Starmer just got eroded. These people were initially charged under the Terrorism Act, however the Court Case was NOT depicted as Terrorism to the jury. Then a switcheroo back to Terrorism for the harst sentencing.
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I’ve escaped the kids and now here
The British were quite interested in the design of the T-34 tank, since it stood head and shoulders above their own cruisers, also descendants of Christie tanks. #OTD in 1943 a T-34 tank was loaded onto the Empire Portia to be taken to the UK for study. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
Peter Whitewood
Peter Whitewood
H.G.W. Davie
In a report submitted #OTD in 1951, General Gladeon Barnes lamented the losses American light tanks took from the "Russian T-34 heavy tank" in Korea. Indeed, North Korean T-34-85 could indeed easily defeat South Korean Chaffees head to head. #tanks #history #ColdWar #KoreanWar
