“Strategem: Deception and Surprise in War” by Barton Whaley, Center for International Studies MIT, in 1969 offered this historical insight on Page 17 Disinformation was originally a World War I term, having been first applied to the Disinfo…

Here’s some great news from Tulsa. Everyone at the descendant reunion was honoring and remembering the horrific events that happened May 31st and June 1st, 1921, when an angry white mob burned down Greenwood, killing people and destroying homes a…

Prohibition is a perfect parallel to explain the abuse of drugs that Elon Musk denies while displaying all the evidence he is lying – a really important example of how power dynamics work with American drug laws. During Prohibition (1920-1933), w…

One missed form from 2015—submitted late as the couple grieved a stillbirth—is now grounds for family destruction in America. Immigration officials encouraged Kasper Eriksen’s naturalisation for years, never mentioning any missing document until …

A new book explores the pivotal role of humanities scholars in defeating WWII armies overly fixated on STEM. It’s the age-old HUMINT versus SIGINT debate, but in a framing extremely relevant to today’s unfortunate AI race to nowhere good. &…

We already reported on this crash, which was unusually tight-lipped. Now police are beginning to reveal how driverless software may be at fault. A Tesla operating like a ground-to-ground missile, crashed high speed into the back of a van, flipping it a…

Operation Endgame switched into a new gear this week with public takedowns and arrests of the Russian criminals infiltrating Germany. About 50 of the servers neutralized this week were in Germany, the authorities said. “In Germany, investigations…

The recent White House missive about South African white farmers carries an ominous echo from American history. We’ve seen this white nationalist playbook before—and we know exactly where it leads. Wilson’s “America First”: KKK …

Here is some hilariously sharp analysis from the Guardian’s John Crace. Even after nine years, it was still too soon to say the obvious. That Britain had voted to make itself poorer. That Brexiters had radicalised themselves. […] Most Brexi…