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Link blog: evangelicalism, conspiracy, trump, qanon
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
QAnon conspiracy has the makings of a new religious movement. Fascinating and worrying.
(tags: conspiracy qanon trump evangelicalism)
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Link blog: Europe, economics, finance, soros
The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound
(tags: banking history economics finance soros erm Europe) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
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Link blog: C, shooting, magic, censorship
post modern C tooling - draft 5
(tags: tools programming C)
‘My ties to England have loosened’: John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit | Books | The Guardian “At 87, le Carré is publishing his 25th novel. He talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spy”
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Link blog: brexit, law, court, boris-johnson
Supreme Court ruling is the natural result of Boris Johnson’s constitutional vandalism | News | The Times Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court ruling: Parliament is the forum for compromise. Boris Johnson tried to circumvent it. So the judges had to make its role explicit.
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Link blog: transcript, 911, hijacking, history
‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’ - POLITICO Magazine Oral history of the events of 9/11. Odd that the USAF doesn’t seem to have the equivalent of the RAF’s QRA fighters (although there’s clearly a lot more country to cover).
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Link blog: Security, hacking, russia
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History | WIRED “It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind.”
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Link blog: university, academia, oxbridge, degree
The great university con: how the British degree lost its value Perverse incentives and grade inflation.
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Link blog: politics, brexit, remain
‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain | Politics | The Guardian Weirdly wants to make “remainist” a thing, but otherwise interesting.
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Link blog: communication, mathematics, entropy, shannon
Information Theory for Intelligent People (a play on the “for Dummies” series).
(tags: entropy communication shannon information mathematics) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
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