@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-08 20:51:39
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-08 20:51:39
@cjust@infosec.exchange2025-11-09 17:58:55
I think that it's important to remember that in these days of . . . gestures vaguely at . . . everything . . . that there is historical precedent for having some hope that things will get better.
On November 9, 1989:
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal moment in history that symbolized the end of Cold War-era division and repression in Europe; it led directly to the reunification of Germany and inspired a wave of democratic movements across E…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-05 22:03:19
Cold, drones, shelling and darkness: how Ukrainian servicemen can survive where it seems impossible: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/cold-drones-shelling-and-darkness.html
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-12-05 19:17:40
I think the future will see Cold War Steve as the great chronicler of our age, sort of like a 21st century Hogarth. Also: FIFA, what are you thinking???
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-04 11:44:21
“They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them.
Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile.
We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief.”
– @…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-10-25 12:43:00
The icy cold war America is busy losing
https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2025/10/16/the-icy-cold-war-america-is-busy-losing
From The Economist
@seav@en.osm.town2025-10-18 14:55:28
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 00:45:22
Fundamentalist Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey
doesn’t see empathy as a failure of evolution (like Elon Musk does).
As a creationist who denies the scientific reality of prehistoric dinosaurs,
she doesn’t even believe in evolution.
Stuckey has made it her mission to rewrite the teachings of Jesus so that her savior is a harsh disciplinarian
whose “love” has little to do with empathy.
Stuckey’s book
“Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit C…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-02 12:55:32
Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (Dan Wang)
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-05 13:35:07
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Cold War Kids:
🎵 Drive Desperate
#ColdWarKids
https://open.spotify.com/track/0tvnwVLYmxltTClAgDQ6iZ
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-29 05:15:52
Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power (Michael McFaul/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-cold-war-alliances/684715/?gift=47TjPNd1fvywdLyCkprj-DIs6wmsGj4QJbq3pZpn2Ww&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p3#a251029p3
@axbom@axbom.me2026-01-02 10:27:27
"The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own."
– Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (published January 1, 1999).
Tell me this is not exactly what tech companies are doing. And UX, my own industry, has a lot to answer for.
– Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (published January 1, 1999).
Tell me this is not exactly what tech companies are doing. And UX, my own industry, has a lot to answer for.
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-04 14:23:57
Russian strikes on Kherson heating plant leave over 40,000 residents in the cold: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/russian-strikes-on-kherson-heating.html
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 16:54:25
Three powerful businessmen
—two Americans and a Russian
—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks.
They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold
—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.
…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 23:49:06
Content warning: Discussion of rape in Le Guin's fiction
Just finished "Orsinian Tales" by Ursula K Le Guin. It's... good, but not nearly as anarchist as a lot of her other work. These are short fiction stories weaving mostly through a fictional Eastern European country during the cold war, although some stretch farther back into history.
As typical for Le Guin a bunch of male protagonists, and a few parts that might seem to excuse sexual assault, which I've always found an odd thing in Le Guin's work (the rape in "The Dispossessed" bothered me too; the lack of strong female characters in "A Wizard of Earthsea" also sticks out to me). On the other hand, I've read from an interview that she wrote "Earthsea" absolutely knowing her audience (teenage boys) and intentionally writing something that would sell, which speaks to true mastery of her craft (I think the opening of "The Word for World is Forest" demonstrates what an expert can do wielding an intimate understanding of pulp science fiction tropes with intent, for example).
In any case, she writes sublime similes and sparse characters who nevertheless seem to embody deep wisdom about the human condition. I feel that often enough just a few words or sentences in a story bear forth hefty wisdom while around them Le Guin constructs something like an austere painting in muted tones, full of rich details that one can easily miss.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-31 04:27:53
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Cold War Kids:
🎵 Hang Me Up To Dry
#ColdWarKids
https://rustycage.bandcamp.com/track/hang-me-up-to-dry-cold-war-kids
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IXRdLsQib8m0hBbQpe7T8
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-26 02:50:02
In one of his wildest moves to date, Trump is now offering companies access to plutonium from America’s arsenal of cold war nuclear missiles.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes
— a little under 42,000 pounds
— of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipmen…
