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from my link log —
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all
saved 2026-03-04

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire

Ukraine Reforms Tracker Weekly — Issue 44: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/ukraine-reforms-tracker-weekly-issue.html

"Its authors — some of the world’s best intelligence-gatherers, who contributed thousands of their own photos — kept the curated database updated and online for public use at no charge."
Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

Farewell to the CIA World Factbook, a reference manual now gone under Trump
The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries. The end came on Feb. 4 in a “fond farewell” post from the spy agency. The CIA says the decision reflects an agency whose core mission has changed over the years. Factbook fans say they'll miss the trusted reference point that had its origins in World War II-era intelligence work. It went public in 1975 and bec…

The BBC suggests opening iPlayer to other public broadcasters to "help ensure the UK retains a streaming platform that competes with global services" (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-suggests-licence-fee-reform…

BBC Says iPlayer Could Host Rival Broadcasters As Corporation Sets Out Charter Renewal Funding Vision
The BBC has suggested license fee reform and said iPlayer could host ITVX and Channel 4 in its charter renewal response document.

Besser so? 🤔
#Rundfunk

Impeachment As A Referendum On The Iran Fiasco (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/impeachment-as-a-referendum-on-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p49#a260406p49

Government by #billionaires for billionaires
BBC News - #Reform leads other parties in donations ahead of May elections
https://www.

Get to know the under-the-radar leaders of a movement that helped organize January 6
and continues to pose a threat to American democracy
https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/02/meet-top-24-leaders-new-apostolic-reformation-us

Reforms Underway in Lyut Assault Brigade: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/reforms-underway-in-lyut-assault.html

Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …

Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.