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The Cryptocurrency Political Game in the United States: A New Frontier or a Minefield?

23 Sep 2024 5 minute read 2 comments CryptoEntrepreneurs

"Cryptocurrencies are the political game of the 21st century. Those who understand how to manipulate them will have unimaginable power" - John McAfee. In recent times, American politics has witnessed a peculiar phenomenon: the growing influence of c...

Notes about the recent local elections in Bosnia & Herzegovina

21 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR: The upcoming 2024 local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina face serious concerns, including voter fraud, democratic deficits, political manipulation, and foreign interference. With key races in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Mostar, these elections...

Climate change and "colonial territories"

21 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TL;DR: The UN's 2022 Loss and Damage Fund excludes colonial territories, leaving them vulnerable to climate change without adequate support. While these territories suffer from rising sea levels and extreme weather, their administering governments...

A few words about imperial propaganda

20 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Zu2E0RG5-1QvMplX Let's go over the propaganda we're used to a little bit, and consider a couple of questions. I see imperial flags in people's photos, but many don't even understand the meaning...

What, even, are white people?

20 Sep 2024 2 minute read 3 comments Rorschach's Journal

Race, particularly which populations/groups are considered white, is a political construct (as opposed to ethnicity). I knew that much. I also knew that the English (or, if you want to be persnickety, Anglo-Saxons) didn't consider the Irish, Italians...

"They are eating our cats" - Trump is spreading neo-nazi extremists myths

20 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR: Robert Tracinski critiques Donald Trump's political rhetoric, emphasizing his consistent use of fear and xenophobia. Trump's remarks about immigrants and minorities reveal a troubling alignment with white nationalist ideologies, leading to rea...

(AI) democracy development in Taiwan - the future and the challenges

19 Sep 2024 2 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TLDR Audrey Tang envisions a future where AI enhances democracy by improving transparency and citizen participation. Her vision emphasizes safeguarding against cyber threats, fostering participatory democracy through digital platforms, and maintai...

Do We Really Care What Trump Thinks of Crypto?

17 Sep 2024 2 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

There isn't a day that goes by where there's not a story about Donald Trump's attempted forays into the digital value world with another pea-brained venture launching a token, NFT or worse, specially spray-painted gold sneakers. If it wasn't so laugh...

"The politics of blame" among populists as Trump

16 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TLDR A new form of politics, led by figures like Trump and Johnson, embraces blame rather than avoiding it. By provoking controversy and antagonizing opponents, these politicians weaponize blame as a tool for support. To counter this, defenders of...

Conversation at work about this

15 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ZucowkD2VQbZCqOp Just the other day we had a conversation about the SVO at work. A miniature. A colleague at work, Roma. A healthy thirty-eight-year-old organism, having served his term in "Rosi...