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“Strange Fruit” in Spain Today: When Politics Shrugs, Hate Finds an Audience

16 Feb 2026 4 minute read 0 comments floc1960

A cultural essay on memory, misinformation, and the stories we choose to believe Listen (YouTube): Billie Holiday – “Strange Fruit” (1939) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGAMjwr_j8 1) The Song That Refused to Look Away Some songs don’t entertain....

What The Tech?! LIDAR

16 Feb 2026 4 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

LIDAR would help us to map and navigate the world more effectively. We’ve made the point before that during times of conflict, technology evolves thanks to the military doing military things. Military needs would give us canned food, radar, portable...

Love and Leopold

15 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

Trevor Getz makes some heavy claims about Leopold in his article about the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, which was convened by said Leopold. He writes that: "The immediate reason for the Berlin Conference was the jealousy of the king of a small cou...

Five Stories Shaping the World Today

14 Feb 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty

A quick hello before diving in. The world did not slow down today just because the calendar says its the weekend. From fragile ceasefires to courtroom dramas and a democracy trying to reboot itself, there is a lot happening at once. So let’s walk thr...

Where does fascism begin?

14 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aYwz5CIFzEodVhxW Please support us, like-minded people, join the telegram channel https://t.me/shipshard Where does fascism begin?Apparently with fascist thinking.Here, yesterday, one (...) He t...

Does it make sense to convince pro-military citizens?

14 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aYwvG_PZHUOb5OGo Please support us, like-minded people, join the telegram channel https://t.me/shipshard We all know that there were people in Nazi Germany who were against the war. Someone was...

Silent Wars: The Acoustic Kitty

13 Feb 2026 4 minute read 4 comments Investigator515

The sixties were apparently a crazy time. Aviation would go through rapid iterations and changes, while overall, big money would be thrown at Cold War projects in what was seen to be a race for survival. One of the biggest beneficiaries of said money...

We are Generation X. The Middle-earth generation.

12 Feb 2026 2 minute read 1 comment NietzscheElettrico

My friend… listen to me for a moment.   Not the way you listen to a speech. But the way you listen to something you have always known.   For far too long we have waited. Waited for something to change. Waited for the system to correct itself. Waited...

Day 5: The Screen-Staring Trap — While You Watched Candles, Gold Quietly Doubled

12 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments floc1960

A cold shower for the always-online crypto trader. Are you tired of being a slave to the 1-minute chart? For the last few years, the crypto crowd has sold a dream: ‘Bitcoin is the new gold.’ They mocked gold as something for ‘boomers.’ They spent ni...

Neural network in an interview with a German soldier from the time of Hitler

12 Feb 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aYtChcI1iDpb6sjZ Please support me, like-minded people, join the telegram channel https://t.me/shipshard Let's ask the neural network to take as a basis the preserved letters, diaries, and memoi...