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Collapsing An Empire: The Silk Road Takedown

22 Apr 2024 8 minute read 6 comments Investigator515

The End of the World’s First Darkweb Market. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack. Over the last few months, we’ve taken a deep dive into the dark web, by looking at onion routing and the history of tor, while next...

Aristotle and Phyllis. Women's power

20 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ZhadYrLEd3Gb4myL The story of Aristotle and Phyllis is rarely told today, but it was extremely popular in the Middle Ages.Phyllis rode Aristotle here, there and everywhere, from the backs of chu...

Interesting notes about England and the British

20 Apr 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ZhbEYcwNrx0KeiO1 1. England is a very secular country, which makes it similar to the countries of Northern Europe: the Scandinavians and the Netherlands.The absence of religious pressure is felt...

The main feature of our state

16 Apr 2024 11 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Zg6hMh9qnUeeuQjt The publication has been changed and edited to avoid offense from vulnerable patriots of our great fatherland. Thanks to censorship in a free totalitarian state for a powerful g...

Beginning of the End. Before destruction

14 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Posting on my Zen blog in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/Zg0M9S03Gwg14yiD Recently I took the trouble to review children's cartoons again. Now Soviet. The turning point began in the 70s. These are generally significant years, showing that even then the inf...

What The Tech?! Lithium Ion Batteries

14 Apr 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Li-po batteries ushered in a new era of efficient electronics If you’re an 80s kid, or of the ’90s persuasion then you probably remember the days of the chunky, nickel-metal hydride batteries that used to power some of the older gadgets way back when...

The root cause of military conflicts

13 Apr 2024 5 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on my Zen blog https://dzen.ru/a/ZgkSjEYY0TSS7D6B The root cause of most military conflicts is precisely the economic factor, and ethnic, religious and others are just a pretext. Any formulations with primordially Russian terr...

Notes about Walter Lippman and democracy

8 Apr 2024 1 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic

    Walter Lippmann's famous book, "Public Opinion" offers important insights into the complex relationship between democracy, media, human psychology, and the construction of reality. Lippmann's exploration is about the mechanisms through which publ...

Castles and Fortifications (Pt. IV)

5 Apr 2024 11 minute read 4 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Article) Castles take time to build and are often developed in phases, with some sections being constructed by a given monarch, and others, added later under a different landlord. Just like castles and fortifications, writing my article...

Hayek as OG cryptonomist?

1 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

Friedrich Hayek's "Denationalization of Money" is a seminal work in monetary theory, and its ideas are significantly relevant to the world of cryptocurrencies. Published in 1976, Hayek's book proposes a radical departure from the traditional governme...