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28 Jan 2025 15 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
New series. 200 battles. 2,000 years of history. Let's get to it. ROME'S FOUNDING LEGEND PRINCE AENEAS According to legend, the foundation date for what would become “The Eternal City” is the 21st of April, 753 BC. In their own legends, Romans...
28 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "How Chinese Apps Like TikTok Hook U.S. Users With Shopping and Entertainment Algorithms," Tiffany Ap and Kinling Lo, writing for Rest of World, explore how Chinese social media platforms such as TikTok, Xiaohongshu, and Lemon8 dominate user...
28 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
'Ello again. Still alive. Since I don't have proper access to my Greek history sources right now, I thought I'd make an informal start on Roman history. I've also been between jobs and even between houses right now, so things are a little funny in...
28 Jan 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "The Deep and Dangerous Roots of Trump's Foreign Policy," published in Persuasion on January 27, 2025, Matt Johnson critiques Donald Trump's approach to international relations during his second term. Johnson characterizes Trump's foreign pol...
27 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z5fBgd6daU1W0efw As of January 25, there were 3 more new fires in Los Angeles: one was extinguished immediately, but its location was very alarming, it was again near the 405 highway (a large an...
27 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "Trump's Obscene January 6 Pardons Will Live in Infamy," published in The UnPopulist on January 24, 2025, Walter Olson critiques Donald Trump's mass pardons of individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol riots. Olson argues that these pardo...
27 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "The Trumps Want You to Buy Their Meme Coins, but History Should Make Us Cautious About the Hype" by Emmanuel Mogaji, published in The Conversation, the author critiques the speculative and risky nature of Donald Trump's $Trump coin and Melan...
27 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments ROcrypton
I will refer to the book by its title in my language which is "The Six Lessons" but the original title in the United States is "Liberalism: in the Classical Tradition" Last year I was in charge of picking up my mother from work, and many times wh...
26 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx
The abrupt removal of more than a dozen inspectors general reveals a world in which the very mechanisms designed to eradicate corruption fall under threat. This scenario underscores a paradox, although the president’s stated goal was to cut down on...
25 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "Elon Musk: A Chinese Puppet?" published in The Globalist, George R. Tyler critiques Elon Musk's close business ties with China and examines their implications for U.S. national security, global politics, and democratic accountability. Tyler...
