As long as I’m posting about very unfortunately overlooked stories about the Polish cryptanalysts of WWII who were the first to break the Nazi Enigma in the early 1930s… I should also mention here that Spanish cryptanalysts collaborated with the Poles yet are even lesser known. I just noticed that an hour-long 2019 documentary about … Continue reading “Equipo D” Documentary: Spanish Republican Cryptanalysts Who Broke the Nazi Enigma →

I thought it interesting that an April 16, 1966 edition of the New Yorker offered this sarcasm about the American automobile industry. “Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile” by Ralph Nader was first published in 1965.

I’ve already written about Tesla extensively using the white supremacist symbol 88 in their marketing material. It’s very strange to me that people don’t see the company shouting the white supremacist tag 88 (“Heil Hitler”) all over the place as being obvious enough evidence of Nazism. So here’s yet another example from Tesla that I … Continue reading Tesla Cyberhammer Is Yet Another Nazi Dog Whistle →

One writer in 2021 framed the danger of “pro-life” human trafficking groups as a lesson from U.S. history. We’ve been here before, of course—most recently in the decades from 1945 to 1973, now known as the “Baby Scoop” era, when more than 1.5 million pregnant girls and women in the U.S. were sent away to … Continue reading Babies For Sale: Abortion Bans Fueled by Groups That Profit From Human Trafficking →