The United States is gradually advancing its efforts in the field of expanding awareness about codebreakers and the origins of modern computing, akin to the remarkable work undertaken by historians at Bletchley Park in England. An article featured in DCist sheds light on significant revelations associated with “Building E on the Foreign Service Institute’s leafy … Continue reading The Black Women of Arlington Hall Who Kept Tabs on American Companies Doing Business With Nazis→
An impressively astute book review has been published on Defector. He welcomes the return of a space race, not between rival superpowers, but between capitalists indulging in healthy competition “like that of the railway barons a century earlier.” This is fatuous in a familiar way, but also wrong: The American railway boom was 150 years … Continue reading Fatuous Howler: Elon Musk Biography by Isaacson “misleading and even flat wrong”→
I’ve been asked more and more to review eBikes coming online, so in the interest of time here’s a quick comparison of two that caught my eye: QuietKat Lynx (cafe moto) — $3,999 Motor: 1000W 2 Speed Hub Drive (Variable Power Output) Range: 63mi Battery: 20Ah/48V/960Wh Power: 83Nm Torque/1440 Peak Max load: 300lbs Top Speed: … Continue reading 2023 Hot eBike Bakeoff: QuietKat Lynx vs Talaria xXx→
First, let’s just get out of the way that white South African children exposed to horribly racist Apartheid lies were raised to believe Black people should never be allowed to keep private thoughts. Inside South Africa, riots, boycotts, and protests by black South Africans against white rule had occurred since the inception of independent white … Continue reading Neuralink “Exploration” Based on Apartheid Torture of Captives to Death→