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Revanchism - Wikipedia
Revanchism - Wikipedia
Revanchism is the political manifestation of the will to reverse the territorial losses which are incurred by a country, frequently after a war or after a social movement. As a term, revanchism originated in 1870s France in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War among nationalists who wanted to avenge the French defeat and reclaim the lost territories of Alsace-Lorraine.
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Revanchism - Wikipedia
The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It)
The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It)
Maroussia Lévesque considers "analog privilege" and what understanding it can tell us about the detrimental effects of AI systems.
·techpolicy.press·
The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It)
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]
·defector.com·
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
On Journalism and Principles
On Journalism and Principles
Thirteenth in the News Commons series. I grabbed the spottedhawk.org domain after hearing Garrison Keilor read this passage from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself over Leo Kottke improvising on g…
·doc.searls.com·
On Journalism and Principles
Wait, Kamala Harris owns a gun?
Wait, Kamala Harris owns a gun?
The vice president says she is a gun owner. Here’s why it shouldn’t be a surprise.
·vox.com·
Wait, Kamala Harris owns a gun?
Beatles or Stones? - Believer Magazine
Beatles or Stones? - Believer Magazine
Lovable Mop-top Orgy Participants On July 26, 1968, Mick Jagger flew from Los Angeles to London for a birthday party thrown in his honor at a hip new Moroccan-style bar called the Vesuvio Club—“one of the best clubs London has ever seen,” remembered proprietor Tony Sanchez. Under black lights and beautiful tapestries, some of London’s […]
·thebeliever.net·
Beatles or Stones? - Believer Magazine
Populist Candidates in Deep-Red States
Populist Candidates in Deep-Red States
A labor-forward, no-nonsense style of Democratic campaigning is emerging in the Plains and Midwest. It’s unclear if it’ll actually work.
·prospect.org·
Populist Candidates in Deep-Red States