@dymaxion 🔗 https://infosec.exchange/users/dymaxion/statuses/109972680527742347 – I’ve talked about this in smaller contexts, but I haven’t found any traction and time is getting short. When the Nazis passed the enabling laws for the book burning on April 8th, 1933 — exactly 90 years ago in 34 days — the first thing they burnt, the same day, were the archives of the largest trans and gay research institute in the world. When they say now that we didn’t exist until after the war, the only reason they can get away with it is that they burned all the accumulated evidence. https://assemblag.es/@hugo/109972631252644527

Well, here’s a fun read.

https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/manhattan-advice-and-variations

Brilliant.

@MarkHoltom 🔗 https://mastodonapp.uk/users/MarkHoltom/statuses/109943326577512522 – That didn’t take long.

https://popular.info/p/is-it-ok-to-be-white

I thought this part was pretty funny:

There’s a lot going on in this sentence:

«In Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere, the West’s geopolitical adversaries are calculating whether the U.S. and its allies have the stamina and cohesion to defend the rules-based international order that has benefited the West for decades.»

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-is-the-wests-war-now-5d468bdb?st=to3uetiyp76sxyw&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

(Normally, WSJ’s opinion pieces are crap, but (a) I’m not sure this really is opinion, and (b) I like it, so there.)

All eyes on Nigeria for the moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/nigeria-election-millions-go-to-the-polls-in-crucial-bellwether-vote

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/russia-ukraine-war-one-year-national-identity/673192/?utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2023-02-24T10%3A30%3A56&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social

So, this is a nice feel-good article, but here’s my take: China is moving to make Russia a client state. Russian gas and oil (and maybe resources from the Donbas) will flow to China. Big geopolitical move for China. Ukraine will wind up as yet another frozen conflict. The US will lose interest. (France is talking surrender, of course.) The “non-aligned” world will just sit this out.

I’d love to see Ukraine recover everything (they could long-term-lease Sevastopol to Russia, maybe), but once China starts supplying weapons to Russia, Ukraine will make no more progress unless the West really steps up, and I just don’t see that happening.

This would have gone better if we’d put heavy weapons in the pipeline sooner, but of course we didn’t.

It might even be too late for Taiwan, unless they get serious really fast about becoming a porcupine.

If the West wakes up (and maybe we are; the peace dividend is over), we’ll be entering another cold war, which is sad because war is wasteful, but the alternative is the spread of corrupt, authoritarian governments that abuse humans.

I know it’s popular to say that the US is that now, but: no. (Not yet, anyway.)

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-rails-un-move-ukraine-china-readies-position-paper-2023-02-22/

Well… Russia had “little green men” in the Donbas. Maybe we should, too. As Ukraine runs low on sheer personnel, maybe the West should start creating laws that shelter “little blue men” (you heard it here first) and their families.