You should read - Apr 1
Pulling together this week's list, I realized I need to seek out and share more joyful stuff to counterbalance to all the sturm und drang umbrage. Nevertheless, here's what you should read for Internet Jackass Day.
World War Three
- War with Russia? Finland has a plan for that (Financial Times)
- The power of symbols and why it was so easy for Russia to ruin the letter Z (Fast Company)
- Dubai throws open the doors for the rich Russians escaping sanctions (The Guardian)
- Legion of the damned: Inside Ukraine’s army of misfits, veterans, and war tourists in the fight against Russia (Task & Purpose)
- Next year in Kyiv? (Religion News)
Fascinating look at the role of Orthodox Christianity's history and competing sects in the Russia-Ukraine war. Likely entirely overlooked by people like me who have little to no exposure to the non-Protestant, non-Catholic Christian world. - Why Russia’s military is bogged down by logistics in Ukraine (Washington Post - sorry, paywalled)
- Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom (Bill McKibben)
Our Putsch
- Petition: Impeach Justice Thomas Now (Resistbot)
Resistbot makes it dead-easy to contact your elected officials at both the national and state levels. Use Twitter, Telegram, Apple Messages, or SMS. You really have no excuse not to make your views known. Speak up! - Ginni Thomas Is a Total QAnon Fangirl, She Revealed in Texts to Mark Meadows (Vice)
- Refusing to Prosecute Trump Is a Political Act (Washington Monthly)
Collected Ephemera
- How to type the 'é' in Pokémon and other accent marks on Mac and PC (Input)
- Etsy sellers will go on strike in April and want customers to boycott (The Verge)
- Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments (Atlas Obscura)
- Good Place Creator Michael Schur Wonders: What Makes Someone Good or Bad? (Literary Hub)
- In ‘social-emotional learning,’ right sees more critical race theory (Washington Post - sorry, paywalled)
- Watchdog Group Publishes Encyclopedia of All the Nasty Things Big Tech Has Done (Gizmodo)
- The Infinite Exploitation Of Cryptocurrency (Ed Zitron's "Where's Your Ed At")
- Column: That big tech exodus out of California turns out to be a bust (Los Angeles Times)
Threads of Note
In many tapped phone calls between Russian soldiers and their relatives (Russians steal UKR mobile phones, use them, SBU taps) they tell same story: how rich Ukraine is, how much they have looted, and how cool ppl lived here. Some saw asphalt and street lights for the fist time.
— Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny) March 28, 2022
Starting a thread after checking in with my family in Ukraine. Please read and consider sharing.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 27, 2022
The Human Face of Putin’s War in Ukraine: My Family in Chernihiv.
I see three plausible scenarios for the Russian future:
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 28, 2022
1. North Korea
2. Imperial Reboot
3. Jubilee
Since Ukraine is resolved to fight, the choice of a Russian historical track ultimately depends upon the resolve of the West. Today I'll outline the North Korea scenario 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Mi0yhMDFBI
How is the war in Ukraine going? Today they confirmed the death of Russian General Major Suhovetsky. He's unsurprisingly a paratrooper. So let's discuss the role of paratroopers in Russian military doctrine. That'll shed a light on the course of this war and why Russia lost it🧵 pic.twitter.com/aIWsikgFnO
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 3, 2022
How do blind people figure what kind of dollar they're being handling? After all, aren't $1 and a $20 bills all the same size? You may be surprised to know that every major currency issuer in the developed world has found a way to solve this problem—except the US. (1/5) pic.twitter.com/DvVK8d2g9k
— M. Nolan Gray (@mnolangray) March 31, 2022
Boris Nemtsov was Russia’s much loved Putin political critic & anti-corruption crusader. Gunned down in Feb 2015 in the shadow of the Kremlin on the eve of addressing a massive peaceful Moscow protest against Putin & just before releasing a major report on Putin’s war in Ukraine.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 31, 2022