Fall of Civilizations Podcast 6. Easter Island
I discovered this podcast during lockdown and found the combination of cultivated speech patterns & inevitable societal breakdown oddly soothing. This episode, however, is utterly depressing.
Category: Links
Links I liked
Autocracies like Russia end in these three ways – The Washington Post
Very good and rather sobering article by Kathryn Stoner on what is likely to happen after Putin
What makes for a successful conference? | The Duck of Minerva
These are all good points
Downtime is not an option – meet the stewards of the cloud | Aeon Essays
You, a quantitative researcher, may feel a certain affinity towards computers and, by extension, the cloud. You’re wrong. For a true geek-out, an ethnographic approach is required.
Hungary 2022 – how biased an electoral map? | Fruits and Votes
Matthew Shuggart on Orban’s manipulation of the electoral system: "Unlike in Poland, the role of the electoral system in the installation of this government has been seemingly fairly minimal"
Wolf attacks predict … far-right voting? – Erik Gahner Larsen
You may have heard about this paper that links wolf attacks to #AfD voting in 🇩🇪. Looks a bit odd? Sure does. Here’s a forensic takedown by Erik Gahner Larsen
Rainbow Murray on the French elections
Just three weeks until the French legislative elections. Get in the mood by listening to this excellent Radikaal Podcast episode with Rainbow Murray.
Food for thought
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action