Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 84 and 85

Here is what I’ve been working on. Transcriptions of our episodes on the Russian Way of War, mostly from Adjutant’s Lounge.

Re-upload of Russian Way of War 1 from 3 March 2022

I’ve been working on transcribing, as in checking what the AI did, one thing it can do unlike say law or war, our old podcasts. All have been transcribed. Here’s the first episode from Adjutants Lounge, all rights are Ben and Phil. Half an hour for everybody, the rest for paid subscribers. Might release for free to everybody in future, might not.

FalloutDustin Du Cane

Woke diplomats

Reforming the Foreign Office

If you read media descriptions of the recently released report The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to International Affairs, you could reasonably conclude that its main message is about tackling a sense that the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is “elitist”.

Not all doom

Sweden and its woke foreign policy, ahaha.

Money money money

How do British political parties get funded? What does that money buy? With only a few weeks to go until the local elections and in a year of a general election I spoke to Seth Thevoz, political and investigative journalist, about how parties are funded.

Speaking of diplomats

A great podcast series and now relevant as the world experiences trauma because people in the Middle East can’t get along and world powers meddle badly.

1956 now enters its second season, and we are confronted with several pressing questions. How did the British, French, Israelis and Americans become involved in Egypt, and how did these events affect what was ongoing in Hungary? The incredible spectacle of these two simultaneous crises, both caused by very different forces, and hosting very different characters, is what we have to examine next, so I hope you'll join me as we introduce the Suez Crisis - perhaps the greatest error of modern Britain until the decision to Brexit!

LazerPig interview

I love wrestling but not death match wrestling!

On this edition of Parallax Views, we delve into the controversial world of deathmatch wrestling with deathmatch wrestler Mike Krueger. For those unfamiliar with deathmatch wrestling, it is by far the most extreme variant of professional wrestling imaginable. When watching a deathmatch promotion like Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), Underground Empire Wrestling (UEW), or any number of others similar promotions you can expect to see things that you'd never see in a mainstream pro wrestling promotion like WWE. This includes wrestler diving off balconies into glass, wrestler being thrown into flaming tables, and competitors using objects like light tubes and barbed wire bats as weapons. It is, in other words, the "outlaw" form of pro wrestling that is often heavily criticized for it's blood-n-guts gruesomeness.

A Youtube series I’m getting into that isn’t as depressing and over-produced as Fall of Civilizations

Recommended.

Shout out to Martin D.B. Brown

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Junglist soldiers

Horror in space

What created the strongest materials in the universe? What is it like inside of a white dwarf or neutron star? Matt Caplan is a professor of physics at Illinois State University. He received his bachelors from the University of Virginia and PhD from Indiana University- his thesis work was recognized with the 2018 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society.

Not all doom

Cultivating agency

This is the second post in a little series in which I’m trying to answer an admittedly silly question: What would it take for life in the year 2100 to be unimaginably better than life in the year 2000? It’s a reductive and over-ambitious question, I know, so I’m not trying to give a fully rounded answer covering every aspect of social change.

Future State

Reading this

Recommended as are his other books

Lots of books to read here

Readers recommend "apocalyptic systems thrillers" and an "American giallo" movie for fans of 'Road House'

Greetings from Read Max HQ, and welcome to our weekly roundup column, in which I pick out some worthwhile and often overlooked books, articles, movies, and music to recommend to paying subscribers. For this week’s SPECIAL ECLIPSE EDITION round-up, I’ve got:

Read Max

A future read

08.04.2024 / A Kind of Refugee is a book!

Today marks the official publication of my (first!) book, A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine, in the Ukrainian Voices series, collected by Andreas Umland and published by ibidem Press. This is a momentous event, and I thank *you*, dear readers, for your steadfast support and attention. To read how I thank you in the …

a Kind of Refugee

Our book is still out

Phil has a new book coming out soon