Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 81

Well I watched Masters of the Air to the end, with my son, and it was meh.

I suggested to Phil we do a watch along, but he just swore at me.

The main enemy in the film was the British it seems.

The Holocaust was used to justify the bombing, in the last episode. Well it post factum justifies it but nobody was thinking about the Jews when America started planning its bomber fleets in the 1930s. The Norden bombsight, an expensive useless toy, was meant to provide precision bombing. Precision bombing took another 30 years to actually come into practise and 50 years to come into widespread u se. Something the series lies by omission about, instead juxtaposing the evil British doing night bombing. Imprecise British bombing. Which in practise was as precise as American precision day bombing. Though a lot safer for the crews, who were just as brave and skilled as the Americans, but not as doomed by their commanders, who didn’t pursue a myth of precision. The ball bearing raids were exercises in suicide, something the series doesn’t mention. Phil has strong views on the nature of Allied bombing, maybe we should discuss it on our podcast.

Friend of Fallout reviews it:

Another review:

I’m watching Shogun currently:

I recommend the Shogunate channel for history buffs.

Esoterica is my new favorite night listen, its like a D&D podcast but more Jewish (early Christian, early Mid East plus added American protestant fascism) and smarter.

Some Warhammer Nazis

If you need a laugh after that

And more glee

And back to doom

American Carnage, American Bloodbath

At an airfield in Vandalia, Ohio, over the weekend, former president and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump delivered what the Associated Press described as “a profanity-filled version of his usual rally speech” that was dark to the point of being “apocalyptic”; the

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

Automated killing fields

Talking about what idiots miss out on

The Automated Killing Fields

We’ll reach a milestone in warfare this year when the number of drones deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine will outnumber the number of soldiers and vehicles. Drones will be everywhere, turning every moment of exposed movement into a deadly game, a cross between whack-a-mole and cat-and-mouse for individual soldiers and vehicles, while deep strikes on system-critical facilities and cities hundreds of miles in the rear occur daily.

Global Guerrillas

Possibly true

What can change Russia?

History of the Present (fortnight ending Sunday 17 March) How do you tell when an election is not an election? When you know the result in advance. This ‘History of the Present’ bulletin starts wi…

History of the Present

And very sad

Lucky

Fearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills.

Chills, by Lauren Wolfe

Ban Tiktok, but I like the rest

Four unpersuasive arguments against TikTok

Greetings from Read Max HQ! Once again, this week’s newsletter features three shorter blurbs about recent articles or news events. Below you’ll find some thoughts on: The “TikTok ban,” and why one might (or might not) support it; predicting a future for MrBeast; and

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Brian Herbert’s ‘Dune’ books are to sci-fi what Harry Potter is to Kabalah.

Our book is still out

Phil has a new book coming out soon