Recent content by Kumerica

Lived in Japan for a few years a decade+ ago. Never made it to Kanazawa—I’d heard great things about the gardens, but it was always somewhat out of the way for me (I was in the Kansai region). That said, Hiroshima is an exceptional and profound visit. Plus, with Hiroshima you’re within easy...

Putin lays out his demands. I don’t see a lot of this happening. And if I were Zelenskey, I wouldn’t meet Putin without a Hazmat suit.

Apologies. It’s a great interview, and I didn’t want y’all to miss out due to paywalls, etc.

Good interview by Julia Ioffe and a member of Biden’s Russia team when he was VP.. Puck News needs a subscription, so I copy and pasted the interview below. Inside Biden’s Ukraine War Room Joe Biden’s former Ukraine advisor reveals how the White House assesses Putin’s military objectives, his...

You specifically said ISPs, and I want to emphasize that while end-user devices will lean wireless (as they mostly already do), the ISPs themselves will actually require more robust cabling and more of it. The massive expansion of Iot devices we’ve already seen and the 25 billion coming down the...

Global Network Worker: [On his radio] Yeah, Central?  Manager: Yeah?  Global Network Worker: This is Walt, down at Nakatomi. Listen, would it be possible for you to turn off Internet Grid 2-12?  Manager: Are you crazy?  Dwayne T. Robinson: [Quietly in the background] Maybe I should call the...

In our lifetime, fiber/copper will always need to be in our infrastructure—in the walls of our homes, offices, our data centers, and in the ground—to provide high-speed internet (or slow internet, for that matter). And increasingly more phone plans are making hotspot capabilities a line-item...

Powerful read by a Ukrainian novelist.

To be fair, I don’t think he predicted Putin would set off a nuke, so much as suggest that would be Putin’s best play to remain in power.

Are they allowed to HAVE vision?

So much great stuff has been shared here (thank you), I’m not sure if this has made its way: A great interview between David Remnick and Soviet/Russian historian Steve Kotkin. New Yorker interview.

BBC revives shortwave radio dispatches in Ukraine, and draws ire of Russia.

Watched that this morning. Glorious. 🤣

Putin on tv right now (BBC World) addressing his nation. Lots of ridiculous claim making.

And let’s not forget that Putin rose to power, allegedly, on the wings of a possible false flag operation.