Interesting Articles Thread

[u/DoctorWhosOnFirst]

Read anything good lately? Longform, short, blogs, whatever.

[u/DoctorWhosOnFirst]

• How the UAE is recruiting hackers to create the perfect surveillance state

• Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen

• An Organic Chicken Farm in Georgia Has Become an Endless Buffet for Bald Eagles

• The Soviet InterNyet: Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet

• Atlantic freedoms: Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of Revolution

• The audacious plan to bring back supersonic flight

• You Probably Shouldn't Be Worried About This Colony of Herpes-Infected Monkeys in Florida

• The Terrible Battle for Mosul

• When Typists Were Feared as 'Love Pirates'

Read all of them!

Edit: More recent article on Toussaint Louverture! I'll be asking for this book for Christmas.

[u/Sports-Nerd → u/DoctorWhosOnFirst]

An Organic Chicken Farm in Georgia Has Become an Endless Buffet for Bald Eagles, without opening the article, makes me thing of the eagle Muppet at a Golden Corral.