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February 22, 2021: Annie Jacobsen, author, "First Platoon"
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Tonight: Annie Jacobsen, author, "First Platoon"
Links:
• First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance, by Annie Jacobsen
• @AnnieJacobsen (Twitter)
• AnnieJacobsen.com (author site)
Links:
• Techtonic reading list, from listener Cris: a chronological list of the books featured on past shows.
• Re the consequences of mis-identification (unintentional or possibly intentional), here's past guest Jack Poulson commenting (Feb 16) on the recent Palantir Q4 earnings call:
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Annie Jacobsen discusses her book "First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance" | ||||||||||
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KILN |
Oceantumblers
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Listener comments!
The Techgin is poured, and from the look of today's topic, we're gonna need it!
I might be cooking during parts of the show, but I will be listening. Who could ear-look away?!
Doug, what kind of cider?
Hiya Handy, DiL!!
Oh - this thing I'm feeling is that Future Shock I used to hear about...
tl;dr: Don't take the coffee the cop offers you!
I’ll get my coat...
Jesus! War is the enemy of all common people everywhere! Horrible horrible war.
Panopticon concept coined by Foucault
also timid greetings Mark and folks. this whole subject turns my stomach (defense spending *and* dystopian present).
...nothing new there...
But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on--not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.
The Vietnam war 1954-1975 Cruel horrible war. Why? Why!
...then the Democratic Party 'has to' show it is 'Patriotic' too by being Militaristic. Military spending in the USA is the largest thing the human race has ever engaged in. Is this for Peace?
we will live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I choose brotherhood. <3
Hey, Tech pals, we're all wearing masks. Carry paint along, and if you happen to notice an Amazon Ring, well ... nature abhors an identity vacuum.
This has been catastrophic enuff w/ guns & standard soldier equipment
- but here is the tale of A.I. involved in the same...
Bedtime for me, night all.