Longform Journalism Recs

[huja]

Enjoying browsing content found through a link posted in the comments ... good stuff. Things finance bros do all the time to hype their product of the day.

https://callingbullshit.org/tools/to...ding_axes.html

Watching:

https://callingbullshit.org/videos.html

I have a friend who is a statistician and has published a couple of books and has a well-regarded blog, teaches at an Ivy League, etc. His general thesis is that raw numbers/data can be made to support just about anything.

https://junkcharts.typepad.com/

[Elefant&Castle]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/a...paign=DM468369

[huja]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/a...paign=DM468369

I visited the DMZ in 2012 IIRC. It was bizarre how the S. Korean side was set up like the world's most somber amusement park. You could even tour the discovered secret tunnels that the N. Koreans dug to move soldiers into the South. Very unsettling tourist attraction.

Indeed South Koreans are so sanguine nowadays that parts of the DMZ near Seoul have become major tourist attractions. . . There is even a small funfair, which seems bizarre, but Kathy reckons that South Korea’s government wants to show its people the stark reality of the DMZ to bolster diminishing public support for huge military budgets, national service and reunification. ‘The tourists see the security threat that South Korea still faces, and the tragedy of the division, in a very visceral way,’ she explains. They are certainly moved.

[Elefant&Castle]

You could even tour the discovered secret tunnels that the N. Koreans dug to move soldiers into the South.

Been to Seoul and have heard about the tunnels from friends - but didn't visit myself; they told me some of them were wide enough to drive a tank through.

I also found this quote interesting - didn't realise Hamas had help from North Korea when building the tunnels in Gaza.

and helped Hamas build numerous tunnels into Egypt from the Gaza Strip

[shri]

The order was given at 9:03 a.m.—it was the Slovenian spy chief’s one chance to strike. Inside the hunt for a secret network of sleeper agents.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/sle...mobilewebshare