The Western Approaches Tactical Unit
Via TheDreadShips on Twitter, the truly awesome story of how a team of young women wargamed anti-U-boat tactics during the Battle of the Atlantic, taught a generation of ASW commanders and ultimately influenced NATO doctrine.
We were told that American exceptionalism and individualism would save us, that free thought and the open marketplace of ideas would naturally and inevitably drive progress forward. We were told to vote with our wallets and at the ballots; to line up for hours so that we could stave off fascism and terror, just so we could get sneering neoliberalism and technocracy in its place. It has become more and more difficult not to feel detached and powerless in the face of the massive systems and processes which have total control over our lives.
This state of affairs, which plagues Americans and, in another form, the Polish developers of Outriders , finds ready reflection in the world they’ve created.
One long Twitter thread of Far Side comics.
Some unexpected Metal Gear Solid today.
https://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article251004169.html
We’ve all done a bad tweet, but not $2.5 billion bad.
Worth it for the intro alone.
