East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape

#HackerNews #East_Germany #balloon_escape #history #adventure #escape_story #Cold_War

"The Internet is a Psyop"—We're in Hell >

https://youtu.be/ANr-Iv-hXVc

#video #social_science #counterinsurgency #social_control #computer_science #history #counter_insurgency #resistance #coup_machine #Rand_Corporation #SAGE #Project_Camelot #privacy #Liberation_Movements #civil_rights #The_Cambridge_Project #DARPA #social_programs #internet #USA #ARPANET #intelligence #MIT #Joseph_Carl_Robnett_Licklider #Ithiel_de_Sola_Pool #Jerome_Wiesner #Big_Tech #Simulmatics_Corporation #surveillance #think_tank #cybernetics #the_internet #computing #psyop #spying #war_crimes #tech #US_imperialism
#psy_op #Mind_Control #BackRub #convergence #technology #Students_for_a_Democratic_Society #networks #cold_war #propaganda #Special_Operations_Research_Office #mass_surveillance #USA #psychology #JCR_Licklider #GUI #interactive_computing #AI #data_pooling #psychoacoustics #IPTO #MK_Ultra #social_movements #convergence #cold_war

"World Destruction" by Time Zone >

https://youtu.be/P801hHPNj8M

Vocals – Afrika Bambaataa, John Lydon
Bass, DMX Drum Machine – Bill Laswell
Guitar – Nicky Skopelitis
Synthesizer – Bernie Worrell
Percussion – Aiyb Dieng

Produced by Afrika Bambaataa, Bill Laswell & Material
Recorded by Rob Stevens

Written by Afrika Bambaataa & Bill Laswell.
Administration for Material – Roger Trilling

Video Director: Unidentified/Unknown

℗ & © 1984–Celluloid Records [Cat# - CEL 176]
© 1984–OAO Music Inc (BMI)

#music #video #punk #rap #hip_hop #electronic_boogie #world_destruction #nuclear_war #democracy #wars #warfare #religions #politic #autocracy #brainwashing #fanaticism #idiocracy #elitism #capitalism #communism #cold_war

The #AI #Cold_War: OpenAI's Push to Ban #Chinese #DeepSeek Models in Critical Sectors

https://www.hitnewslatest.com/2025/03/digital-divide-how-openais-deepseek-ban.html

A Spy Satellite You've Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
https://spectrum.ieee.org/reconnaissance-satellite
#ycombinator #signals_intelligence #cold_war #naval_research_laboratory #spy_satellites

When the CIA turned writers into operatives
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/when-the-cia-turned-writers-into-operatives
#ycombinator #podcasts #cold_war #c_i_a #writers #dwight_macdonald #kenneth_tynan #richard_wright

Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
https://spectrum.ieee.org/yugoslavia-diy-microcomputer
#ycombinator #8_bit #Cold_War #DIY_Computer_Kit #galaksija #retrocomputing #type_departments #yugoslavia

The containment of George Kennan (2022)
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-containment-of-george-kennan/
#ycombinator #George_Kennan #containment #Cold_War #Soviet_Union #foreign_policy

Spying 101
(2002) : Hewitt, Steve
isbn: 0-8020-4149-3
#spying #university #history #RCMP #intelligence_services #cold_war #canada #my_bibtex