May 19, 2022
Another indictment of Chinese covert operations.
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Well, that’s rather interesting
![A photo of my left hand holding the book. I am a 5'4 woman with small hands, and it fits comfortably in my hand and is roughly the length from my wrist to the tip of my middle finger. What we can see of the book here is the leather upper binding, which has been blind tooled with a centerpiece in the shape of a long lozenge. For information on the technique known as "blind tooling" [I'm conscious of the awkwardness of writing that here], consult this link: https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/cases/blindtooling/index.html](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFTDVRPyXoAAGJVC.jpg)
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PSYOPS are getting good.
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If you’ve been reading this Substack for a while, you’re familiar with the DPRK job applicants. Well, it seems the FBI have been reading this Substack too! ;)
Ok, fine, the dates don’t match up, nor do the specific threats, but it is definitely probably maybe part of the same phenomenon.
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I was talking with a friend about military manuals and readability (don’t ask), and I mentioned the Nazi Tiger tank manuals with their bawdy cartoons. He’d never seen them, so a quick Google later, I ended up with the operational manual for the V2 rocket. As one does.
You don’t even have to Google.
https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/a4-fibel-v2-rocket.pdf
And here is the sexist Nazi Tiger tank manual too. Another historical curiosity.
https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/die-tigerfibel-1943-tiger-tank.pdfAnd, if after all that, you want to know more about the readability of Army manuals, here’s a paper I found from the Vietnam era (when the Army transitioned to all volunteer, requiring them to rewrite all the manuals).
Kniffin, J. D. “The New Readability Requirements For Military Technical Manuals.” Technical Communication 26, no. 3 (1979): 16–19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43086724.
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If you read only one retired Russian Colonel’s assessment of a war in Ukraine published in early February 2022, read this one. (Extremely readable with Google translate. He is a very good writer.)
https://nvo.ng.ru/realty/2022-02-03/3_1175_donbass.
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One star review of the trolley problem trolly.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-passengers-one-star-review-of-the-trolley-ride-from-the-trolley-problem-
Crypto. Fraud. Scam. The website tracking it
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/-
The hacker partisans are certainly creative.
https://www.techspot.com/news/94641-hackers-created-robocaller-waste-russian-officials-time-you.html-
Some humorous history!
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