Short Stories: The Logbook's Lies (Part 1)
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The Tanker Nobody Protested: On paperwork, patriotism, and the ancient American art of shouting at the wrong boat
Making sense of a certain strain of American civic theatre requires accepting its founding premise: that the correct response to a genuinely alarming regulatory collapse is to locate the one vessel in the harbour flying the scariest flag and shout at it very loudly from the dock. On the tenth
Google's Private Navy: The Deputy Secretary of Defence, The Seabed, and a Coincidence So Tidy It Practically Files Its Own Maritime Notice
Google has quietly built the world's largest privately owned submarine cable network. It maintains that network through a single contractor with unusually deep ties to the Department of Defense. The man who built that contractor into what it is today is now the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the
Greece Is Building Its Own Internet. Turkey Would Like a Word.
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the
Reggie the Raccoon: A User's Manual
Or What Happens When a Brain Optimised for Threat Detection Has to Make Small Talk The therapist's name was Dr. Pamela Osei, and she had, in fourteen years of clinical practice, treated executives with god complexes, founders who had mistaken their net worth for their self-worth, and