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Russell Hogg

@hogster

London mountain biker. Host of Subject to Change podcast at https://xitter.gq/t.co/ldfxbN6NqN

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Joined December 2008
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"Open the refrigerator doors, HAL."
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JUST IN: Fridges and freezers at some supermarkets in Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden were hacked overnight. Hackers changed the temperature settings to as high as 70°C (158°F), causing food to spoil. The damage is expected to run into the millions.
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Old Gassy@OldGassy1984Nov 2
The supermarket chain thaw massacre
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Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe

Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe

European supermarket fridges are under cyberattack once again, with stores across a vast swathe of the continent from Sweden to ​Belgium hit by a hack on Monday that turned up their temperatures,...

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Giles Milton@GilesMilton1Nov 1
‘Superb… you will be utterly gripped.’ A fabulous review of Empire At The Edge of the World by the great @matthewparker70 @aspectsofhistory @johnmurrays
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This week on the blog! We're finishing our Hearts of Iron IV series, focused on strategic ends and the place of modding in the game. In the end, I think there is a bitter irony that Paradox's least historically responsible game is their most successful. acoup.blog/2026/10/30/teachi…
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVb: Iron Ends

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVb: Iron Ends

This is the back half of the last part (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) of our series looking at the vision of history advanced by Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand stra…

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Another dinner, another @Hogster podcast to entertain me. The Barbary corsairs and white slavery in Morocco (eeek!) described by @GilesMilton1. youtube.com/watch?v=O4daR19g…
Britons never will be slaves?

Britons never will be slaves?

Giles Milton is one of my favourite authors producing narrative his...

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My engineering history taking a brief look at some Greek mathematics. laurencescales.substack.com/…
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Consummatum est! Ten years in the planning and after over twenty years of reading and at least one year of writing, Galileo - History and Myth is complete. historyforatheists.com/2026/…
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You can watch my talk on the People's Emperor and Napoleon III at the fabulous Cliveden Literary Festival here: youtube.com/watch?v=mwfRwvsX…
Nothing but the Truth

Nothing but the Truth

Hermione Eyre (ch), James Cahill, Edward Chisholm and Edward Shawcr...

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Renaissance Metallurgist, Vannoccio Biringuccio, was born 20 October 1480 #histsci #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/09…
Revealing the secrets of the fire-using arts

Revealing the secrets of the fire-using arts

During the Middle Ages it was common practice for those working in the crafts to keep the knowledge of their trades secret, masters passing on those secrets orally to new apprentices. This protecti…

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New translation now posted and read aloud in Greek and English on my Substack: armanddangour.substack.com/p…
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My dinner this evening was spent in the company of @Hogster and his guest @DavidGrann in this riveting podcast, hearing of disaster and endurance in the South Seas in the 18th century. youtube.com/watch?v=_-Et0pRu…
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Replying to @hogster @136Amitabha
That really was a great podcast. Thank you for that!
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This week on the blog - more on Hearts of Iron IV and this week's is a heavy one, assessing how the decision not to acknowledge or address war crimes and crimes against humanity causes the game to blunder into being a 'clean Wehrmacht' myth simulator. acoup.blog/2026/10/16/teachi…
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love

This is the second half of the third part (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) of our long-delayed series looking at the theory of history advanced by Paradox Interactive’s Hearts of Iron IV, one of …

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shrimps after the anthropic ipo
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Paul Lay@_paullayOct 5
Quite the read. Devastating.
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy

But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy

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Christen Sørensen, better known as Longomontanus, Tycho Brahe's longest serving and leading observatory assistant, was born 4 October 1562 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/08…
Tycho’s last bastion

Tycho’s last bastion

In the history of science, scholars who end up on the wrong side of history tend to get either forgotten and/or vilified. What do I mean by ‘end up on the wrong side of history’? This refers to sch…

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Michael Servetus, the first European to discover pulmonary blood circulation and who was condemned and executed by the Calvinist for blasphemy, was born 29 September 1511 #histsci #histmed thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/09…
Not a martyr for science.

Not a martyr for science.

Those who still mistakenly subscribe to the White-Draper hypothesis of a war of religion against science, and these days it is mostly gnu atheists and their ilk, invariably produce lists of the mar…

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Latest podcast just uploaded. Jonathan Clements talking about the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It has the best subtitle in the history of podcasts. 'Death by a thousand haircuts'. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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