I bought an Apple Studio Display but could not get it to work properly with my 2021 M1 16 inch MacBook Pro. The screen kept flickering. I tried different cables. I even tried a different MacBook but could not get it to stop flickering. The colors also looked washed out. I returned the display to my local Apple Store for a refund. No hassle getting my money back, but I am disappointed.
Putting Putin’s Language in Context
Yale historian Timothy Snyder, writing in his newsletter, explains the significance of Vladimir Putin’s accusations that the Ukrainian government committed “genocide”:
It means, most likely, that he plans to arrest the political and civic leaders of Ukraine, carry out show trials, and have innocent people executed.
It is grotesque . . . for Putin to accuse the Ukrainian government of being Nazis. The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelens’kyi, is a Jew with moderate political views. His grandfather fought the Germans in the Red Army; his grandfather’s family was murdered in the Holocaust. He was elected with more than seventy percent of the vote by members of a multicultural society who generally define their nation in civic terms. The far right gets imperceptible percentages of the Ukrainian vote and plays no role in government.
Putin also disrespects those who suffered and perished in the Holocaust.
The Russian Challenge
Chris Miller, an assistant professor of international history at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a co-director of the school’s Russia and Eurasia program writing in The New York Times:
Today the threat to Europe’s security is not hybrid warfare but hard power, visible in the cruise missiles that have struck across Ukraine.
Why Photograph?
“To connect with creative individuals”
Photography is a true solace in my life and to work on projects that I’m passionate about is incredibly fulfilling.
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Despite my chronic health issues (meaning I’m currently bed-bound), I’m extremely eager to connect with creative individuals.
Hannah Gimblett
You can see other reasons people make photographs here.
A Ukrainian Memorial in Washington Commemorating an Earlier Tragedy
The Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 was opened in Washington, D.C. on November 7, 2015. Congress approved creation of the Holodomor Memorial in 2006.
The Holodomor was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It was a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin. Holodomor is term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).
The memorial was built by the National Park Service and the Ukrainian government to honor the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 and to educate the American public.
The memorial, designed by Larysa Kurylas, is one of three monuments in Washington, D.C., designed or co-designed by women—the others being the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial.
The memorial is located near the U.S. Capitol building at the intersection of North Capitol Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and F Street N.W. It is diagonal to the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, about one block from Union Station.
You can read more in Atlas Obsura.
In light of current events, this history is especially sad – and timely.
Creator of ‘The Americans’ On Russia
Joseph Weisberg, a former CIA officer and the creator of the terrific TV series The Americans has written a new book entitled Russia Upside Down An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War. Weisberg challenges commonly held American assumptions about Russia. Weisberg was interviewed about his book on an episode of SpyCast, which is produced by the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.
In October of 2021, Weisberg was interviewed on the excellent SRB Podcast, produced by my alma matter, the University of Pittsburgh.
David Enzel 