@ingrid Dying Republic summer, I think. The empire may be what comes next...

also I just noticed a bunch of new subscribers in the last week, cool and welcome new readers but who did that

So this episode is also pretty weird to release now because an uptick in militia fighting in DRC has drawn media attention back to the issue of "conflict minerals"—I've seen campaigns where people are quitting vaping in solidarity w/people of the Congo? Which, IDK. I hope this deeper dive into the longer history of tantalum mining in DRC is helpful for ppl just now learning about it.

@ingrid listened to it twice. such at good episode, so well researched. I especially loved your epilogue. I wish someone would pay you tons of money to make a multipart series on mineral supply chains, colonialism, capitalism, and war.

@ingrid this was great, thanks for it

@ingrid not sure if this is in the scope, but a uni friend and I once built a pedestrian navigation system for Daimler. It was serving mobile phone users in Berlin using WAP and was deployed at IBM in ca. 2000. The navigation data came from some XML-based API provided by Daimler and was targeting cars IIRC, so had to be “translated” for pedestrians. I remember some headaches recognising roundabouts because Daimler’s API would serve those as multiple right turns in a row…

@ingrid I did and still do work with GIS and RS

@ingrid I released a customizable, shareware web map thing in Flash back in 2004. https://backspace.com/mapapp/

@ingrid @sam ahh yay!