Curious article from Russia:
He mentions several people, most of whom I have never heard of, so I asked Google about them and here are Google's summaries, listed in order by year of birth:
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (1876 – 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908. WikipediaThe author, Artyom Lukin, an associate professor of international relations at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia.Carl Schmitt (1888 – 1985) was a German jurist, author, and political theorist. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. WikipediaLeo Strauss (1899 – 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. Wikipedia. No relation to Levi Strauss.Nick Land (1962 – ) is an English philosopher best known for popularising the ideology of accelerationism. His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism, and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences. WikipediaMarc Lowell Andreessen (1971 – ) is an American investor, entrepreneur, and software engineer who has made significant contributions to the internet. He co-authored the first web browser to display graphics, Mosaic, while working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s. WikipediaCurtis Guy Yarvin (1973 – ), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. WikipediaBlake Gates Masters (1986 – ) is an American venture capitalist, author, former political candidate, and conspiracy theorist. WikipediaAnduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous systems. It was cofounded in 2017 by inventor and entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and others. Anduril aims to sell to the U.S. Department of Defense, including artificial intelligence and robotics Wikipedia
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Vladivostok is 4,800 miles away from me over the the north Bering Sea. Moscow is 5,300 miles away over the North Pole. Vladivostok is 4,000 miles from Moscow.
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