Nikola’s blog
Where I share what I’m reading and thinking about. Mostly politics, conflict, and history. Here’s the latest:
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“You’ll own nothing and be happy”
0This might read like a niche complaint about gaming and PC hardware, but the pattern underneath it touches almost anyone who has ever bought a movie, a game, or a piece of software they assumed was theirs. This is about how much control people have over things they have already paid for. Sony confirmed it…
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Bulgaria’s summer ritual: We kill each other on the roads, then we forget
0In the span of about three weeks this month, the news here has read like a casualty list. Four people dead on Chelopeshko Shose after two men raced each other into a city bus at around 150 km/h. Two teenagers killed near Mezdra by a kid with five months of driving experience. Two nine-year-old boys…
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Why it is always Russia’s fault
0When black fuel oil began washing up on the Bulgarian coast this month and people posted photographs of their stained hands, a large share of the online reaction skipped the investigation and went straight to blaming Ukraine. There is nothing to support that and the source of the oil is still unknown, but the reflex…
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