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Bruce Perens: The Ham Radio Operator Who Made Trump Want Greenland
- weinzierl 9mo agoAn archive.org link, since submitting LinkedIn articles doesn’t seem to be possible, and I think it’s an interesting story nevertheless. There’s some irony in that Bruce Perens, of all people, posted it only on LinkedIn and not on his blog.
- ZeroGravitas 9mo agoInteresting story but the actual person credited with starting this potentially catastrophic diplomatic embarrassment is billionaire nepo baby Ronald Lauder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder Apparently the original discussion included trying to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.
- dtagames 9mo agoIts quite a stretch to say this guy had anything to do with it. We've tried to acquire Greenland twice before.