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David Martin's avatar

Over at the Washington Post, I was reading a sometime spy novelist, David Ignatius, reporting from Ukraine on coordinated battlefield use of all sorts of data, including fresh remote sensing. All those satellites. This very sophisticated work, done with lots of input from NATO, reminded me of the astonishing British decoding efforts during World War II. I suspect that Alan Turing would be delighted at today's massive, quick, and smart use of data. Russia? I suspect their best and brightest are nowhere to be seen, least of all with the army. Or Wagner.

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Hello, I was wondering if you could help me find a reference for a quote that has been attributed to you. I was working on improving the Wikipedia page for the OPB podcast entitled "Timber Wars" and noticed that various podcast applications claim that you said "Listeners are left with both an appreciation of the magnificence of old growth forests and the toll paid by logging communities when those forests were protected. Environmentalists and loggers don't agree on much, but I think they will concur that 'Timber Wars' is fair and brilliant journalism." However, I am unable to locate where or when you wrote this. Do you have any ideas what happened to the source? You can contact me at temporaryemailaddress55@gmail.com or you could add the source to the Wikipedia page yourself.

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