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27 December 2025 - 25 January 2026

Jan 25, 2026

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This is another roundup of everything I have been writing and podcasting around the internet of late. I am integrating the podcast from The Distance into Osborne Ink during the new year and making some content changes to centralize everything through this website. These digest posts will stop appearing at some point in 2026.

Polemology Positions

Why America Gets Battleships For Christmas

We are used to thinking of ‘battleships’ as hulking metal monsters with great, huge guns because that is what battleships became in the 19th century. The western concept of a ship fighting mainly with broadside gunnery begins right around 1500 AD, when European carpenters first cut gun…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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