I’ve been very busy with event jobs recently and haven’t posted on the blog as much as I would like to. Because of this, I have not kept you up to date with episodes of The Private Citizen. So here’s a list of the shows I’ve released during the last four weeks:

→ The Private Citizen 114: War and Justice

In response to some input from listeners, I feel it is necessary to explain some things about how I cover the war in Ukraine and how I feel about wars in general. Let’s talk about wars, international law and justice.

→ The Private Citizen 115: A Second Winter War?

What does the Russian war in Ukraine have in common with the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939? What is different? And what can we learn from this about how the current war is going?

→ The Private Citizen 116: The Left’s Fear of Musk

I don’t like Elon Musk. But I think him buying Twitter isn’t a bad thing. The people who do, however, are either unintentionally wrong or they are actively fighting on the side of censorship and propaganda, like the US intelligence community.

→ The Private Citizen 117: Blockchain Basics

Blockchain technology is one of the biggest buzzwords in tech in recent times. But what are blockchains and what do you need them for, really? Spoiler: Not much, actually.

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Finally managed to record another episode of the podcast. Enjoy!

→ The Private Citizen 113: Lex Draconis

In Germany, telling someone on the internet that you will hurt and injure them if they visit you at home is apparently a valid defence for actually hitting them now.

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I’m pretty behind on my podcast The Private Citizen. I’ve actually missed two releases now. This is mostly due to a trip to Hanover for work-related reasons in the last week of March and many work commitments I could not postpone coming down to deadlines in the previous week. On top of that, I have to admit, I also used the dropping of almost all of the SARS-CoV-2-related restrictions to finally spend some time with friends and at parties and such. I promise I will give my best to start catching up in the coming week. I do have some work commitments, but it should be more manageable. I already have a lot of interesting topics lined up for the show and can’t wait to record some episodes!

The current episode of my podcast The Private Citizen looks at Russia’s war goal in Ukraine.

→ The Private Citizen 112: What Does Putin Want?

What are Putin’s war goals in Ukraine? What is the Russian military trying to achieve? And how is it going?

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Last week’s episode of The Private Citizen deals with Facebook finally showing its true colours when it comes to fighting hate speech.

→ The Private Citizen 111: Peak Hypocrisy

Facebook just made a mockery of the fight against hate speech by admitting that it’s okay if you call for the murder of people the political mainstream doesn’t like. It’s only hate speech if you want to murder the wrong people. What the actual fuck.

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I recorded another Private Citizen episode on the whole Drachenlord situation. I think it’s an important topic that might have significant consequences for people’s civil rights. Especially because mainstream journalism continues to get the story wrong.

→ The Private Citizen 110: Drachenlord on Tour

German YouTuber Drachenlord has sold his infamous Drachenschanze and is travelling in a pickup truck around Germany. Meanwhile, well-meaning people, who have no idea what’s actually going on, think he’s being bullied.

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I’m back with The Private Citizen! Last night, I released a new episode focused on, what else, the Russian war in Ukraine.

→ The Private Citizen 109: Agitprop Ahoy!

The war in Ukraine has been raging for eight years, largely ignored by the West. It is not new. Neither are the policy blunders by NATO and the EU that have led to the current full-scale invasion. Putin is to blame for the war, but the West has created the situation that enabled Putin to wage it.

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Here you go. I’ve just released the last episode of The Private Citizen in a while. I’m going to take a month off now. I’ll be back with more episodes in March.

→ The Private Citizen 108: The Biggest Security Vulnerability of All Time

Log4Shell, a vulnerability in the Java application logging framework Log4J has been called the worst security vulnerability ever. Is that just the usual hype, though? Or why haven’t we seen the forecast large scale exploitation of this bug? Is there something more sinister at play here?

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Last night, I released The Private Citizen episode 107 with my take on the Neil Young / Joe Rogan / Spotify story. I’m planning to release an additional episode tonight before taking February off from the podcast. But first, here’s episode 107:

→ The Private Citizen 107: Neil Young is Being a Dick

Neil Young has had his record label pull his music from Spotify because he doesn’t like that Joe Rogan interviews people who have a different opinion than Neil Young. The story of a counterculture rebel turned censorship advocate.

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On episode 106 of The Private Citizen, I once again try to wind down my coverage of the pandemic. Will I be able to manage it this time? Only time will tell…

→ The Private Citizen 106: Concluding the Coronavirus Coverage, Part 2

Taking stock of the civil liberty and privacy nightmare we have built for ourselves in the pandemic and explaining why I don’t think reporting on it accomplishes much at this point.

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