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October 17, 2025
Did you know? On October 17, 1777, British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American forces at the Battles of Saratoga, marking a major turning point in the Revolutionary War.
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we’re diving into global strategy, national security, child protection, and the economy. First, Ryan Berg, Director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins the show to break down why Venezuela matters beyond narcotics and migration, the geopolitical stakes of regime change, and the implications of U.S. policy options under a potential Trump administration. Then, Mark “Oz” Geist—Benghazi hero, former Marine, and co-chair of the Protect Our Children initiative—discusses his mission to enact common-sense protections for kids and combat child sex trafficking in Colorado and across the country. Finally, financial expert Gary Gygi returns to unpack why gold prices are surging and what it reveals about global trust in central banks.
Biden Couldn’t Get A Ceasefire Because He Was A Wimp. Trump Got It Because He’s Tough.
Allies win when they know you’ve got their back—and enemies lose when they believe it.
Democrats are coping with Trump’s success in ending the Gaza War by claiming that Biden had offered the same thing, but that Trump and Israel colluded to get him defeated. Their source: ‘Trust me, bro!’
Glamorous suspected serial killer ‘takes pleasure in killing,’ kept landlord’s body in her home: reports
A glamorous suspected serial killer allegedly kept her landlord’s decomposing body inside her home in Brazil for five days, according to reports.
Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes, a 36-year-old mom and law student from São Paulo, is alleged to have killed at least four people in the space of five months, CNN Brasil reported.
The “extremely manipulative” suspect “takes pleasure in killing” and shows “a lack of remorse,” Police Chief Halisson Ideiao said.
Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’
Cambridge University archivists are leading an important project to extract and conserve valuable information from floppy disks before they become unusable.
The initiative began when the archive received a box of 5.25-inch floppy disks from a DOS-formatted computer that belonged to none other than physicist Steven Hawking, who was able to use early computers despite his disability from ALS.
The challenges a group of archivists encountered when they attempted to read the disks helped them realize how vulnerable this funny, briefly adopted technology which predate compact disks is to the ravages of time, and how a clock was ticking to get important information off them before they became unusable.
It spawned a project, aptly named in our current pop-culture environment: “Future Nostalgia.”
Before the term was chased from the historical lexicon with torches and pitchforks, “the Dark Ages” were used to describe the period in European history when primary source writings are particularly scant—between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.
The Future Nostalgia project presents the case that the late 20th century may form a sort of dark ages when historians in the future look back on our time and see a big hole in early computer writings. Certainly books and magazines and newspapers are available a-plenty, but if floppy disks and other early technologies aren’t kept in good order, early computer writings may seem sparce to future historians.
Floppy disks present numerous challenges to archivists, among which were the multiple formats they were built and coded for.
“There wasn’t one system that dominated the market,” explains Leontien Talboom, a member of the Cambridge University Library’s digital preservation team who is leading the project.
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