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With guest Beatrice Adler-Bolton of the Death Panel podcast."]]></description>
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    <title>What Happens 'When the World Sleeps' (with Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-08T04:40:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her new book, “When the World Sleeps”."

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"Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories comprising the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, is one of the singular most courageous voices against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the savage repression meted out to Palestinians in the West Bank. Her detailed UN reports have been fearless examinations of the machinery of apartheid and genocide and Israel’s disregard for international humanitarian law. She has been viciously attacked. The Trump administration ordered the U.S. Department of Treasury to classify her as a “specially designated national”, cutting her off from the global financial system and blocking any U.S. citizen and corporation from engaging with her. All of her U.S. assets have been frozen. She is unable to carry out routine financial transactions. She has paid for her courage and her honesty.

Her book, “When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine” lifts up the voices of Palestinians, many of whom she knows, and others in ten short chapters to expose the human cost of Israel’s occupation and mass slaughter. She draws from her own experience living in Palestine, weaving her chapters around individuals who give a human face to the suffering. These include Malak Mattar, an artist who fled Gaza to Egypt, and who suffers tremendous guilt for those she left behind, as well as Eyal Weizman, who opened her eyes to Israel’s vertical politics, the three dimensional use of physical space employed by Israel to control airspace and subsoil, as well as horizontal borders. She excoriates the Western press, the world’s diplomats, for creating a false sense of equivalency in the conflict as if Palestinians stand on equal footing with their occupiers. Palestinians do not have an Air Force, heavy weapons, mechanized units and navy, or billions in military aid from the United States and Israel’s European allies. It cannot structurally subordinate Israelis’ control, their movement and access to land, air and water, or the flow of goods essential to maintain a minimum quality of life.

“To use words like war and conflict masks the truth. It presents a false version of reality. Israel’s apartheid system and genocide cannot be stopped until it is acknowledged and understood,” she writes. This requires not only knowledge but empathy. She fortunately is endowed with both. Joining me to discuss her new book, “While the World Sleeps,” is Francesca Albanese.

Francesca, I want to begin with the case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. He has been jailed by the Israelis for eighteen months since the 27th of December 2024. He was the head of the hospital in Gaza. And there’s very disturbing news from his attorney, Nasser Odeh. He’s been moved to this underground prison, Rakefet, that used to be closed and Ben Gvir has reopened. Has no light. It’s a severe detention facility. and when Dr. Abu Safiya arrived for the attorney’s visit, he was handcuffed, shackled, in leg irons, accompanied by masked prison guards, and his attorney saw fresh and severe bruises on his body, especially on his head, around his eyes, ears and neck. And the lawyers said it was hard to recognize him.

He struggled to breathe. He struggled to speak. He appeared extremely weak. He was terrified. He was in severe distress. He couldn’t express himself for fear, he said, of retaliation. And he told his lawyer that after his hearing took place on June 10th, 2026, regarding the appeal to the Supreme Court against the extension of his incarceration order, four or five prison guards entered his cell, beat him on all parts of his body with a hammer and batons. And he’s basically suffered daily violence, lost consciousness several times and, as you write in the book, this isn’t the first time that doctors have died within Israeli prisons. You had Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a surgeon and head of orthopedics at Al Shifa. This was after severe torture, perhaps sexual torture. You had Dr. Iyad Rantisi, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s maternity unit.

I just want to speak to this kind of very urgent case. His lawyer, Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International and others are at this point saying his life is in danger. And I think he actually told his lawyer in court that this would be the last time, that he was finished, I think, or something like this."]]></description>
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    <title>Literary Hub » On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-04T12:33:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Maggie McKinley Rereads One of America’s Great Nostalgists"

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"In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself in Germany amid the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and “face to face with something old and genuinely evil in the spirit of man.” Upon his return to America, Webber acknowledges that the darkness he has witnessed is not confined to Germany but is everywhere around him, a realization that “shook his inner world to its foundations.” Disillusioned, Webber reflects on the inability to return to a previous worldview, a previous self, or a previous innocence, though his realization remains tinged with longing:

<blockquote>You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing’s sake, back home to aestheticism, to one’s youthful idea of “the artist” and the all-sufficiency of “art” and “beauty” and “love” . . . away from all the strife and conflict of the world . . . back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.</blockquote>

Webber’s unsettling revelations do not end in defeatism, however; rather, he is inspired toward “a definite sense of new direction.” While he possesses a keen awareness of the corruption that surrounds him, he also exhibits a distinct optimism for the future, particularly the future of America, which he believes still has the capacity to conquer evil, and in the end he insists that “this glorious assurance is not only our living hope, but our dream to be accomplished.” Webber’s conception of the future is thus one that simultaneously encompasses and rejects a nostalgic view of the past, as his forward-looking vision is shaped by a longing for the return of a past moment that collides with the realization of its impossibility.

Of course, Wolfe is not the only American writer to contend with a nostalgic impulse that is deeply connected to experiences of chaos and change. As social, industrial, and technological shifts continued to inform art, politics, and commerce over the course of the twentieth century, writers ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Toni Morrison also examined the allure of looking back, of yearning for a purportedly more stable past. Yet I would argue that there are few contemporary American writers who examine the complexity of nostalgia with more depth, breadth, curiosity, and prescience than Joan Didion. Like Wolfe before her, Didion acknowledges the multitude of ways we might define “home,” and recognizes the inevitable pull of nostalgia for a particular time, place, aesthetic, hope, ideology, or feeling even as she, too, harbors an increasing mistrust of past narratives that “once seemed everlasting.”

Yet Didion takes these ideas much further than Wolfe—and further than most writers, for that matter. Her engagement with nostalgia is not confined to a single character, publication, or era, but defines her fiction and nonfiction across decades, informing her discussions of politics, gender, rhetoric, media, and much more. Her nostalgia also becomes increasingly future-oriented, in a way that is more cautious than that of a character like George Webber, but which nevertheless undermines assessments of her worldview as nihilistic or fatalistic, and complicates common understandings of nostalgia as a purely conservative impulse."

...

"Indeed, nostalgia is at the center of nearly everything she wrote, and I argue that by investigating the various ways she engages with and defines the concept in both fiction and nonfiction, we can better understand the contradictory terms that have come to define Didion’s writing and literary persona: fatalistic and hopeful, fragile and strong, detached and connected, feminist icon and antifeminist, humble and haughty, conservative and liberal. Reading Didion’s work through the lens of nostalgia theory allows us to better understand the source of these tensions, and to reevaluate her views on American history, regional identity, hubris and imperialism, gender, political theater, the counterculture, national rhetoric, grief and loss, and more."

...

"While Didion’s cultural observations are often filtered through a personal experience of nostalgia, more often the latter functions as a critical lens that she discerningly turns onto twentieth-century American culture. At the same time, nostalgia theory becomes a tool we might turn back onto Didion’s work, useful in probing not only her own enigmatic ideas but also the ways modern American history has been narrativized, and how that impacts our cultural and political discussions in the present moment.

An interrogation of nostalgia is also, I would argue, part of her own truth-seeking project as a New Journalist, and her exploration of the allure and menace of nostalgia takes on new dimensions as she directs her gaze outward. Indeed, the nature of New Journalism as a genre allows Didion to demonstrate an acute awareness of her own narrative construction; she draws attention to the fact that her cultural criticism might be tinged with nostalgia and then proceeds to critique this tendency in herself."

...

"In both fiction and nonfiction, she documents the ways that America has used nostalgia to “pernicious” effect on a political and imperial level, a factor that continues to shape our national mythos (Where I Was From). As a nearly ubiquitous presence, nostalgia becomes a recurring theme, a character trait, a narrative perspective, a subject of her criticism, and a critical device in her work. Didion’s work emphasizes that while nostalgia can be paralyzing and foster stagnation when wielded at the institutional level and as an unquestioned worldview, political tactic, or marketing technique, it is also a natural inclination, one that allows us to make sense of our place in the world at any given moment, and can be a tool for uncovering personal truths and identifying cultural and national myths."]]></description>
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    <title>The ADL’s Forgotten Spy Ring Scandal and the South African Apartheid Regime with Mark Ames –Parallax Views with J.G. Michael – Apple Podcasts</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-04T08:44:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On this edition of Parallax Views, Mark Ames, journalist and co-host of the popular podcast Radio War Nerd w/ John Dolan (aka Gary Brecher), joins the show to discuss his 2014 NFSFWCORP piece "The Kings of Garbage, or, The ADL Spied on Me and All I Got Was This Lousy Index Card". Due to his anti-apartheid activism at Berkeley, Mark Ames found out in the 90s that he'd been spied upon by the ADL. His file listed him marked him as a "Pinko".

This leads us into the story of Roy Bullock, an investigator who spied on anti-Apartheid activists for the Anti-Defamation League and the South African apartheid regime. Working with SFPD intelligence officer Tom Gerard (who also had a spooky background involving CIA dirty wars in Latin America), Bullock was involved in all kinds of skullduggery, including a case that almost led to the murder of a Simon Wiesenthal Center researcher so that an ADL researcher could take his job and make some extra cash. It's a wild story that involves a spy ring within the ADL spying on American anti-apartheid activists. This also takes us into a discussion of how the Irwin Sewell and the ADL had dossiers on antifascist researchers like Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, the relationship between Israel and South African apartheid, the ADL's shift from focusing on far-right movement like the John Birchers to left wing activists in Berkeley and Arab Americans, the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the car bombing assassination of Palestinian activist Alex Odeh, Abe Foxman (national director of the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 to 2015), the FBI (and LA Times?) vs. the ADL, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt's embrace of Elon Musk (and curious comments comparing him favorably to noted antisemite Henry Ford), ADL spying on black Americans like former Congressman Ron Dellums, the ADL as part of the National Security State, philosemitic antisemitism, Israel as being its own worst enemy, the canceling of author and journalist Vincent Bevins in Germany, and more."

[See also:
https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/mames/ 

"The Kings of Garbage, or, The ADL Spied on Me and All I Got Was This Lousy Index Card" by Mark Ames (2014)
https://psmag.com/news/kings-garbage-76228/

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    <title>Descolonización del patrimonio en Puerto Rico con Rafael Capó García y Javier Arbona-Homar • Sur-Urbano</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-03T22:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Puerto Rico: Un archipiélago que, cada año, recibe a millones de turistas. Muchos de estos visitantes llegan a un lugar que, por décadas, se ha posicionado en una ruta de consumo caribeño – un lugar famoso por fantasías tropicales de ron, cigarros, café y, más recientemente, reggaetón. Si queremos ser más específicos, el Viejo San Juan, el sector colonial de la capital de Puerto Rico, está organizado en torno a satisfacer al visitante con sus restaurantes de comida criolla, coctelerías, tiendas y una proliferación de alquileres a corto plazo. Pero este modelo termina volviéndose insostenible para quienes la habitan. Detrás de las campañas publicitarias cuidadosamente diseñadas para atraer a turistas a un destino familiar y convenientemente situado “dentro” de los Estados Unidos, se oculta una historia incómoda de guerra, racismo y represión violenta.

Hay muchas personas en Puerto Rico cuestionando el espacio público y excavando las historias que existen debajo de cada monumento, de cada estatua, de cada ciudad y su infraestructura. Una de esas personas es Rafael Capó García, el fundador de Memoria (De)Colonial – un proyecto en Puerto Rico que ofrece recorridos históricos en San Juan. Los guías interrogan los legados coloniales de la herencia y el patrimonio puertorriqueño. Esto lo hacen a través de un lente decolonial y antirracista, y el proyecto tiene como misión promover perspectivas críticas en el momento de acercarnos a un monumento histórico. Pueden conocer más de su proyecto aquí:

https://memoriadecolonial.com/

Para pensar más en este acercamiento hacia los monumentos, nos sentamos también con Javier Arbona-Homar, un profesor puertorriqueño en UC Davis quien se enfoca en el diseño y en los estudios explosivos, es decir, cómo las explosiones transformaron la política espacial de los paisajes. Pueden encontrar su libro más reciente, “Explosivity Following What Remains”, aquí:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918842/explosivity/ "]]></description>
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    <title>The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T22:50:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""Leveragism" is a term I made up, and it describes what the American economy is increasingly heading towards. As you will see, this is really bad news. 

0:00 - About Capitalism
3:53 - Political Leverage
6:01 - The Gold Trap
8:00 - The Rug Pull
11:34 - The Bond Trap
15:23 - Classical Leverage
19:00 - Debts R' Us
20:32 - AI Circlejerk
22:45 - My Awesome Trip To Israel 
29:09 - Authoritarian Leverage
35:01 - Siphoning Your 401K
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Charles Portis looked past our national mythology to portray the real America"

...

"No other novelist captures the modern American attraction to unsupported fringe beliefs, crackpot schemes, and cults and renders it with such mordant glee as Portis."

...

"Every country has its own myths of origin and national character. We don’t expect our poets and fiction writers, our songwriters and moviemakers simply to tell stories, as vital as narratives are to us. We look to them to establish myths of national identity and create exemplars of these myths, as Whitman does when he sings of the open road in Song of Myself; to ratify and expand those myths, as Kerouac does in On the Road; to challenge and question myths like the idea of the self-made man, as Fitzgerald does in The Great Gatsby. You’d search far and wide before you found a better yarn than the adventures of Mattie Ross and Rooster Cogburn, in which, as Mattie puts it, “I avenged Frank Ross’s blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground.” But storytelling is far from all that Portis is up to. After fairly demolishing any notion of chivalry that readers of an earlier generation might have associated with the Confederacy and undercutting Rooster’s credentials as a Wild West hero, the overweight, hard-drinking, bounty-hunting marshal emerges as a kind of chivalric hero after all—not through any mythic identity, but simply because of who he shows himself to be when the chips are down: a man with true grit.

Portis is one of our great and quintessentially American writers because, like Hemingway, he never abandoned his journalistic sensibilities. His ability to see things as they are is bracing. There is something of the investigative reporter’s determination to discover the truth in the sure-handedness with which Portis gleefully ridicules the gimcrack “secret brotherhood” of Gnomonism in Masters of Atlantis, and how he takes down the grandiose delusions of characters like Symes in The Dog of the South. It’s as if Portis can never quite get over the capacity we have for self-delusion. Americans’ readiness to believe something like Q-Anon wouldn’t have surprised him in the slightest. It’s no accident that Jimmy Burns, the narrator and protagonist of Portis’s last novel, Gringos, is not some mythical road warrior like Kerouac’s Dean Moriarty but a shade-tree mechanic scraping out a living in Mexico. In Portis’s treatment of the West, there’s some truth in Roy Blount Jr.’s statement, quoted earlier, that the author “could be Cormac McCarthy if he wanted to, but he’d rather be funny.” I would amend that judgment slightly and say that he’d not only rather be funny, he’d also rather base his stories on actuality than follow the siren songs of myth. A humorist by temperament, he knew instinctively that, as Charlie Chaplin knew in making The Great Dictator and as Saturday Night Live knows in lampooning our current president, laughter is a powerful weapon in dealing with the folly of those who think they have all the answers."]]></description>
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    <title>Daring Fireball: Om</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A personal remembrance of the GigaOm founder, True Ventures partner and writer who made Silicon Valley legible, including the late-night founder exchange that showed how his media machine worked."

...

"Om Malik (@Om), the journalist, GigaOm founder, photographer and True Ventures partner whose work tracked the commercial internet from dial-up optimism to AI saturation, died on June 24 at Stanford Hospital after what his family described as a long health journey with his heart, according to a post on On my Om. He was 59.

His family said he was surrounded by family and friends. The post asked readers to share remembrances in comments or on his social accounts, which is exactly right for Malik: he turned a personal site into a public room before the internet turned every public room into a feed.

Here is the part where I break the fourth wall, because the usual obituary distance would be dishonest. I was one of the founders trying to get his attention. In March 2008, late at night, I pitched GigaOm on Ping.fm, the social publishing startup, asking whether the publication wanted to run the story of our new iPhone interface and help give away beta signups. Malik replied within minutes, shortly after 11 p.m.: "can you outline what Ping.fm does? I would love to chat more, but would like to get an idea as to what its all about. :-)"

That exchange was small. It was also the whole system in miniature. A founder could reach the editor directly. The editor was awake. The story was not filtered through a communications department, a conference stage or a banked embargo calendar. Malik helped build that operating system for Silicon Valley media: fast, conversational, porous, technically literate and dangerously close to the companies it covered.

Malik was not just one of the people who covered Silicon Valley. He became one of the people Silicon Valley used to understand itself. That was the gift and the complication of his career. He was a reporter, then a founder, then a venture investor, and he never entirely gave up any of those identities. He could spot a network shift early because he had spent decades watching pipes, protocols, business models and human ego interact at close range. He could also be too close to the machine he covered, a tension that defined the blog era he helped build.

Born and raised in Delhi, Malik earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from St. Stephen's College before moving through journalism jobs in India, London, Eastern Europe and New York. On his About page, he described himself as a San Francisco-based writer, photographer and investor who had spent three decades in the trenches of Silicon Valley and had been writing about the commercial internet since its birth. Before GigaOm, he worked at Business 2.0, Forbes.com, Red Herring and Quick Nikkei News, and wrote for outlets including The New Yorker, Fast Company, Wired and The Wall Street Journal.

The early biography matters because Malik did not enter technology as a cheerleader. He came through telecom, broadband and infrastructure, the unglamorous substrate under the consumer internet. His 2003 book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, examined the excesses and fraud around the telecom bubble. That made his later enthusiasm for networks more useful. He understood that every platform story had a bill attached, and usually a creditor somewhere in the frame.

The blog as company

Malik started GigaOm as a one-person technology blog in 2001 and, with seed funding from True Ventures, turned it into a media company and research business. True later wrote that shortly after closing its first fund in 2006, it gave Malik a $25,000 check with the note, "Use this to make your dreams come true," and then committed to fund GigaOm's Series A after a formal pitch meeting.

That origin story became part of both Malik's legend and GigaOm's eventual cautionary tale. The company was built like the startups it covered. It carried the ambition of venture-backed scale into a journalism business that depended on advertising, research, events and an audience sophisticated enough to care about cloud infrastructure before cloud infrastructure was obvious.

GigaOm was not as loud as TechCrunch and not as institutional as the business press. Its best work lived in the middle: close enough to startups to see the seams, technical enough to follow the architecture, skeptical enough to resist the worst demo-day theater. If you were building in that era, you knew what a GigaOm mention meant. It meant someone who understood the stack might take you seriously.

That is why the late-night Ping.fm exchange belongs in the story. It is not here as nostalgia. It shows the market structure Malik helped create. Founders had direct channels to writers. Writers had direct channels to readers. Publications could move at startup speed because they were startups. The upside was intimacy and signal. The downside was that everyone stood a little too close to everyone else.

Malik stepped away from day-to-day writing and became a full-time partner at True Ventures in 2014. TechCrunch, covering the move at the time, wrote that Malik was leaving professional journalism after years of the 24-hour news cycle, and quoted him saying the constant stream had come at a personal cost. The move formalized what had already been true for years: Malik was no longer only an observer of founders. He had become one.

The collapse that shadowed the legend

The hardest part of Malik's legacy is GigaOm's 2015 failure. The company shut down abruptly in March of that year after saying it was unable to pay its creditors in full. Staff lost jobs. The archive and brand later changed hands. For readers and employees, the shutdown was not an elegant sunset. It was the sudden stop that exposes how fragile even respected media institutions can be when they borrow the financing logic of the companies they cover.

The numbers were not small. A Recode account republished by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society reported that GigaOm had raised around $40 million in equity and debt over eight years, including about $5 million from a 2011 venture debt round, and that by the end of 2014 it was spending about $400,000 a month on rent and interest payments. The Guardian later framed the closure as a lesson in what happens when a niche journalism business takes on Silicon Valley's growth expectations without Silicon Valley's software margins.

That is the bad part, and it should not be airbrushed. Malik's creation proved that a technology publication could be born on the web, build authority without legacy distribution and compete with trade magazines and newspapers on its own terms. It also proved that influence, respect and smart coverage do not automatically produce a durable balance sheet. In the end, GigaOm became a warning to every founder-journalist who believed audience love, investor money and events revenue could be fused into a stable media company.

The investor-writer contradiction

Malik's second act at True Ventures was cleaner financially but messier editorially. True's profile says he became a venture partner in 2008, a partner in 2014 and partner emeritus in 2020, investing in networking and infrastructure technologies while guiding the firm on technology trends. His own bio lists investments and board roles tied to companies such as Ditto, Petasense, Academia.edu, Socialcast, Lexity, Glider, MessageMe, Storehouse, TwinPrime, Over, Opendoor and IntentionNet.

That placed him in the same contradiction occupied by several blog-era figures: the people with the best taste in startups often had the strongest incentives around startups. Malik managed that tension better than most because his writing, especially in later years on On my Om, became less about scoops and more about judgment. He wrote about technology, photography, business cycles, health, memory and the human cost of living inside the network. He preferred the long arc to the launch post. He was still a participant, but his best work did not read like portfolio maintenance.

His eye for early signals was real. TechCrunch called him one of the forefathers of professional tech news blogging and noted that he was among the first bloggers to cover Twitter's launch and to break the news of TechCrunch's acquisition by AOL. Malik later revisited his own early Twitter experience in a 2020 On my Om essay, writing that he may have been the first non-employee user after Noah Glass told him about the service outside a San Francisco party. That memory captured both the innocence and the eventual exhaustion of the social web: a hungry reporter stepping outside for nicotine, hearing about a strange messaging product, publishing a post, then watching the whole internet reorganize itself around the behavior.

What he leaves behind

Malik's place in Silicon Valley lore is not that he built the biggest media company, made the most money as an investor or won every prediction. He did not. His significance is that he made technology legible at the moment the industry learned to narrate itself in real time.

He belonged to the generation that sat between magazine-era business reporting and the permanent feed. He knew the old discipline of beat reporting, the new speed of blogging and the founder psychology underneath both. He could be sentimental about tools and ruthless about hype. He loved networks, but he also understood that networks eat attention, sleep and health.

That final point was not abstract. Malik wrote publicly that a major heart attack in 2007 changed his focus and priorities. His family's statement this week gives that part of his life a final, blunt punctuation. The heart story was not a side note to the work. It shaped the quieter, more reflective Om of the past decade: the photographer of minimal landscapes, the writer skeptical of jargon, the investor more interested in durable shifts than noise.

I keep coming back to that 11 p.m. reply because it explains why so many founders, writers and investors are stopping today. Malik did not just write about the internet. He behaved like the internet when the internet still felt like a place where a direct question could open a door. He was curious, fast, opinionated and present.

The Valley will remember Malik because he was there early, but that undersells him. Plenty of people were early. Malik mattered because he understood that being early was not enough. You had to connect the technical fact to the business consequence, the business consequence to the human one, and the human one back to the story people told themselves about progress. That was his beat. It remains the beat everyone else is still trying to cover."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the span of just a few years, one billionaire family has come to wield extraordinary influence over the platforms through which millions of Americans live, consume and understand their lives, the news and the world around them.

And while many American journalists are loudly lamenting the fascistic circus before them - one single family, deeply ingratiated with the President of the United States, coming to control key facets of influence on American life - they will ultimately lose whatever fight they think they can or should put up. And this is because American journalists - whether as a collective or with prominence - are not able and willing to recognize Weiss and her Ellison patrons for who they are and what they are doing.

There is a lot moralizing over her increasing power and influence but there’s no confrontation with why this is happening.

And that is because we, too, as journalists are culpable for Weiss’ win.

The (Zionist) Elephant In the Room

It is not an overstatement to say that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation of October 7th created an inflection point in contemporary history. The operation itself, and Israel's U.S.-backed campaign of extermination and expansion that followed, ruptured a political order that had persisted since Sykes-Picot. The institutions that had long upheld that order remained formally intact, even as their legitimacy came under increasing scrutiny. And the assumptions that sustained that order - about power, legitimacy, who has the authority to narrate violence and determine whose violence is justified, and who has the power to dictate life and death - began to unravel in full public view.

And it was the Zionist narrative - both American and Israeli - around Palestine and Palestinians that saw its unraveling accelerated. Social media became a critical space through which Palestinians documented, in real time, their genocide. Day in and day out, every day Palestinians - including those barely out of adolescence - shared images, footage and words about their grief, their losses, their joys, their memories and what it meant to be a Palestinian, what it meant to be in Gaza. Social media became a place where millions of people, especially younger audiences, encountered histories of dispossession, learned about the role of U.S. support for Israel, and witnessed what Zionism looks like in practice: an ideology that saw the slaughter of children not as collateral but as necessary to its own survival.

The Zionists lost control - and they knew it. They’d, after all, been here before."

...

"Across 2023 and 2024, we also begin seeing an aggressive expansion of the antisemitism narrative: criticism of Israel was collapsed into a hatred of Jews; opposition to genocide was recast as demanding another Nazi Holocaust and solidarity with an occupied people facing extermination was transformed into criminal activity that necessitated institutional and state investigation."

...

"And as Palestinians were slaughtered by the tens of thousands, Americans were repeatedly returned to the same narratives of Israeli victimhood, Israeli trauma, Israeli fear; Jewish trauma, Jewish fears. As Gaza was reduced to rubble and flesh, coverage focused on Israeli hostages, Jewish divisions, and the emotional toll of war on Israeli society and Jewish communities here at home. Even if the conversation on trauma and suffering was based on lies - ranging from 40 beheaded babies to mass rapes.

Palestinian suffering was present, but it was told as a tragedy born out of necessary violence; Palestinians, themselves, were rendered into unreliable witnesses to their own genocide. Whatever stories were told about their deaths, about their pain, their grief had to obfuscate and justify the Israel license to annihilate them.

Israelis were always killed, Palestinians always died.

And so news organizations tied themselves into knots to obscure Israeli war crimes and reframe anti-genocide protest as evidence of a resurgence of 1940s-style antisemitism rather than a moral (and bare minimum) response to mass slaughter of a nation.

Many journalists have publicly resigned in protest of their newsrooms’ complicity in the genocide of Palestinians and thousands of others have signed open letters demanding that the most basic journalistic standards be applied to the coverage of Gaza (here, here, here, here, here, here). Never in modern history have so many journalists been killed covering a single conflict; Palestinian journalists documenting the genocide of their own people have been killed at an unprecedented rate, many alongside their families, their homes reduced to rubble, their names folded into casualty counts and rarely, if ever, making it into headlines - except to have their lives criminalized and their murders justified. The sheer number of their deaths, as well as the manner in which they were killed, shows a deliberate systematic policy of murdering journalists. And, three years later, international journalists still cannot enter Gaza without an IDF embed and editorial intervention.

Yet the profession that so often speaks of press freedom and journalism’s essential role in democracy has largely failed to extend those principles to the Palestinians, to covering their extermination (with, of course, exceptions). This silence isn’t revelatory - its functional, to protect American interests and culpability in the genocide by protecting Israel.

And this is why Weiss’ ascension became inevitable.

Bari Weiss Wins

The difficulty American journalism faces in confronting Bari Weiss or the growing influence of the Ellison family, beyond some angry tweets and maybe some frustrated emails, is not about professional etiquette or even cowardice. It is that doing so honestly would necessitate a reckoning with the press’ own role in shaping the very landscape that allows, with ease, for the Ellison family to do as they are doing and for Bari Weiss to assume the power that she has.

Weiss is not particularly talented or savvy. She’s not even, by every account, very competent. She is, in fact, rather boring - the most interesting tidbits shared about her in a 2019 Vanity Fair profile, part of a clear attempt to manufacture a public intellectual, are that she once dated former SNL star Kate McKinnon and that she had pen on her boobs during the interview. What has distinguished Weiss throughout her career has been neither intellectual rigor nor journalistic innovation, but ideological consistency. Zionism has been the animating force of her public life, shaping her politics, her professional trajectory, and her understanding of the role journalism ought to play.

Even as a student at Columbia, Weiss helped lead campaigns against Arab professors and scholars critical of Israel, including Joseph Massad, efforts that foreshadowed the project that would later define her career: narrowing the boundaries of acceptable discourse around Israel while recasting that narrowing as a defense of liberal values.

The question, then, is not why Bari Weiss has arrived at this moment. We know why: she is being rewarded for her ideological zeal to protect Zionism, to protect Israel, at the expense of the most basic journalistic ethics and principles.

The question: what now?

Backed by the Ellison family and positioned to influence some of the country's most powerful news organizations, Weiss now poses a threat not because she represents a break from the values of American journalism, but because she exposes them. Her ascent reveals how readily journalistic institutions have accommodated the narrowing of acceptable discourse around Israel, at the expense of the Palestinian nation - and that is what makes them so ill-equipped and unwilling they are to confront the consequences of having done so.

Because to confront, in a real sense, what the Ellisons and Weiss are doing is to acknowledge what the past three years have been about. It is to acknowledge the role our news and popular media have played in pushing the very lies -about antisemitism, about Israeli violence, about Palestinians - that enabled the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Those same lies will now be more lazily, and more transparently than ever before, baked into all coverage: whether about Arabs and Muslims, the Trump administration, LGBTQ communities, Black communities, poor Americans or undocumented Americans.

Not a single major piece in the mainstream press examining Weiss’ ascension - particularly the possibility of her assuming editorial control at CNN - has meaningfully connected it to the broader American Jewish pro-Israel advocacy project of the past three years: the manufacturing of antisemitism as the defining lens through which criticism of Israel is understood and the insistence that news media have become hostile to Israel. Both, of course, accompanied by the publicly repeated demand to reassert control over the narratives on Israel.

Bari Weiss wins because there is no meaningful resistance to her. The Ellisons win because there is no meaningful resistance to them. There is no resistance to their explicit project of consolidating control over the flow of information and the narratives available to Americans. Armed with billions of dollars, technological infrastructure and a friendly president, the Ellisons will continue to acquire as they see fit. And Weiss will continue to flourish within them because she has long been a dutiful participant in this project, ideologically zealous and with a long record of doing exactly what she is doing now.

The Good News

Weiss and the Ellisons may win at the institutional level, but they are part of a project that is dying - that of the American empire, of Zionism, of our news industry. People cannot unwitness what they have witnessed. You cannot unsee the shredded bodies of children pulled from beneath concrete slabs; you cannot unsee emaciated babies, blood-soaked hijabs and fathers carrying plastic bags filled with what remained of their sons and daughters. You can’t spend months watching Palestinians document, in real time, the annihilation of their families and emerge unchanged. And you especially can’t go back to believing the killers, especially as they continue killing.

Nor can you forget what that annihilation revealed about the country you live in. You do not forget watching every major institution - political, cultural, journalistic - contort itself in defense of another state’s right to exterminate an occupied people living in an open-air prison. You do not forget being told that there is no money for healthcare, for housing, for affordable groceries, for schools, for debt relief, while billions of your tax dollars continue to finance the bombing, displacement and starvation of other families.

The institutions may yet succeed in disciplining dissent and consolidating control over the mainstream narratives available to Americans, but they will not change what we have witnessed and what is that we now see so clearly.

So let Weiss win, let the Ellisons win - their efforts and their zeal reveal what’s being dismantled, not what’s being built."

...

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    <title>Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not As Much! – On my Om</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Every morning I sit down and open Feedbin on my iPad. It aggregates my RSS feeds and newsletters – about a hundred sources – covering everything from AI to zeitgeist. One story stopped me recently. The Wall Street Journal proclaimed: “Menswear Is in Its ‘Nice’ Era.”

This comment from a personal stylist sent me down a rabbit hole about clothes, social media, and how the gatekeepers still don’t understand their own growing irrelevance:

<blockquote>“The clothes are inoffensive, but there’s no point of view. The downside isn’t bad taste, but the erosion of individuality.” – Turner Allen, personal stylist, New York</blockquote>

Menswear today is neutral tones, muted basics, everything well-cut and normal. Or as they say, nice. The Business of Fashion recently called this an epidemic. Everyone in the industry has an opinion about it. What almost nobody has is an explanation for why. The fashion media is smart enough to spot the symptom but fails at the diagnosis.

The BOF at least attempts an answer, channeling the music critic Simon Reynolds, who argued in his book Retromania that pop music had collapsed into endless pastiche – referencing references, with nothing original left to say. The same, the BOF writer suggests, has happened to fashion. The epidemic of nice clothes is what you get when an industry runs out of ideas.

Maybe. But that framing is still entirely about the industry. It leaves out the person standing in front of the mirror.

Me.

The writers’ complaints are simply the arrogance of insiders, something common across media. Just look at how self-referential the Atlantic and the New Yorker have become. Same when it comes to technology, sports, and everything else.

They all treat the paying customer as a rube. What if we stopped wanting the opinions of fashion insiders and sports reporters who are not nearly as honest as they pretend to be? Everyone is talking their own book, all the time, everywhere. Everyone is looking to get paid.

We the rubes have learned a thing or two.

For years we have been swimming in images. Instagram, street style blogs, TikTok, Pinterest, the endless scroll. Whatever you think of that flood of images, it has done something to our eyes. It has trained us. We have looked at more clothing combinations, more visual context than any generation before us. We have developed taste not from magazines but from sheer accumulated exposure.

The assumption buried in the insider complaint is that the point of view should come from the garment. That the designer is the author and we are the readers. That clothes arrive with meaning already assigned, and our job is to receive it correctly. This is how the whole enterprise of fashion writing has always worked – and it is, not incidentally, how affiliate link revenue works. You spot the trend and explain why it matters. You link to where they can buy it.

That model made sense when images were scarce and editors were gatekeepers. It makes far less sense now.

Look at my own closet. It is a capsule collection of about a hundred pieces. Plain, nice, comfortable, well-made garments. French-made bespoke blue shirts. Muji T-shirts. Japanese workwear. I arrived at each of them because they are precisely what they are not: a line item in LVMH’s annual profit report. They work with my body. When I combine them, the result is mine. Not defined by a runway, a trend, or any external verdict.

Alexander McQueen famously said: “I want you to come out either repulsed or exhilarated, as long as it’s an emotion. If you don’t feel an emotion, I’m not doing my job.” It is a great quote. It is also a completely designer-centric view of the world. The designer produces the feeling. You experience it. You are the audience.

That model is over. Today’s designers are mostly hired hands executing the commercial agenda of conglomerates whose job is to sell expensive product on installment plans to people who want to feel rich. The clothes that result are rarely worth the allegiance.

A perfectly cut neutral trouser means almost nothing by itself. But that trouser with a specific shoe, a worn jacket, a watch with some history, a shirt you found somewhere unexpected – now there is something. The clothes are the vocabulary. I write the sentence.

Compare this to what came before. The hypebeast era, the logomania, the streetwear machine – that was actually the most passive way to dress in living memory. The brand told everyone what you were about. The logo spoke. You just put the thing on. It was expensive ventriloquism.

The epidemic of nice clothes is not a failure of imagination in the industry. It might be the industry finally catching up to what people actually want: room to think for themselves. A canvas, not a lecture.

The question was never whether the clothes have a point of view. The question is whether you do.

Lawrence Lessig in 2008 argued that the 20th century had been a Read-Only culture. You consumed what the professionals produced, passively, with no mechanism to talk back. The phonograph, the radio, the CD: the machines made you an audience. The internet broke that. Suddenly culture was Read-Write. You could take what existed, layer it, reinterpret it, make something yours. That shift has expanded with every generational turn – Web 1.0, Web 2.0, social, mobile, and now AI.

Fashion just got there later. The hypebeast era was the last gasp of Read-Only dressing. What is happening now looks like an epidemic of nice clothes. It is actually the beginning of something else.

The read-write metaphor has since become read-write-read. And the data backs it up.

Hundreds of millions of people are not just consuming culture – they are recreating it. Layering it, putting it back out. The fashion industry’s complaint that people lack a point of view doesn’t hold against what the numbers actually show. These are the same people uploading 14 million tracks a month to SoundCloud and posting 272 TikToks a second. They have plenty of points of view. They just stopped waiting for permission to express themselves.

Now give me the raw energy of Diya Joukani – a self-taught designer from Mumbai who just filmed a cameo with Rihanna. Wintour is good for hosting the Met Gala, not for finding the new thing. She can’t. Because there isn’t one new thing anymore. And the fashion-industrial complex doesn’t understand that.

The upside of the connected world means now I can find a talent like Diya without any editor telling me that I must pay attention to her. And in her I see what I have always imagined, a world where we tell the story of us. Diya and I are about 35 years apart, but she captures how I see my clothes. A palette to be put together. Simple, nice, and authentic. Embellishing is what I do. Sure, I learned from Anna and her ilk. But now I know myself much better, and hence nice is not just nice. It is me."]]></description>
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    <title>Revenge of The Business Idiot</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-27T00:03:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["LLMs are dangerous for many, many reasons, but the under-discussed one is how well they play to a certain kind of executive imbecile. Generative AI is — to quote Mo Bitar — really good at doing an impression of work, much like most managers and c-suite executives, and even if it’s completely incapable of doing something, it’ll absolutely say it can and tell you you’re amazing for suggesting it.

And that’s why Business Idiots love it. 

Where regular human beings would say annoying things like “that’s not possible within that timeline” or “we don’t have the resources to do it,” AI will say “of course, right away!” and burn as many tokens as possible. When it makes mistakes, it’ll apologize — as it should because it failed you — but then promise to do better next time, all while costing so much less, at least in theory, than a regular, stinky human being. 

It’ll create a PRD (product requirements document) of a theoretical software project with the confidence and vigor that you need to take it immediately to a software engineer and say “build this immediately,” and when the software engineer tells you a bunch of bullshit about it not being possible, it’ll spit out several convincing-sounding responses. Fuck, why even bother talking to that engineer at all? Claude Code can mock up a prototype that you can then shove in their fucking face before you fire them for not using AI to do it themselves.

I realize I sound a little churlish and dismissive of those who may or may not actually get something out of AI, but this entire industry feels like a mixture of kayfabe and ignorance, slathered with a kind of angry desperation that reflects the distance between reality and fantasy, driven by people that don’t do any fucking work. 

Any executive-level fuckwit you’ve met in your life now has a seemingly-powerful tool that can burp up mimicry of open source software and, if you constantly prompt it, eventually get something half-functional onto some sort of web server. When you face bugs, it’ll try and fix them, sometimes also “fixing” (adding or deleting code) from elsewhere to be helpful, like when Cursor using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model deleted an entire production database and all its backups. It will never, ever say no, even if it’s incapable, even if it has no thoughts, even if what you are asking is equal parts impossible and unreasonable in both its timescale and scope.

A Business Idiot, given his druthers, can sit there and fuck around and make an LLM spit out something that makes him feel like he’s coding, which in turn makes him feel that you, a lazy and stupid engineer, could do even more with the power of AI. It doesn’t matter that it costs an absolute shit-ton of money, or that there’s no way to measure its efficacy. The Lion does not concern himself with things like “efficacy” or “productivity,” and the Lion is increasingly tired of your whining! The Lion doesn’t even understand what it is you do every day other than not doing what The Lion is asking for!

You laugh, but this is genuinely how the majority of managers and executives think and act, and now they have a special chatbot that can fart out functional-enough prototypes to convince a Business Idiot they can do anything, because executives and managers do not regularly do much work. As a result, they have little idea what work looks like other than when they look over your shoulder, which is why they wanted you back in the office, and their distance from production is why the same people who were anti-remote work are now aggressively trying to shove AI down your throat. 

Organizations aren’t burning millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a year on AI because it’s good, they’re doing it because they are run by people who do not know what the fuck they’re doing. 

Generative AI is catnip for hall monitors, snitches, toadies, and any other group that hates work and loves talking down to others. Put another way, it ingratiates losers who believe that learning to do or being good at something is a waste of time, because they deserve to just do what they want without any of that messy “effort.” 

While I’m not saying every LLM user is an imbecile, they’re built to convince the mediocre and incurious that they’re remarkable, and it turns out that a great many of them run venture capital firms and Fortune 500 companies.

I also want to be clear that while there are sane and normal people who use these things, they’re mostly drowned out by a crowd of people that oscillate between bootlicking and regurgitating capitalist mythology in a way that makes it hard to trust anybody who spends significant amounts of time using an LLM. 

One thing you’ll notice about the most moistened AI boosters is that they lack much degree of pride in their work. Everything they say must, at some point, compliment the mindless, unprofitable, unreliable tool underneath it — how “incredibly powerful” it is, how it’s “only getting better,” how it’s “only the beginning” of something that’s eaten over a trillion dollars and absorbed the majority of venture capital. 

It isn’t about the work, or the craft, or the thought behind it. Everything is a numb, mindless death march toward saying “job done” and burping out some sort of pseudo product, if one even exists."

...

"The AI Industry Is A Grifting Machine

I want to lead with a surprising comment: I don’t think LLMs, as a tool, are a grift. There are use cases, though those use cases are miniscule compared to the egregious promises and extrapolations made by the majority of the media and the executive sect, and absolutely nothing about them warrants the amount of money invested in them. 

That being said, I think LLMs lend themselves perfectly to grifting.

Sam Altman helped propagate a technology perfect for conning people with potential, a larger extrapolation of Altman’s own life of taking dogshit — Loopt, for example! — and parlaying it into larger opportunities. It can make a really half-hearted demo of a lot of things, and that’s good enough to sell to Business Idiot. 

Dario Amodei took this grift and perfected it. Anthropic is a company purpose-built to con people into giving it by money by making people feel smart. LLMs can do work-shaped stuff, sometimes, as long as you debase yourself to accept mediocre and often-broken stuff that you have to keep a vigilant eye on, and either use a subsided product that loses Anthropic money or pay a shit ton of money as an enterprise to Anthropic and it still loses money. 

The media was also primed for the grift. Reporters are never incentivized or supported to actually spend meaningful time understanding technology, meaning that the vast majority lean toward access journalism or, at best, the most kindly, “objective” (read: pro-business) takes that result in “wow, isn’t the future great?” no matter how good the thing they’re using actually is. Editors are, in many cases, entirely disconnected from the process of reporting or writing, let alone the underlying technology their reporters cover, which leads them to at best live in a world of “I sure don’t trust these CEOs but their technology sure is powerful.” 

As a result, all a technology has to do is either look or sound plausible. Can LLMs write all code? Not really! But because they can write some code and there are lots of eager people on Twitter saying it’s powerful, that’s all it takes to write the sentence “software engineers are writing most of their code using LLMs.” Can Anthropic actually take down Figma? God no, but the mere existence of Claude Design is enough to write that it might. All it takes is the hint of something to be true for it to be written about as gospel. Each statement adds another bullet point to Anthropic’s investor deck so that it can raise another $30 billion in funding, which in turn validates any journalist’s beliefs in Anthropic’s ability to destroy other companies with a product the journalist has not and never will use. 

Business Idiots did well to pressure modern journalism into conflating scrutiny with a lack of curiosity. To ask too many questions is “unfair.” To not immediately assume that LLMs are getting “exponentially better” is to be an ignorant luddite. To not assume that everything will work out like it did with Uber or Amazon Web Services is to “ignore history.” 

Grifters took advantage of this industrialized intellectual weakness using a tool purpose-built to do enough of an impression of something to impress the media and executives.

It worked, because both are sold to in much the same way — by telling a plausible-enough story that ingratiates somebody who is never the end user of the product in question. 

If a journalist gets curious, an LLM can make a good-enough impression of somebody writing software to fool somebody who doesn’t really know what they’re doing, and if you prompt it again and again and again, it can get something functional out the door. This is all it takes for somebody — a reporter or an executive — to extrapolate that because they were able to do something (even though the LLM did it), a subject-matter expert would be able to do even more."

...

"I write this newsletter to hopefully do three things:

• First, to tell you that the Business Idiot class wants you to doubt yourself, because whether you recognize it or not, they’re engaged in acts of information warfare against you.

• Second, to remind you that facts are facts, and numbers are numbers, and that no amount of puffery or obfuscation can change pure mathematical reality. The AI bubble is exactly that, a bubble, and like all bubbles, it will eventually pop.

• Third, to remind you what it is we’re fighting for. Because every newsletter I write isn’t simply about highlighting mathematical stupidity, or corruption, or dishonesty.

I do it because I believe, fundamentally, that these people — Altman, Amodei, Nadella, and the many, many other villains that I’ve mentioned in these pages — are bad people, and their values are the antithesis of my values. I care about people, and humanity, and truth, and they do not. 

I deeply love technology, and feel it made me the person I am today. It allows me to do wonderful things, connect with wonderful people, and discover endless troves of incredible information. The computer is marvelous. The computer has done many wonderful things for me, despite what all the Business Idiots say.

I see LLMs as a violation of everything that great computing stands for. The AI industry encourages its users to both accept and present low-quality work and demands that they constantly defend the industry from those who would demand better from it. It is inefficient, power-intensive, environmentally destructive, and inherently sold based on things that it might do, providing far more value to scam artists and con men than it does to its end users. 

This is a mask-off moment for both the ruling class and those captured by capital, and an opportunity to look around you and see who is most-easily fooled.

No industry of value needs to mislead you or make you feel bad for not adopting their technology. No trustworthy individual will ever see the need to humiliate or attack somebody for being insufficiently excited about a product. No CEO that talks of a theoretical future as a means of selling you software in the present should be trusted. No technology that makes mistakes with regularity should be defended.

And no industry that demands everything from us — our land, our energy, our water, our jobs, our art, our writing, our attention and every dollar we have — should ever be treated with anything but revulsion."]]></description>
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    <title>After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-14T04:33:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Apple Podcasts | Spotify

As part of the Spring Symposium at the Wake Forest Humanities Institute, Matt Seybold discusses the present and future of AI speculation, including an extended discussion with Wake Forest faculty, many who were part of WFHI’s Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Language, Theory, & Artificial Intelligence.

Cast (in order of appearance): Jennifer Greiman, Matt Seybold, Derek Lee, Michaela Appeltova, Nisrine Rahal, Barry Trachtenberg, Jeff Bills-Solomon, Dean Franco, Amanda Gengler

Featured Guests

Jennifer Greiman is Professor of English at Wake Forest University and Director of The Humanities Institute there.

Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast.

Episode Bibliography

Emily Bender & Alex Hanna, The AI Con (HarperCollins, 2025)

Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. “On The Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” FAccT 2021

Tressie McMillan Cottom, “The Tech Fantasy That Powers AI is Running on Fumes” The New York Times (April 29, 2025)

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (U California Press, 1984)

Virginia Dignum, The AI Paradox: How To Make Sense of a Complex Future (Princeton UP, 2026)

Ronan Farrow & Andrew Marantz, “Moment of Truth” The New Yorker (April 13, 2026)

Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams & Nigthmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI (Penguin Random House, 2026)

Andy Hines, Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism & The University (U Chicago Press, 2022)

E. D. Hirsch, Cultural Literacy (Houghton Mifflin, 1987)

Tyler Johnston, “The reporters at this new site are AI bots. OpenAI’s Super PAC appears to be funding it.” Model Republic (April 24, 2026)

Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon” Tech Policy Press (January 13, 2026)

Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Texpocalypse Now: AI and The New Political Economy of Writing” PennAI (April 17, 2026)

Matthew Kirschenbaum & Rita Raley, “AI & The University as a Service” PMLA (May 2024)

Christopher Newfield, Unmaking The Public University (Harvard UP, 2011)

Britt S. Paris, Radical Infrastructure: Imagining The Internet From The Ground Up (U. California, 2026)

Ann Pettifor, The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People & The Planet (Verso, 2026)

Ann Pettifor, “The Next Crisis is Coming” Politics Joe (April 1, 2026)

Ann Pettifor, “Is the next financial crisis only a matter of time?” De Balie (February 16, 2026)

Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell, The AI Doc, or How I Became An Apocaloptimist (2026)

Matt Seybold, “Against Technofeudal Education” The American Vandal (June 10, 2025)

Matt Seybold, “The Technofeudal Text” The American Vandal (August 25, 2025)

Matt Seybold, “Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production” The American Vandal (November 5, 2025)

Matt Seybold & Eric Hayot, “The ‘Crisis In The Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.” Chronicle Of Higher Education (December 29, 2025)

Matt Seybold & John Warner, “The Technology That’s Taking Your Freedom” Academic Freedom On The Line (February 3, 2026)

Matt Seybold et al, “The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble” The American Vandal (March 24, 2026)

Matt Seybold et al, “HBCUs & The Philanthrocapitalist Swindle” The American Vandal (February 4, 2025)

Jacob Silverman, “The Death of an AI Whistleblower” The Nation (May 2026)

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight For The Future of AI (Polity, 2026)

Ben Tarnoff, “Frankenstein’s Regret” The Nation (May 2026)

Wake Forest Humanities Institute, “Language, Theory, & Artificial Intelligence” (May 2026)

McKenzie Wark, Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019)"]]></description>
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    <title>The Equator Podcast | &quot;The American university is simply a corporate institution&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-11T00:17:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/cd365742</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The American university today, the writer Siddhartha Deb tells Equator's Pankaj Mishra, is "a money-making, MBA- and lawyer-run hedge fund and real estate operation with a minor sideline in education." It's hard, he says, to tell the difference between "Columbia University and the New School on the one hand and X and Elon Musk on the other."

Siddhartha, an Indian writer and novelist, came to academia in the US in the belief that it was a citadel of free thought and open minds. But as he wrote in his Equator essay From Calcutta to Columbia, disenchantment set in quickly. He saw how students were loaded with debt, how his university was voraciously expanding across its pocket of Manhattan, and how the jargon of theory "allowed people to cultivate a moral distance from capital and empire".

Journalism has suffered in parallel as well, both in the US and India. Siddhartha, a former journalist, tells Pankaj that newspapers as much as universities have cravenly surrendered to the Trump administration and but also to previous presidents. "I grew up with this idea of writing being a noble vocation," says Pankaj. "One of the great disillusioning experiences really of the last two or three decades has been that very few people seem to think of it that way. Most people think of it  as a pathway to the most hideously conventional forms of success."

Read Siddhartha's essay for Equator, From Calcutta to Columbia: A memoir of disenchantment https://www.equator.org/articles/from-calcutta-to-columbia "

[also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-university-is-simply-a-corporate-institution/id1886383434?i=1000766628988
https://open.spotify.com/show/3pS2rfsMQ3PoEfqWvSaBPG ]]]></description>
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    <title>How the Media Sold the Genocide in Gaza | Adam Johnson - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-22T21:49:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOKPeFVJhWI</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Adam Johnson, media critic and co-host of Citations Needed, joins Mondoweiss US correspondent Michael Arria to discuss his new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza. All royalties from the book are being donated to the Middle East Children's Alliance.

Adam breaks down how US media manufactured consent for the genocide in Gaza, from the ISIS-ification of Hamas to the fake ceasefire theater that let Biden run out the clock. He explains how liberal media created an alternate reality where Biden was secretly furious with Netanyahu while never once threatening to cut weapons, how campus protests were smeared as antisemitic pogroms while 3,000 children were being killed in a single month, and why the Claudine Gay scandal got more coverage on MSNBC than the murder of Hind Rajab. He also looks ahead at how liberal Zionism will try to co-opt growing opposition to Israel with better PR instead of real policy change.

Buy Adam's book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide/

Chapters:

0:00 The ISIS-ification of Hamas and how the media primed the US for revenge
11:18 Fake ceasefire theater and the "helpless Biden" myth
21:32 Zero Palestinian guests: how cable news erased an entire people
26:47 The campus antisemitism panic vs. 3,000 dead children in one month
36:17 Will any of this actually change US policy on Israel?

Guest: Adam Johnson, co-host of Citations Needed, author of How to Sell a Genocide

Host: Michael Arria, Mondoweiss US correspondent"]]></description>
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    <title>The Truth About Wokeness with Musa al-Gharbi | Ep 22 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-14T05:27:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What happens when the guardians of cultural narratives and societal norms become inseparable from the very hierarchies they critique? Today, we explore the concept of "symbolic capitalists" with Musa al-Gharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite and assistant professor at the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University.

In this conversation, Musa discusses the role of symbolic capitalists in perpetuating societal inequalities and how their influence extends to academia and media. His latest book, "We Have Never Been Woke," provides a radical yet introspective take on these themes. Drawing from his experiences at elite institutions like Columbia University, he highlights the paradoxes and internal contradictions of symbolic capitalism. Join us as Musa al-Gharbi articulates the complicity of the professional-managerial class in societal injustices and reflects on the role of identity and networks in shaping academic and professional paths.

In This Episode:
• Definition and impact of symbolic capitalists
• Collaboration between symbolic and traditional capitalists
• Moral and ethical implications of symbolic professions
• The interplay between academia and elite credentialing
• Disparities within symbolic professions
• Exploitation of adjunct professors in higher education
• Historical context of social justice movements among symbolic capitalists
• The symbolic performance of advocacy vs. direct action
• Revisiting the relationship between personal success and systemic inequality

About Musa:
Musa al-Gharbi, Ph.D., is the Daniel Bell Research Fellow at Heterodox Academy, and an assistant professor of journalism, communication and sociology at Stony Brook University. Musa is the Author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, published by Princeton University Press. He is a columnist for The Guardian and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications."]]></description>
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    <title>How elites co-opted wokeness - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-13T17:24:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What does it mean to be “woke”? It's become a catch-all term to smear or dismiss anything that has any vague association with progressive politics. So anytime you venture into an argument about “wokeness,” it becomes hopelessly entangled in a broader cultural battle.

Today’s guest, journalist and professor Musa al-Gharbi, helps us untangle “wokeness” from its fraught political context. The author of the book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, al-Gharbi discusses what effects the movement is and isn’t having on our society.

This episode originally aired in November 2024.

Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling) 
Guest: Musa al-Gharbi (@Musa_alGharbi)

6:11 What is wokeness?
18:48 Why George Floyd only mattered to the public after his death
20:32 How elites navigate the tension between their status and their values
28:43 How culturally significant is “wokeness”?
32:21 Do social movements produce change?
42:22 Will our politics remain polarized?"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-05T05:44:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The AI Industry Is Lying To You</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-24T20:49:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Tech Industry Has Poisoned Itself With The Lies of AI

In the end, everything about AI is built on lies. 

Hundreds of gigawatts of data centers in development equate to 5GW of actual data centers in construction. 

Hundreds of billions of dollars of GPU sales are mostly sitting waiting for somewhere to go.

Anthropic’s constant flow of “annualized” revenues ended up equating to literally $5 billion in revenue in four years, on $25 billion or more in salaries and compute.

Despite all of those data centers supposedly being built, nobody appears to be making a profit on renting out AI compute.

AI’s supposed ability to “write all code” really means that every major software company is filling their codebases with slop while massively increasing their operating expenses. Software engineers aren’t being replaced — they’re being laid off because the software that’s meant to replace them is too expensive, while in practice not replacing anybody at all.

Looking even an inch beneath the surface of this industry makes it blatantly obvious that we’re witnessing one of the greatest corporate failures in history. The smug, condescending army of AI boosters exists to make you look away from the harsh truth — AI makes very little revenue, lacks tangible productivity benefits, and seems to, at scale, actively harm the productivity and efficacy of the workers that are being forced to use it.

Every executive forcing their workers to use AI is a ghoul and a dullard, one that doesn’t understand what actual work looks like, likely because they’re a lazy, self-involved prick. 

Every person I talk to at a big tech firm is depressed, nagged endlessly to “get on board with AI,” to ship more, to do more, all without any real definition of what “more” means or what it contributes to the greater whole, all while constantly worrying about being laid off thanks to the truly noxious cultures that are growing around these services.

AI is actively poisonous to the future of the tech industry. It’s expensive, unproductive, actively damaging to the learning and efficacy of its users, depriving them of the opportunities to learn and grow, stunting them to the point that they know less and do less because all they do is prompt. Those that celebrate it are ignorant or craven, captured or crooked, or desperate to be the person to herald the next era, even if that era sucks, even if that era is inherently illogical, even if that era is fucking impossible when you think about it for more than two seconds.

And in the end, AI is a test of your introspection. Can you tell when you truly understand something? Can you tell why you believe in something, other than that somebody told you you should, or made you feel bad for believing otherwise? Do you actually want to know stuff, or just have the ability to call up information when necessary? 

How much joy do you get out of becoming a better person?If you can’t answer that question with certainty, maybe you should just use an LLM, as you don’t really give a shit about anything.

And in the end, you’re exactly the mark built for an AI industry that can’t sell itself without spinning lies about what it can (or theoretically could) do."]]></description>
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    <title>Why Western Media Only Platforms Pro-Israel Iranians - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-24T06:42:46+00:00</dc:date>
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Iranian-American attorney Hoda Katebi breaks down how Reza Pahlavi — the son of Iran's deposed Shah — became the West's handpicked opposition figure, backed by Israeli state influencers, Saudi-funded outlets like Iran International, and bot armies manufacturing the illusion of popular support. She explains why the monarchists cheering from Los Angeles don't represent Iranians, why you can't bomb a country into democracy, and what a real path to freedom actually looks like.

Guest: Hoda Katebi — Iranian-American attorney, writer, and community organizer


Chapters:

0:00 Intro
2:21 The fractures inside the Iranian diaspora
9:15 A third path: no Shah, no bombs, no regime
17:18 How Western media manufactures consent on Iran
20:53 Opposing war is not supporting the Islamic Republic"]]></description>
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    <title>On the Wired renaissance</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-18T01:06:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“If you still don’t understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” -Katie Drummond, Wired EIC

There’s been some murmuring among the tech barons about buying Wired magazine and turning it back into the magazine they remember from their youth. Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens wrote an X.com diatribe about this a couple weeks ago, where he complained that Wired still has good journalists, but they are focused on the wrong stories. “The building still has good people. The question is who owns the building.” (Anduril, you might recall, is the company building killer AI drones for the military. It’s run by weird creep Palmer Luckey. So I can see why its executives would rather Wired go back to writing VC glow-up profiles.)

YCombinator CEO Garry Tan (who likes to tell local politicians to “die slow”) loves the idea. In a blog post that was probably written by ChatGPT, Tan argues that "great tech journalism (…) doesn’t just cover technology. It creates the intellectual conditions for investment and progress. It puts a story in [an investor’s] head that sits there for nine years and then fires when the moment is right.” 

Tan is a clown, but he isn’t wrong that the magazine has decisively moved away from its 90s techno-optimist roots. 

Today’s New York Times features a profile of Katie Drummond, the magazine’s Editor in Chief. It’s a very good profile, well worth reading. Wired has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and, if I didn’t hate Polymarket and Kalshi, I would bet they’ll win it. The Katie Drummond era has been Wired at its finest.

And, given my documented history of reading entirely too many Wired magazines, I think that’s a nice excuse to write a bit about how the magazine has changed with the times.
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Wired was founded in 1993. It has had seven editors-in-chief, and each has taken the magazine in a different direction. Here’s how I would briefly typify them.

-There are the Rossetto years (1993-1997). I’ve written at length about this before (see “On Wired magazine’s startup phase”). This was the peak of Wired’s cultural influence, the time that many think of as the magazine’s golden era. Wired was the first magazine to make tech culture seem cool. Wired under Rossetto was definitely techno-optimist in its approach. And, make no mistake, techno-optimism is a political ideology. Business moguls and supply-side guru George Gilder were good. Government bureaucrats were bad. Silicon Valley was good. Traditional media was bad. Making money was good. Paying taxes was bad. 

Rossetto lost control of the magazine midway through the first dotcom boom. Wired was a cash furnace, and he tried and failed twice to take the company public through an Initial Public Offering. (It takes a… unique kind of person to fail twice at a tech IPO in the middle of the dotcom boom. Rossetto was just that sort of unique.)

-Rossetto was replaced by Katrina Heron (1998-2001), who managed Wired through the glory years of the late dotcom boom. These were the years of overstuffed 300-400 page magazines, half of which were advertisements. They were the years of the Wired index and fawning profiles of some truly insane futuristic ideas (Digiscent!). The tech press in those years, led by Wired, was practically identical to the fawning business press. It was a less openly ideological magazine, but also a magazine swelling with confidence that the new, glorious business-future was being born.

-After the dotcom crash, and just before 9/11, Chris Anderson replaced Heron. Anderson was the longest-tenured Editor in Chief (2001-2012). He steered Wired back to its trademark techno-optimism and wrote many of the defining pieces over the next decade. (The Long Tail, Free, The Web is Dead, The End of Theory) It was a different type of techno-optimism than under Rossetto. There was a lot less George Gilder, fewer fawning profiles of business moguls and no Newt Gingrich. There was also less junk science in there. But there was a whole lot of Silicon Valley boosterism. That’s what WIRED was there to do: make tech culture cool, and cover Silicon Valley like it was the future.

-After Anderson we had a few years of Scott Dadich (2013-2016). This was in the early 2010s, when Big Tech had gotten truly big, Moore’s Law had quietly run out of steam, and/but the techlash hadn’t happened yet. (It was also late Obama. Imagine late-Obama vibes and you’ll have a good sense of the tone of the magazine.) The magazine took some swings at taking politics and social issues seriously, but those swings mostly failed to connect. There are some great articles from those years that I teach in class (Silk Road! No Exit!), but my impression is the magazine struggled with its identity during the Dadich years.

-Nick Thompson’s editorship (2017-2020) overlapped with the techlash. And while I would now rate the Drummond era ahead of the Thompson era, it seems to me there has been a lot of casual forgetting of just how good the magazine was under his leadership. WIRED in 2017-2020 broke a whole lot of news about the tech platforms. It was well-sourced and confrontational. This was around when Wired magazine became an outlet that the tech billionaires low-key despised. They were the years when the magazine stopped treating Silicon Valley as the future (complimentary) and started treating it as the present (derogatory). 

-Gideon Lichfield took over after Thompson left for The Atlantic. He ran the magazine from 2021-2023, and his tenure felt very 2021-23 to me. Tech was the biggest bubble on earth. Much of that bubble was clearly insane. the magazine covered the bubble and covered the insanity. It was critical-but-serious coverage. And that, by nature, was a bit of a muddle. Good examples that come to mind are Sandra Upson writing about CryptoPunk NFTs, Steven Levy writing about Clubhouse, and Gilad Edelman writing about Web3. All three are high-quality journalism that read a little funky today, because the correct-with-hindsight reaction to all three is “this is such bullshit and it’s gonna fail,” but all three were instead treating each subject as “this is a big deal and it seems kind of insane what a big deal it is. Let’s think through what it all might mean.” The tech boosterism of the 90s and the 00s was long gone, but much of the writing felt like serious journalism applied to unserious times. 

And now we’re in the Katie Drummond era. And the Drummond era is spectacular. 

It’s worth noting that the magazine dropped from monthly to six issues a year when she took over. I don’t have any insight into their finances, but that cannot have been a good sign. What Drummond has clearly done is take a storied magazine with a checkered past and absolutely rise to the moment. 

“I felt that one of the only ways to break through in media in this era was to break so much news that you become indispensable to an audience.” -Katie Drummond

WIRED during the second Trump administration has filled the space that the Washington Post occupied during the first Trump administration. It just keeps breaking news and holding power to account. Drummond and her team recognized that the way to build a loyal-and-growing subscriber base is by reporting the goddamn news.

Rossetto would hate it, I’m sure. Chris Anderson sure seems to hate it. The VCs despise it. They think Silicon Valley is the future and the tech press is supposed to be the future’s optimistic advance team.

But y’know what? Rossetto was embarrassing. The VCs are embarrassing. Techno-optimism has aged like raw milk. 

…Y’all see that Marc Andreessen interview where he brags about having zero introspection, and claims introspection didn’t exist 400 years ago? Embarrassing. Of course his crowd can’t deal with critical journalism. They can’t deal with anything! 

Y’all notice that Garry Tan’s sole solution to every criticism is “maybe one of my friends should just buy it.” Tan actually thinks that Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post and Patrick Soon-Shiong’s ownership of the LA Times has gone well. This is not a guy who is capable of learning new things."]]></description>
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    <title>Why Fiction? - Political Currents by Ross Barkan</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the age we’ve entered—this machine age, AI age, whatever it might be—the purpose of fiction is no less essential than it was a century ago. In fact, in these post-analog times, it might be what is required most. Not for a moral purpose—not to be a way to make “better” or more “empathetic” people—but for the need to reclaim, fully, personhood. The coming struggle might not be left vs. right or some other searing binary but human vs. anti-human. The anti-humanists are, for now, ascendant. They are interested, theoretically, in human augmentation, a cybernetic transcendence, but the greater purpose seems to be human replacement, with only a select few—a certain billionaire elect—presiding over the mass of machines. “It also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Sam Altman, the OpenAI founder, said recently. “It takes, like, 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took, like, the very widespread evolution of the hundred billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to, like, figure out science and whatever to produce you, and then you took whatever, you know, you took.”

“The fair comparison,” he continued, is “if you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy does it take once its model is trained to answer that question, versus a human? And probably, AI has already caught up on an energy-efficiency basis, measured that way.” 

Capitalism will always prize efficiency; efficiency, in isolation, is far from evil. Neither is technology—we do not want to live bereft of electricity, penicillin, or even the computer. Digital entertainments have their purpose, too. What makes this decade different is the desire of this new billionaire class to deny human beings their intellectual and creative essence. It might not happen, but that is the dream. That is what they are yearning towards. Some are more earnest about it than others, or more honest. And the production of novels—the act itself of writing fiction—is alien to these pursuits. What separates a human being from a machine? Consciousness. And what is consciousness? What has the human being been able to do for thousands of years that other animals, largely, cannot? Imagine. The imagination is the greatest gift we have—what’s forged the cathedrals and pyramids, the paintings and poetry, and, yes, even the machines. The automobile and airplane were works of imagination. The novel, in particular, is an imagination art. It flummoxes the Roy Lees of the world, this new rising class, because it is both fundamentally human and asks so much of a human, a reader. The writer of fiction and the reader of fiction are entered, together, into a relationship of the imagination. This relationship can, quite literally, transcend space and time. The writer, long dead, can still commune with the reader through their words, and readers themselves can span the centuries. Both the printed page and the internet can offer their own forms of immortality.

The novel still comes without instructions. As a reader, you might be offered descriptions, but it’s up to you to interpret them—to properly world-build. Your Yoknapatawpha County appears differently in your mind than my Yoknapatawpha County. Cinema can impose far more on the audience. All visual media does this. All of it, to varying degrees, is more passive than fiction, which asks for the fully-fired imagination and the suspension of belief. Journalism is vital for a democracy but most of it is not art—not even close. New Journalism can reach those heights, if there is an inherent danger to that approach because journalism, at its core, demands facts, and facts can run into conflict with art. A fact does not have an aesthetic. The superior aesthetic might be, in fact, untrue. Journalism can be stenography or it can be more interpretive, analytic, and investigative. Still, in those formulations, it does not attempt the higher planes of fiction. Much of nonfiction doesn’t. Literature has the spark of the divine because it is so inherently unexplainable. One can read scores of writing on how to craft a novel or properly consume literature, but there are lacunae inherent to all these explanations; there is a mysticism to the art of fiction that can’t be explicated, what Martin Amis had called the “white magic.” The communing of mind, body, and currents, the flow of image to fingertips, the dream of these creatures in your skull becoming transmuted into a language, maybe English, maybe another, and then this language is the mechanism that produces fresh images for the reader, fresh dreams. And the language, of course, is an aesthetic. Language is never merely utilitarian; language is art, language paints and is the painting. All of it is a miracle.

Fiction, the great imagination art, cannot be defeated as long as humanity exists. Both literally, in the furtherance of modern civilization, and in the current long war against the anti-humanists. The anti-humanists, themselves, have imaginations—AI is its own dream, derived in part from science fiction—but they are repelled by both the indulgences of fiction and its relative unruliness, its inability to offer quantifiable dividends. Why dwell within an author’s world? Why dream if you aren’t making money? Why must a writer dedicate so many hours to a craft that may not be popular or remunerative? The literary novelist, like the ancient monk, toils alone—even in groups, in scenes, the act of writing is solitary—and the only promised reward is the fueling of a spirit, the feeling that, on the level of blood, an important task was performed. As a writer, I, of course, conceive of the reader—anticipate the reader, hope for the reader’s approval—and chase worldly rewards, whatever they may be, but that simply isn’t enough, especially now. You have to want to perform the imagination art. You have to believe in it. You have to love it, or at least like it enough. Even those who suffer through writing do it because of that belief. It must matter. The writer who allows AI to perform the writing for him has lost that belief. He is an apostate. He is claiming religion while having none at all. He is a liar, a liar of the mind and the soul.

The anti-humanists insist AI is conscious. It is conscious now or will be soon. This is like offering a child a toy dog and telling him, repeatedly, the dog is real. Doesn’t it look like a dog? Can’t it bark if you press the button? The simulacra, for the anti-humanists, is always enough because they have experienced a form of spirit-death. Or they are unconsciously hoping, in time, to arrive there, to that stage. It takes a special kind of human—an unusual segment of the species—to long for the obsolescence of their own, to be so against their own. To resent, fully, flesh and blood and brain matter, the stunning complexities of human consciousness and all, in the past millennia, that has been achieved. To make art, humans have never required more than the basics of the machine world: a paintbrush, a chisel, a word-processor. The hierarchy has always been well understood. The machine is the tool of the human being to enhance the experience of being human. Tools are subordinate. Now, AI asks the human to be subordinate to the machine. Or, more accurately, AI asks nothing because it cannot “ask” anything. It is not alive. The anti-humanists make the ask. They’ve grown rich this way, and they’re rotted from within, like Dorian Gray. Except, unlike Dorian, they aren’t even very beautiful on the outside. They cannot entrance or seduce. They are, as a class, froggish and malformed, their mannerisms glitchy. They can’t willingly march us anywhere. They’ll have to do it by force.

I don’t write fiction as an act of rebellion. I do it because I love it and it gives my life meaning, and I believe, through my novels, I can make art and achieve beauty. I can exist in my highest form, as a worshipper might when in prayer. But it is fine, too, to conceive of fiction as rebellion. The more surreal, or hyperreal, our world becomes, the more fiction will need to be the ballast. The more we will need to duck away from the slopstreams, the smartphones, the machines that, like soma pumped into our bloodstreams, steal our agency away. Can it be done? On this score, I tend towards optimism. It is not optimism grounded in the actions the anti-humanists might take. I do not believe in Sam Altman, Roy Lee, or anyone else like them. Their intentions are to make money, unthinkable amounts of it, and they have no second or third order concerns. Rather, my hope resides with everyone else. The human beings who have still, in this decade, not forfeited themselves, not offloaded the act of imagination. Not long ago, there was an AI-generated video of a battle between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt that looked realistic enough and drove a few commentators to declare that moviemaking as we knew it was over. What more could there be, now that perfect images of celebrities could be created almost instantly, with passable audio? What was left for the human being? It was an infantile conception of art, mistaking, again, the simulacra for the greater purpose, why we strive to paint or sing or write or direct films in the first place. We do not care about a film because a computer has created a representation of Tom Cruise in front of us. We care about Joel in Risky Business, Maverick in Top Gun, and Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible series. Brad Pitt is not AI IP; he’s Tyler Durden, Aldo Raine, and Cliff Booth. Both men look like they look, but that’s beside the point. AI enthusiasts wouldn’t understand this—not really—because they don’t grasp the vitality of the human narrative. An actor tells a story on a screen. A machine can write a story and a machine can generate actors in the same way a machine can play chess. A chess fan isn’t less appreciative of Magnus Carlsen because a machine can perform his role. Chess retains its human dimension. Art will, too.

Humans are a story-telling species. Animals have consciousness, animals can feel pain, and the smart animals can communicate in the proximate way people can, but animals do not tell stories. Animal do not conceive art. It is art, and the quest for narrative, that separates the human from all else; for many thousands of years, this was a cause for celebration. Now the anti-humanists hope to stamp it out—slowly, then quickly. The machine will draw, the machine will act, the machine will write. The machine will perform an imitation of imagination, a weak echo, and its creators will hope the human audience will not care either way. That is the darkest outcome: not a world where, Matrix-like, artificial intelligence rises up, enslaves us, and saps our bioenergy to power their own dystopia. The actual outcome, if Altman and his ilk have their way, will be far more banal. Instead of cyborgs, we will have slopborgs, diminished, slothful human beings who have offered themselves up to AI so completely they let machines think and dream for them. Their critical and cultural sensibilities wither away. There is no audience, anymore, for any sort of art. Instead of the Matrix pods, humans will merely stay home, rotting in the digital abyss.

We aren’t there yet. People still do read, make music, watch films, and visit art museums. There is a culture, high and middle and low, even if it’s under attack. There’s an awareness, too, of the cultural and spiritual sickness of anti-humans. The AI revolution is not very popular. None of its progenitors are celebrated in a way Steve Jobs might have been, when Americans still had great faith in their tech innovators. Writers endure and readers endure. Print book sales are not in decline. Neither is live music. The imagination has an audience and a market. The question will be whether, in the next half century, it can keep both. We have to believe it will. That belief will come with friction; the stakes will grow ever higher. Much is on the line for the AI oligarchs. If enough of us do not take to their creations and make them economically viable, they will be out many billions, maybe begging for federal bailouts. They’ll battle to avoid that outcome as much as they possibly can. This next decade will be pivotal, for both the anti-humanists asserting their market position and the humanists trying to lay claim to what is sacred—and what has driven the progress of human civilization for thousands of years. We will have to preserve our right to imagine."

[via:
https://social.ayjay.org/2026/03/01/ross-barkan-people-still-do.html ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Chron coverage of the looming strike at the SF School District has been, at times, surprisingly good. This piece, by Jill Tucker, explains the position of the teacher’s union pretty well:

“We did not come to this decision lightly,” said United Educators of San Francisco President Cassondra Curiel. “We want to be in our classrooms and school sites with all of our students. …. The district has every opportunity to come with the spirit and proposals to make a deal,” Curiel said. “This is like, the homework is due at midnight, and it’s 11:59.”

On the other hand, the Chron editorial board has been, not surprisingly, horrible.

MissionLocal has done a great job of covering the breaking news.

The SF Standard has a typical analysis, saying the problem “has no easy solution.”

Let me put this in a bit of context.

The main demands of the union—paid dependent health care and better working conditions and staffing for special education—would cost about $35 million.

San Francisco added about twice that to the Police Department budget this year, despite the lowest crime rate in 50 years.

The Board of Supes just approved giving $40 million in tax benefits to a luxury hotel in Soma.

A starting SF cop earns $119,000 a year, which is more than most teachers make after decades on the job, even with advanced degrees. A starting SFUSD teacher makes $79,000 a year.

Cops get health care for their families. Teaches have to pay as much as $1,200 a month ($4,400 a year, or about 5 percent of their pay) for family health care.

Many cops make in the high six figures, and after 30 years, they can retire with family health care for life at 90 percent base pay. Very few SFUSD teachers make more than $130,000. Their pensions are about half what the cops get.

The cops get paid for their training; teachers take out loans to pay for theirs.

If you don’t think quality education is a public safety issue, then you should be on the spaceship to Mars with Elon Musk. Why not make it simple: Cops and teachers should have pay and benefit parity.

Meanwhile, almost every unionized city employee (outside of the teachers) gets paid family health benefits. Why can’t the teachers be on the same city system?

The Chron loves stupid red herrings like algebra in eighth grade, but missing from this entire discussion: Revenue. Since Prop. 13, most of the money for local schools in California comes from the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is running for president, has balanced this year’s budget without making any effort to bring in more money from the 188 billionaires in the state; in fact, he opposes the billionaire tax.

From the California Budget and Policy Center:

<blockquote>“Governor Newsom’s reluctance to propose meaningful revenue solutions to help blunt the harm of federal cuts undermines his posture to counter the Trump administration. While the governor’s budget maintains and protects many current state programs, it leaves millions of Californians worse off as a result of federal cuts. The proposal will leave many Californians without food assistance and health care coverage. 

“Californians are facing mounting affordability pressures alongside unprecedented federal harm, including brutal attacks on immigrant communities. The sweeping Republican megabill, H.R. 1, delivers massive tax giveaways to the wealthiest households and highly profitable corporations and increases funding for harmful immigration detention and deportation efforts, while slashing funding for Medi-Cal, CalFresh, and other essential supports that millions of families and low-wage workers rely on. The Legislature cannot allow the cruelty of the federal administration and the governor’s reluctance to act boldly to dictate our future — they must act decisively to protect communities, prevent additional harm, and invest in the well-being of all Californians.</blockquote>

Mayor Daniel Lurie wants the two sides to come together to settle the strike. But Lurie also opposes the billionaire tax, opposes both local CEO taxes, and has done nothing, nothing, to push Newsom, his pal and ally, to raise taxes on the very rich in this very rich state.

Budgets are a statement of priorities. Lurie and Newsom have made theirs clear: Cops are more important than teachers. Billionaires are more important than public schools.

(I have no problem paying police officers a good salary, even though the SFPD spends a lot of money on copaganda. But teachers are at least as important as cops to society, and if we can afford to hire 500 more cops at six-figure starting pay, we can afford to pay the current teaches enough to live in this city.)

Also: Just 0.005 percent of the estimated $1 trillion wealth of just San Francisco’s billionaires would fund everything SFUSD needs. The net wealth of these folks increased 20 percent in the past year.

It’s an absolute disgrace that the teachers have to go on strike to make a living wage and to save special ed.

Priorities, folks."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than 500 Palestinians have been killed since a US-brokered "ceasefire" was signed, which begs the question: Should journalists, in contextualising the story, really be calling this a “ceasefire”? As Israel signals it’s preparing to resume full-scale war, we examine how media silence, selective framing and restricted access help keep Gaza off the world’s screens.

Featuring:

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim - Senior analyst, Atlas Global Strategies
Diana Buttu - Palestinian lawyer
Muhammad Shehada - Visiting fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Daniel Levy - President, U.S./Middle East Project"]]></description>
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    <title>You are being misled about renewable energy technology. - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-03T21:30:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!
Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.

First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I

Jerry Rig Everything's video on battery recycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xrarUWVRQ

If you'd like a legal argument from an actual lawyer which highlights the uniquely strange and unchecked powers we have given DHS and ICE, this is worth a watch. I am not being hyperbolic in saying that this is a serious problem we need to face head on through abolishment, not reform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgNnbTrsgw
 
Here are a couple of corn ethanol vs. solar land use studies. There are more if you'd like to look for them.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/trading-some-corn-ethanol-land-solar-offers-tremendous-opportunity
https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Corn-Ethanol-Vs.-Solar-Analysis-V3-9-compressed.pdf

I'm not gonna post links to my socials or my Patreon here.

Take care of each other.

00:00 Intro
07:35 Some opening notes
10:14 Cars and all the oil they use
15:38 Photovoltaics and electric cars
18:59 A cost and opportunity comparison
22:33 Solar farms
30:35 A discussion of land use
38:29 A diversion on wind power
41:17 The materials in solar panels
50:52 What about the batteries?
1:02:41 The reasons I made this video
1:10:16 The reason I am who I am
1:16:35 Who the liars are and what we need to do about them."]]></description>
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    <title>On Tyranny - by Timothy Snyder - Thinking about...</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-02T05:48:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These are twenty lessons from the twentieth century I published seven years ago, first as a kind of online declaration, and then, with historical examples, in a pamphlet called On Tyranny.

They were written in advance of the first Trump presidency, and have been used since in the U.S. and around the world.

For those who want democracy and the rule of law in the United States after 2024, I would only add: now is the time to organize, to prepare to win locally and nationally, and to talk not only about what is to be lost but what can be gained.

I wrote On Tyranny in a defensive mode; but freedom is something not only to be defended but to be defined and to be celebrated. As for me, I believe that if we can get through the next year, things could get better. Much better.

For now, three years after Trump’s attempt to end democracy and the rule of law in the United States, a reminder of the lessons. I recall them now in then hope that I won’t have to do so again a year from now.

1. Do not obey in advance.  Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.  A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. 

2.  Defend institutions.  It is institutions that help us to preserve decency.  They need our help as well.  Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.  Institutions do not protect themselves.  They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.  So choose an institution you care about -- a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union -- and take its side.

3. Beware the one-party state.  The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start.  They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents.  So support the multiple-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections.  Vote in local and state elections while you can.  Consider running for office.

4. Take responsibility for the face of the world.  The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow.  Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate.  Do not look away, and do not get used to them.  Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

5. Remember professional ethics.  When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges.  Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.

6. Be wary of paramilitaries.  When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh.  When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.

7. Be reflective if you must be armed.  If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you.  But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things.  Be ready to say no.

8. Stand out.  Someone has to.  It is easy to follow along.  It can feel strange to do or say something different.  But without that unease, there is no freedom.  Remember Rosa Parks.  The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

9. Be kind to our language.  Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does.  Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying.  Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet.  Read books.

10. Believe in truth.  To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.  If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.  If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.  The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

11. Investigate.  Figure things out for yourself.  Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media.  Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you.  Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad).  Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.

12. Make eye contact and small talk.  This is not just polite.  It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society.  It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust.  If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.

13. Practice corporeal politics.  Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen.  Get outside.  Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.  Make new friends and march with them.

14. Establish a private life.  Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around.  Scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis.  Remember that email is skywriting.  Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less.  Have personal exchanges in person.  For the same reason, resolve any legal trouble.  Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you.  Try not to have hooks.

15. Contribute to good causes.  Be active in organizations, political or not, that express your own view of life.  Pick a charity or two and set up autopay.  Then you will have made a free choice that supports civil society and helps others to do good.

16. Learn from peers in other countries.  Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends in other countries.  The present difficulties in the United States are an element of a larger trend.  And no country is going to find a solution by itself.  Make sure you and your family have passports.

17. Listen for dangerous words.  Be alert to use of the words "extremism" and "terrorism."  Be alive to the fatal notions of "emergency" and "exception."  Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.  Modern tyranny is terror management.  When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power.  The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book.  Do not fall for it.

19. Be a patriot.  Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come.  They will need it.

20. Be as courageous as you can.  If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.

These lessons are the openings of the twenty chapters of On Tyranny, which has been updated to account for the Big Lie, the coup attempt, the war in Ukraine, and the risks we face in 2024.  On Tyranny has also been published in a beautiful graphic edition, illustrated by Nora Krug."]]></description>
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    <title>About now? So much to learn / ¿Sobre ahora? Tanto que aprender</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-02T05:46:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Humbly learning from On Tryanny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder [https://substack.com/@snyder ]. Here below, from his list [https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny ]. He had a great live Substack chat yesterday with Ava DuVernay. Watch it here. [https://snyder.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-ava-duvernay ]

    1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

    2. Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about -- a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union -- and take its side.

    3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multiple-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.

    4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

    5. Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.

    6. Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.

    7. Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.

    8. Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

    9. Be kind to our language. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

    10. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

    11. Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.

    12. Make eye contact and small talk. This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.

    13. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.

    14. Establish a private life. Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve any legal trouble. Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.

    15. Contribute to good causes. Be active in organizations, political or not, that express your own view of life. Pick a charity or two and set up autopay. Then you will have made a free choice that supports civil society and helps others to do good.

    16. Learn from peers in other countries. Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends in other countries. The present difficulties in the United States are an element of a larger trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports.

    17. Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to use of the words “extremism” and “terrorism.” Be alive to the fatal notions of “emergency” and “exception.” Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

    18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.

    19. Be a patriot. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.

    20. Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny."]]></description>
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    <title>Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why – On my Om</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-22T05:22:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or bad actors. The real answer has less to do with any single media entity and more with structural changes in the information ecosystem.

I started my “information” life typing copy on an ill-tempered Remington. As a teenage reporter, I saw newspapers being typeset, one letter at a time. It was a messy, slow, and laborious process. So I don’t carry romantic notions about the old days. I’ve been quick to embrace any technology that, in Stephen Covey’s words, helps me keep “the main thing the main thing.” The main thing is telling a thoroughly reported, well-written story.

The early 1990s Internet, followed by blogging at the turn of the century, and social media a decade later all helped me do that main thing. In the mid-2000s I embraced Dave Winer’s mantra of “sources going direct.” As far back as 2009, I outlined the coming changes in my essays “How Internet Content Distribution and Discovery Are Changing” and “Amplification and the Changing Role of Media.”

For the past decade and a half, the whole information ecosystem has become much larger, faster and noiser. It is hardly surprising that nothing works. And we feel a collective sense of overwhelming disappointment. 

So, why does nothing work?

Authority used to be the organizing principle of information, and thus the media. You earned attention by being right, by being first in discovery, or by being big enough to be the default. That world is gone. The new and current organizing principle of information is velocity.

What matters now is how fast something moves through the network: how quickly it is clicked, shared, quoted, replied to, remixed, and replaced. In a system tuned for speed, authority is ornamental. The network rewards motion first and judgment later, if ever. Perhaps that’s why you feel you can’t discern between truths, half-truths, and lies.

With so much coming at us all the time, it is difficult to give any single story or news event much weight. More content means already fragmented attention fractures even further. 

Greenland, Iran, Venezuela, Epstein Files, Dodgers. On and on.

Networks have always shaped how societies are organized. Roman roads didn’t just make travel easier; they mapped the reach of the state and the limits of power. Shipping routes determined where colonial empires flourished and where they faded. In the Victorian age, the railways didn’t just shorten journeys; they rearranged British society. 

They created commuting and leisure, turned market towns into suburbs, standardized national time, and collapsed the meaning of distance. They also reordered authority: timetables mattered as much as parliaments. What looks like cultural choice is often the echo of infrastructure. Today’s mobile, cloud-linked world is another Victorian moment. Networks compress time and space, then quietly train us to live at their speed.

That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has become the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken the role of the headline. The machine accelerates this dynamic. It demands constant material; stop feeding it and the whole structure shakes. The point of the internet now is mostly to hook attention and push it toward commerce, to keep the engine running. Anyone can get their cut.

Velocity has taken over. 

Algorithms on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter do not optimize for truth or depth. They optimize for motion. A piece that moves fast is considered “good.” A piece that hesitates disappears. There are almost no second chances online because the stream does not look back. People are not failing the platforms. People are behaving exactly as the platforms reward. We might think we are better, but we have the same rat-reward brain. 

We built machines that prize acceleration and then act puzzled that everything feels rushed and slightly manic. The networks of the past were slower and at a scale that was adaptable. I wrote about this years ago, and nothing since has disproved it. So when the author of “beliefs outrun facts” says nothing works, now you know why.

The fundamental network-level changes should give you a good idea of why we have a growing ambivalent relationship toward media as an organized information entity. I will get into technology media from startup perspective in a separate piece. For now, I will stick to the broader media ecosystem.

Let’s use YouTube technology reviews as a case study, because they are universally understandable. Take the launch of a new phone: when the embargo lifts, dozens of polished video reviews appear on YouTube. They run about 20 minutes, share similar thumbnails, and use the same mood lighting. The reviewers had access to the phones before everyone else, so they had time to prepare their reviews.

In the old days, before the current phase of content abundance, folks like Walt Mossberg, Ed Baig, David Pogue, and Steven Levy were often the first to get Apple products for review. Sure, these folks had big platforms, but that head startgave them a lot of clout, which meant many non-Apple companies offered them early access to their products. I never felt cheated or misled by their reviews, though I did notice what they omitted after using the product for a few months.

These days, things are markedly different. For YouTubers, access is the currency of survival. Access, of course, means suggested talking points. Again, nothing new. What’s different is that every reviewer knows that if they paint outside the lines, they’ll lose access. If you don’t have the review out when the embargo lifts, it doesn’t matter if you have a better review; no one is going to notice.

The system rewards whoever speaks first, not whoever lives with it long enough to understand it. The “review” at launch outperforms the review written two months later by orders of magnitude. The second, longer, more in-depth, more honest review might as well not exist. It’s not that people are less honest by nature. It’s that the structure pays a premium for compliance and levies a tax on independence. The result is a soft capture where creators don’t have to be told what to say. The incentives do the talking.

We built systems that reward acceleration, then act surprised when everything feels rushed, shallow, and slightly manic. People do what the network rewards. Writers write for the feed. Photographers shoot for the scroll. Newsrooms frame stories as conflict because conflict travels faster than nuance. Even our emotional lives adapt to latency and refresh cycles. The design of the network becomes the choreography of daily life.

In older networks, the constraints were physical. The number of train lines limited where cities could grow. The number of printing presses limited how many voices could speak. In our case, the constraint is temporal: how fast something can be produced, clicked, shared, and replaced. When velocity becomes the scarcest resource, everything orients around it. This is why it’s wrong to think of “the algorithm” as some quirky technical layer that can be toggled on and off or worked around. The algorithm is the culture. It decides what gets amplified, who gets to make a living, and what counts as “success.”

Once velocity is the prize, quality becomes risky. Thoughtfulness takes time. Reporting takes time. Living with a product or an idea takes time. Yet the window for relevance keeps shrinking, and the penalty for lateness is erasure. We get a culture optimized for first takes, not best takes. The network doesn’t ask if something is correct or durable, only if it moves. If it moves, the system will find a way to monetize it.

The algorithm doesn’t care whether something is true; it cares whether it moves. Day-one content becomes advertising wearing the mask of criticism.

All of this folds back into a larger point. When attention is fragmented and speed becomes the dominant value, media rearranges itself around that reality. Not because anyone wakes up wanting to mislead people, but because the context makes some paths survivable and others impossible.

The YouTube algorithm is the real enforcer because it rewards velocity. Get into the algorithmic slip stream and you get the numbers and make money. So it is no surprise that most day-one reviews are, well, anything but. This goes back to my original premise that when velocity becomes the defining metric, authority is displaced.

You don’t need to be right; you need to be first in the feed. Generalize this beyond YouTube tech reviews and you see the same pattern everywhere. I’m flabbergasted by how much good journalism goes unnoticed every day. We didn’t just put journalism, entertainment, politics, and private lives on networks. We let the networks rewrite what those things are forand how they work.

None of what I am saying is new. Decades ago the media sage Marshall McLuhan summed it up in his timeless phrase, “The medium is the message.” The medium, the technology or channel of communication, influences society and individuals more profoundly than the content, altering our senses and habits and, in turn, our perception, interaction, and culture. The only difference is that network is like a hydra, and data is the fuel that adds velocity, the new metric of perceived reality.

The cost of all this isn’t abstract. It’s the review that took three months, and no one will read it. It’s the investigation that requires patience. It’s the work of understanding before passing judgment. All of it still exists, still gets made. It just doesn’t travel. In a system where only what travels matters, we’ve made expertise indistinguishable from noise.

The cost of all this isn’t abstract. It’s the review that took three months but no one will read. It’s the investigation that required patience. It’s the work of understanding something before declaring judgment. All of it still exists, still gets made. It just doesn’t travel. And in a system where only what travels matters, we’ve made expertise indistinguishable from noise.

In the age of AI, will any of this matter when our idea of information will be entirely different?"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Posing as a civil rights group, the ADL has long operated as an intelligence organization targeting Israel’s critics. So why does the media still treat it as a credible source?"

[via:

"It’s worse than we thought..." (James Li)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6W1mKIjr8

"In this episode of 51-49, James exposes the authoritarian reality behind the ADL’s facade, moving from Jonathan Greenblatt’s admission of a 24/7 FBI-coordinated surveillance network to the infiltration of AI models and Evangelical curricula, ultimately revealing how a tax-exempt non-profit has morphed into a hostile intelligence apparatus prioritizing foreign interests over American civil liberties."]]]></description>
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    <title>Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-31T08:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/francesca-albanese-and-the-lonely</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The U.N. special rapporteur is one of the most courageous crusaders against the genocide in Gaza. Because of this, she is blacklisted and treated as if she is a terrorist."

...

"NICE, France — It is a late November afternoon. I am driving to Genoa, Italy with Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. We are traveling to join striking dockworkers. The dockworkers call for a moratorium on weapons bound for Israel and a halt to the Italian government’s plans to increase military spending.

We speed past the inky waters of Baie des Anges on our right and the razor-backed French Alps on our left. Châteaus and clusters of houses with red-tiled roofs, shrouded in the fading light, are perched on the rolling hillsides. Palm trees line the seafront road.

Francesca — tall with flecks of gray in her hair and wearing large black-framed glasses and hoop earrings — is the bête noire of Israel and the United States. She was placed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of the U.S. Treasury Department — normally used to sanction those accused of money laundering or being involved with terrorist organizations — six days after the release of her report, “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide.”

The OFAC list — weaponized by the Trump administration to persecute Francesca and in clear violation of the diplomatic immunity granted to U.N. officials — prohibits any financial institution from having someone on the list as a client. A bank that permits someone on the OFAC list to engage in financial transactions is banned from operating in dollars, faces multimillion-dollar fines and is blocked from international payment systems.

In her report, Francesca lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with banks and financial firms such as BlackRock, insurers, real estate firms and charities, which in violation of international law, are making billions from the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians.

The report, which includes a database of over 1,000 corporate entities that collaborate with Israel, demands these firms and institutions sever ties with Israel or be held accountable for complicity in war crimes. It describes “Israel’s “forever-occupation” as “the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and big tech — providing boundless supply and demand, little oversight and zero accountability — while investors and private and public institutions profit freely.”

You can see my interview about the report with Francesca here.

Francesca, whose previous reports including “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime” and “Genocide as colonial erasure” along with her empassioned denunciations of Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza, have made her a lightning rod. She is excoriated every time she deviates from the approved script, including when pro-Palestine demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa while we were in Italy.

Francesca condemned the incursion and property destruction — protesters scattered newspapers and spray-painted slogans on the walls such as “Free Palestine” and “Newspapers complicit with Israel” — but added that it should serve as a “warning to the press” to do its job. That qualification expressed her frustration with the media’s discrediting of the reporting of Palestinian journalists — over 278 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel since Oct. 7 along with over 700 of their family members — and uncritical amplification of Israeli propaganda. But it was seized upon by her critics, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to lynch her.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions on Francesca in July.

“The United States has repeatedly condemned and objected to the biased and malicious activities of Albanese that have long made her unfit for service as a Special Rapporteur,” the State Department’s press release read. “Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West. That bias has been apparent across the span of her career, including recommending that the ICC, without a legitimate basis, issue arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.”

“She has recently escalated this effort by writing threatening letters to dozens of entities worldwide, including major American companies across finance, technology, defense, energy, and hospitality, making extreme and unfounded accusations and recommending the ICC [International Criminal Court ] pursue investigations and prosecutions of these companies and their executives,” it went on. “We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty.”

The sanctions followed those imposed in February and June on the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan along with two judges for issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

Francesca is barred from entering the U.S. even to appear at the United Nations in New York City, to present one of her two annual reports. The other is delivered at the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Francesca’s assets in the U.S. have been frozen, including her bank account and her U.S. apartment. The sanctions cut her off from the international banking system, including blocking her use of credit cards. Her private medical insurance refuses to reimburse her medical expenses. Hotel rooms booked under her name have been cancelled. She can only operate using cash or by borrowing a bank card.

Institutions, including U.S. universities, human rights groups, professors and NGOs, that once cooperated with Francesca, have severed ties, fearful of penalties established for any U.S. citizen who collaborates with her. She and her family receive frequent death threats. Israel and the U.S. have mounted a campaign to get her removed from her U.N post.

Francesa is proof that when you stand steadfastly with the oppressed, you will be treated like the oppressed.

She is unsure if her book, “When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine,” which has been translated into English and is expected to be released in April next year, will be distributed in the U.S.

“I’m a sanctioned person,” she says ruefully.

But she is not cowed. Her next salvo will be a report that documents the torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. While torture, she says, was “not widespread,” before Oct. 7, it has now become ubiquitous. She is collecting testimonies of those released from Israeli detention.

“It reminds me of the stories and testimonies I read from Argentina’s dictatorship,” Francesca tells me. “It’s that bad. It’s systemic torture against the same people. The same people are taken, raped and brought back, taken, raped and brought back.”

“Women?” I ask.

“Both,” she answers.

“To have women tell you they have been raped, multiple times. They’ve been asked to masturbate soldiers. This is incredible,” Francesca says. “For a woman to say that. Imagine what they have endured? There are people who have lost their words. They cannot talk. They cannot speak after what they’ve endured.”

Establishment media organizations, she says, not only dutifully parrot back Israeli lies, but routinely block reporting that reflects negatively on Israel.

“In April, I reported the first cases of sexual harassment and rape that had taken place in January and February 2024,” she says. “People didn’t want to listen. The New York Times interviewed me for two hours. Two hours. They didn’t write a line about it.”

“The Financial Times had — because of the relevance of the topic — an embargo’d version of ‘From economy of occupation to economy of genocide,’” she says. “They didn’t publish it. They didn’t even publish a review, an article, days after the press conference. But they did publish a critique of my report. I had a meeting with them. I said, ‘This is really depressing. Who are you? Are you paid for the work you do? Who are you loyal to, your readers?’ I pushed them. They said, ‘Well, we didn’t find that it was up to our standards.’”

This, I tell her, is how the New York Times would spike stories by reporters that editors deem too incendiary.

“They discredit your sources regardless of what your sources are,” I tell her. “That becomes the vehicle by which they don’t publish. This isn’t a good faith discussion. They’re not giving a fair analysis of what your sources are. They are categorically dismissing them. They’re not telling you the truth, which is, ‘We don’t want to deal with Israel and the Israel lobby.’ That’s the truth. They don’t say that. It is always, ‘It’s not up to our standards.’”

“There is no free media, no free press in Italy anymore,” Francesca laments. “There is, but it’s fringe or on the margins. It is an exception. The main newspapers are held by groups connected to big powers, financial and economic powers. The government controls — directly or indirectly — much of Italian TV.”

The drift towards fascism in Europe and the United States, Francesca says, is intimately tied to the genocide, as is the emerging resistance.

“There is a brewing anger and dissatisfaction with political leadership in Europe,” she says. “There is also a fear that lingers in many countries because of the rise of the right. We’ve been there. There are people who have living memories of fascism in Europe. The scars of Nazi-fascism are still there, even the trauma. People cannot process what has happened and why it’s happened. Palestine has shocked people. Italians in particular. Maybe because we are who we are in the sense that we cannot be silenced that easily, we cannot be scared as has happened to the Germans and the French. I was shocked in France. The fear and repression is incredible. It is not as bad as Germany, but it’s much worse than it was two years ago. The minister of education in France cancelled an academic conference on Palestine at the Collège de France — the highest institution in France. The minister of education! And he bragged about it.”

Francesca says our only hope now is civil disobedience, embodied in actions such as strikes that disrupt commerce and government or the attempts by the flotillas to reach Gaza.

“The flotillas created this sense of ‘Oh, something can be done,’” she says. “We are not powerless. We can make a difference even in shaking the ground, rocking the boat. Then the workers have come in. The students have already been mobilized. There has been a sense through the various protests that we can still change things. People have started to connect the dots.”

Francesca presented her 24-page report “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime” to the U.N. General Assembly in October, a report that had to be delivered remotely from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa, because of the sanctions.

Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, following her presentation, said, “Ms. Albanese, you are a witch and this report is another page in your spellbook.” He accused her of trying to “curse Israel with lies and hatred.”

“Every page of this report is an empty spell, every accusation, a charm that does not work, because you are a failed witch,” Danon continued.

“It triggered a moment of enlightenment.” Francesca says of the insults. “I connected it to the injustice that women have suffered through the centuries.”

“What is happening to the Palestinians and to those who are speaking out for the Palestinians, is the 2025 equivalent of burning witches in the public square,” she goes on. “It was done to scientists and theologians who didn’t align with the Catholic Church. It was done to women who held the power of herbs. It was done to religious minorities, to indigenous people, like the Sámi people.”

“Palestine,” Francesca says, “has opened a portal to history, to where we come from and to what we risk if we don’t pull the brakes.”"]]></description>
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    <title>In Indian Country, the Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Think | The Futurology Podcast - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-29T21:05:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHYXFu7GWGg</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/05wdNNP8tuhy2XDvIg5e3d
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-sovereignty-is-closer-than-you/id1821718921?i=1000742483803 ]

"The current world order seeks to make sovereignty simple. One map. One flag. One final authority. But in Indian Country, the borders break down. Tribal nations govern alongside the United States, and sovereignty overlaps in real, everyday ways. This isn’t a historical footnote. It’s the future, hiding in plain sight.

In this episode, Graham Brewer – the AP’s National Correspondent covering native lands and peoples – traces what sovereignty looks like when power overlaps and treaty promises from the 19th century adapt to the 21st. That negotiation is now playing out in the cloud: as languages are revived and culture moves onto servers. By its nature, the training of AI frontier models plunders native wisdom, but fully opting out risks another century of invisibility.

Chapters
Introduction - (0:00)
University of Oklahoma: Grant and Graham’s Shared Background - (3:48)
The Indigenous Journalists Association - (6:27)
Why Newsrooms Still Overlook Native Communities - (10:08)
What Oklahoma Schools Teach About Native History - (15:48)
Reporting on Oklahoma’s Prisons and Executions - (23:30)
Covering the Death Penalty: The Role of Witnesses - (27:51)
Clayton Lockett: The Execution That Caught National Attention - (34:49)
Journalism Today: Ethics, Media Distrust, and TikTok Journalists - (38:38)
Indigenous Journalism: Covering Native Communities Responsibly - (41:42)
Leonard Peltier and the Idea of “Aboriginal Sin” - (46:42)
Objectivity and Activism in Journalism - (51:01)
Imagining Indigenous Life Before Settler Colonialism - (59:20)
Treaties and Promises in Today’s Politics - (1:05:37)
State and Tribal Dual Sovereignty in Oklahoma - (1:07:33)
McGirt v. Oklahoma and Its Impact on Tribal Governance - (1:12:04)
Sovereign Internets and Indigenous Data Sovereignty - (1:19:10)
Large Language Models and Indigenous Languages - (1:29:18)
What Indigenous Worldviews Can Teach Us in a Climate Crisis - (1:33:58)
Closing: What Are We Wrong About Now? - (1:35:08)

Graham Brewer
https://apnews.com/author/graham-lee-brewer
https://x.com/grahambrewer

Subscribe to Futurology on your favorite listening platform
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/futurology/id1821718921

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Anywhere you get your podcasts 
https://linkin.bio/futurology/

Resources
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — David Graeber & David Wengrow (Book, 2021) 
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything/

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears — Theda Perdue & Michael D. Green (Book, 2007)
https://www.amazon.com/Cherokee-Penguin-Library-American-History/dp/0143113674

Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance — Leonard Peltier (Book, 1999)
https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/prison-writings

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) — U.S. Congress (U.S. law, 1990)
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) — United Nations General Assembly (UN declaration, 2007)
https://social.desa.un.org/issues/indigenous-peoples/united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples

Music Modernization Act — U.S. Congress (U.S. law, 2018)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1551

McGirt v. Oklahoma — Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court case, 2020)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-9526_9okb.pdf

Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta — Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court case, 2022)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-429_8o6a.pdf

Treaty of New Echota — Cherokee Nation and United States Government (Treaty, 1835)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota "]]></description>
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    <title>The News: Fool Me All the Time? I Must Be an Editor of the New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-25T17:03:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the waning years of apartheid, the New York Times bureau chief in Johannesburg was Christopher Wren. His coverage used to drive me nuts, because Wren always worked from the premise that what the government said was the starting point for the news, even if it was the apartheid government, a government that had a singular ideological perspective that it dogmatically enforced at all times. That wasn’t just a in-public commitment, either. In the last decade, I’ve been working on the Cold War era in sub-Saharan Africa primarily through American and UK archives and whether I’m reading in the mid-1950s all the way into the 1980s, I come across American and British officials, many of them politically conservative and fairly racist in their own right, expressing exasperation to one another over the delusional stridency of government officials from Pretoria in any meeting or conference they were included in. In Wren’s reportage, this meant that anything that people from the ANC, UDF, or other opposition group said about events in South Africa was treated as the biased opinion of people who had a reason to bend the truth and anything the government said at least started as factual. In either case, Wren might accept that his reportage had an investigative responsibility, but it went in different directions. To move from the government’s truth took investigative work to prove it false; to move from the opposition’s truth took investigative work to prove that it had some degree of accuracy.

I happened to be in the audience at an event where Wren spoke about his career after retirement. I took the opportunity to ask him why he had shaped his reporting in that way, given that after the end of apartheid, much of what he took to be rumor or ideologically-motivated claims about government-coordinated violence and apartheid propaganda were verified, and the depths of apartheid malfeasance, even with the destruction of many official records in the early 1990s, was revealed. I think the question confused him. I don’t think I was confusing in how I asked it. Inasmuch as he had an answer, it was that this is how reporting, especially foreign correspondence, worked. Governments had to be the starting place. A reporter, especially from somewhere else, couldn’t be expected to have a situational and local understanding of who to trust and who not to trust.

With many American dailies in the last half of the 20th Century, it wasn’t quite that straightforward. The Cold War provided one kind of structuring principle. Communist governments were presumed by reporters to be engaged in deception, Western governments were not. (Even though a fair number of American and European journalists were fully aware that the UK, US and French governments had sustained projects aimed at creating disinformation about their perceived adversaries.) Often this extended to the Global South: postcolonial governments were also assumed to be at the least unreliable in the information they provided, and this was a view that extended to individuals—often on the belief that both officials and ordinary people were simply not competent curators of information nor responsible witnesses to events.

This is a foundational perspective that remains in place in the mainstream legacy media in the United States. I’ve come to the conclusion that one reason the New York Times in particular is proving to be so accommodating to Trumpism is not any affection for Trump himself but that the upper editorial staff were feeling increasingly disoriented and frightened by pressures to change these kinds of deep assumptions—that they increasingly felt that an initiative like the 1619 Project had been an alien and unwanted intrusion into the correct way to see the world.

There have been other moments of similar disorientation in the history of mainstream American media. The struggle over whether to print the Pentagon Papers, whether to report on the COINTELPRO revelations, or whether to continue to investigate Watergate was not just about fear of legal and political retaliation, it was that all these stories made the world topsy-turvy. The government’s information was full of lies; the whistle-blowers and the leftist activists were the only place to get something like the truth. Later on, when Raymond Bonner and Alma Guillermoprieto reported in 1982 for the New York Times and Washington Post respectively that the Reagan-supported government in El Salvador had massacred over 800 villagers in El Mozote, both reporters were criticized not just by the American government but by some journalists for putting what ordinary people and the guerillas opposing the government said about what had happened ahead of official accounts. The editor at the NYT, Abe Rosenthal, was notorious for his intense anti-Communism, and eventually pulled Bonner from the assignment. And of course the American press, including Bill Keller of the New York Times, were notoriously devoted to reproducing what the US government said about the post 9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as truth until long after it became clear just how much was being concealed from the public—and once again, this involved a very deliberate ordering of truth that saw all criticism as fundamentally ideological, motivated and biased, whereas government-provided information started as default truth and had to be proven to be false or inaccurate before reporters could begin to deviate from its account of events.

I don’t think this is just the ideological bent of reporters and editors, Abe Rosenthal’s anti-Communism or Bill Keller’s liberal-hawk desire to demonstrate his patriotism notwithstanding. Mainstream journalists are here just a peninsula of a vast mainland that also counts among its inhabitants historians. No matter how determined I might be to read against the grain and render history “from below”, the fact is that as a historian of the 19th and 20th Centuries, most of my work rests on the vast torrents of information produced by governments, both for their publics and for themselves. Even the archives that trace their origin back to civil society live in the shadow of information flowing from and to governments. The professionalization of expertise in the 20th Century has almost always involved some form of quasi-statutory blessing by governments: a license, a credential, a testing process, the provision of data about expert or regulatory activity. (This is why it is so notable when a particular branch of government or a particular group of experts aggressively exempt themselves from requirements to produce official, authenticated data about their activities—say, in the resistance of U.S. police forces to tracking their discharge of weapons while on the job.)

Over time, however, most people whose jobs center on producing information and knowledge have learned how to keep their distance from and lessen their dependence on government-provisioned information—to think more critically about how archives came to be, how data is created and stored, how the world looks from inside of official power, to understand how classification regimes shape what circulates and what remains hidden.

Mainstream American journalists, on the other hand, are if anything worse at this aspect of their jobs at the present moment than at any time after the Pandora’s Box of Watergate was fully opened. That epiphany swung both ways for journalists in the 1980s and 1990s. It made many of them face just how much they’d facilitated substantive and consequential lies by political leaders in the past, not so much to cultivate their sources but just because that’s what you did if you were one of the boys. It made many of them recognize that starting from a default position that the government provided the truth you had to dig into was naive. Despite the reversion to form after 9/11, the profession seemed like it might be headed to the position that truth might start anywhere, that you really didn’t know what version of truth to stand behind until you dug into it with as few priors as possible.

Now, on the other hand, we’re faced with a mainstream press that gets lied to as a routine matter in the most unpracticed and amateurish ways, but that still insists on starting from what they’re told as a default.

Are Somalis garbage people who hate America? We’re looking into it! Did the Secretary of War order another attack on people clinging to a destroyed boat? We’ll check it out! Are tariffs are part of a coordinated plan to bring high-paying industrial jobs back to the United States? Well, despite there being no evidence of something you might call a plan, we’ll act as if this is the case until it’s proven otherwise.

Journalists, pundits and public commenters keep marveling that somehow the Trump White House gets away with it, that blatant lies and laughable delusions that would have brought any previous regime crashing down don’t amount to anything. If I were to witness a fatal hit-and-run accident and I wrote down the license plate of the car that sped off, I’m not entitled to marvel that the driver got away with it if I didn’t tell the police that I was a witness and didn’t provide the license number. The driver didn’t get away with it. I chose to help him escape the consequences.

I understand the point that pervasive, reflexive mistrust of every claim made by government officials and mainstream institutions has been one of the major reasons why disinformation and conspiracy theory have flourished in the last two decades. But this is not the fault of people who moved to a more skeptical regard for governmental authority and more openness to the truth-value of everyday witnessing and interpretation in the wider society. It is the fault of governments that lied while claiming to tell the truth, the fault of institutions that let lawyers tell them how to minimize liability rather than keep faith with their publics, the fault of politicians and public figures trying to escape the consequences for misconduct.

We are not going to re-establish trust in public knowledge because mainstream legacy journalists simply decide that they’ll return to reporting what the government says as the starting point for truth even when its falsehood is evident, or treating truth as something that has to be matched exactly to the distribution of voting preferences or partisan loyalties. It’s not even-handedness to treat each successive statement by an assembly of known liars as if this time it might be true until it is shown otherwise. It’s not just that the political appointees in the Administration lie routinely, it is that they are engaged in a systematic effort to destroy or contaminate the many forms of government-published data and evidence that have previously made it possible to evaluate the relative truthfulness or probity of government officials. There has never been a time where it is more urgently necessary to flip the script: if the Trump Administration says it, presume it’s an instrumental and conscious lie, and require them to produce reliable, objective, independent evidence to the contrary for the story to be written as anything different.

That’s the job. It doesn’t even take the courage that journalists in more thoroughly authoritarian states have to muster in order to do that job. At least not yet. I don’t think papers like the New York Times are managing their risk or feeling out the boundaries for what they can get away with. I think they’re stuck in long-set habits of thought and feeling righteously resentful about recent attempts to shake those habits loose. Now is not the time to get hung up on the time that the new reporter piously corrected the senior editor about the proper way to talk about transwomen. Don’t lecture people about the dangers of playing with matches while there’s a five-alarm fire happening right behind you. "]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-12-13T04:31:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Israel commits genocide while demanding its neighbours demilitarise | Jeremy Scahill | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
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We also discuss the collapse of the 2025 cease-fire, the regional implications of Syria’s political shift, and the contrasting strategies of Gulf states as the war reshapes regional power.

Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of The Intercept and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Gaza as a Killing Cage
09:00 Private Warfare Legacy
18:00 US–Israel Power Structure
27:00 Aid as a Weapon
36:00 Cease-fire Breakdown
46:00 Regional Shifts Explained
55:00 Criminalising Dissent"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice."]]></description>
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    <title>How U.S. Media Sold Genocide - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-04T23:40:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz3McsJfimo</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dena Takruri speaks to Assal Rad about how badly legacy media has failed at one of its most important jobs: covering war crimes and genocide. 

Sources referenced in this video: 

The Intercept: “Coverage of Gaza War in The New York Times And Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows”: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palestine-bias-new-york-times/
 
UN Report: “More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023”: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session58/a-hrc-58-crp-6.pdf

The Intercept: “‘Between The Hammer and the Anvil’: The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé”: https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

South Africa’s Genocide case against Israel: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240111-ora-01-00-bi.pdf
 
Al-Shabaka Report: “The Gaza Genocide in Western Media: Culprits of Complicity”: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/the-gaza-genocide-in-western-media-culprits-of-complicity/ "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Tech fascism didn’t rise in secret — it grew in plain sight. Why didn't most journalists or politicians notice?

In this episode of The Nerd Reich Podcast, host Gil Duran speaks with legendary tech critic Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, the prophetic book that warned about the rise of Silicon Valley authoritarianism and technofascism decades before Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the far-right tech elite took power.

We dive deep into how Silicon Valley’s toxic libertarianism evolved into a global far-right propaganda machine, why tech journalists failed to sound the alarm, and what happens next as AI, surveillance, and billionaire power reshape democracy.

🔥 Chapters & Highlights:
– Tech Fascism 101: How Silicon Valley Went Authoritarian
– The Forgotten Critic: Paulina Borsook and Cyberselfish
– Why Journalists Worshipped Tech Billionaires
– Elon Musk’s X and the Global Far-Right Network
– The Toxic Masculinity Problem in Tech
– Can Democracy Survive Tech Fascism?

💬 Join the conversation in the comments: 
Why did the media fail to warn us about tech fascism? 
How do we stop the tech billionaires now?

And Please Support Paulina Borsook: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-paulina-disabled-writer-artist-and-activist "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A consortium of journalists is revealing how the industry influences governments in Latin America and globally."]]></description>
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    <title>No One Trusts The New York Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A flowchart: On top, a large oval is labeled “Should I defend the New York Times on social media?” below it is a single arrow pointing to a box labeled “No.”

For my purposes today, the main thing to notice is how quickly a preponderance of posters were ready to believe that the entire top brass at the Times had colluded to cover up evidence of ties between Epstein and Trump, at virtually the exact same time they were in full 🚨 B U T 🚨 H E R 🚨 E M A I L S 🚨 mode about Hillary Clinton. Because here’s the thing: no one trusts the New York Times.

Now look, pace Spiers here, the Times is an enormous, shambolic, and multifaceted institution. There is no one univocal actor that could be described as “the New York Times.” I myself talked to the Times’ Madison Malone Kircher last month about the death of “going viral,” and I thought the story she wrote was both accurate and interesting, and I didn’t have any concerns that anyone was going to accuse me of being funded by Hamas. But on the other hand, I have trans children in my family and I definitely wouldn’t talk about that with the Times. In fact I didn’t.

There are a number of Times reporters and staff I consider at least friendly acquaintances, and I know some of them are reading this right now, and I also know they probably know all of this better than I do. When I say “no one trusts the Times” I hope they understand I’m being a little hyperbolic, but not all that much. I hope they’re at least as bothered by the question as I am.

But for the rest of us, for American news readers, is it a problem that significant cohorts of the news reading public have good reason to simply not trust that the New York Times will attempt to report the truth? The L.A. Times, CNN, and CBS have been taken over by far right ideologues. The Washington Post just reached the point in its own media organization collapse cycle where it announces it’s giving micropayments a try, which tells me that the decline in real subscriptions is proving sustained and durable. And why wouldn’t it, with the Post running this sort of bullshit in unsigned editorials now?

As reluctant as it might be organizationally to fill this role, the New York Times is one of our last major news organizations that hasn’t yet been fully and overtly captured by the far right. So I think it does matter that for the past decade at least, the newspaper’s credibility has been systematically fed into a wood chipper in the interests of transphobes, eugenicists, campus culture grifters, and the pro-genocide wing of the Zionist movement. I think Times should stop doing that. "]]></description>
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    <title>Literary Hub » Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-09T17:09:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Former Chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College
Would Prefer Not To"

[See also this response from Jesse Singal:

"If You Can’t Accurately Quote Someone, Why Should I Believe Anything You Write?
Example #234234234 of intellectual rot in left-of-center spaces"
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/if-you-cant-accurately-quote-someone

via
https://blog.ayjay.org/the-acceleration-of-misrepresentation/ ]]]></description>
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Check out her article, "Hegemony factories or independent thinkers? Western think tanks on Israel and Palestine after October 7" 

https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/hegemony-factories-or-independent-thinkers "

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/38893280
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/public-opinion-is-vastly-different-than-the-elites-w-mandy-turner ]]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? - The New York Times</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6S5APd8aa0">
    <title>Biden Whistleblower: U.S. Covered Up Israel’s Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In May, we released our acclaimed investigative documentary ‘Who Killed Shireen?’ that uncovered the identity of the Israeli soldier who killed Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. Six months later, the ripple effects of our film continue to make waves as one of its key anonymous sources finally steps out from the shadows.

Steve Gabavics, a retired US Army Colonel and military policeman, who was the only US military official at the time to carry out an on-the-ground US examination of Shireen’s killing in the occupied West Bank in 2022, joins Mehdi in an exclusive, remarkable, and in-person interview that details the Biden administration’s complicity in the cover-up of her murder.

Gabavics tells Mehdi “there was not a significant effort by the US government” to find Shireen’s killer, adding that the US was “not willing to have them [Israel] hold responsibility for killing an American because we [US] did not want to upset the apple cart, shall we say, between the relationships between Israel and the United States.”

Gabavics’ testimony of the Biden Administration’s handling of Shireen’s case is crucial for many reasons, namely the fact that his initial assessment reflected what he saw on the ground: that the killing of Shireen – a journalist clearly identified with a press jacket and helmet – was intentional, and it was carried out by the Israeli military and not Palestinian gunmen (as the Israeli government falsely claimed at the time).

Gabavics’ assessment was rejected, and in its place, the word of the Israeli military’s Central Command head, Gen. Yehuda Fox, became the mainstream narrative.

*This interview was published over a week ago on zeteo.com. If you would like early access to exclusive content like this, then head over to Zeteo’s substack and become a paid subscriber now! Your support matters.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Revealing Identity
03:25 Investigation
5:00 Assessment
07:27 Rejection
11:00 Soldier Responsible
12:48 Biden"]]></description>
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    <title>Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-02T20:52:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life."

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[on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxggd1EJGMk ]]]></description>
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    <title>Mapping news creators and influencers in social and video networks | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["News creators and influencers operating in social and video networks have become a significant source of news in recent years. Our own Reuters Institute Digital News Report indicates that personalities and news creators often eclipse traditional news brands in terms of attention when using certain social and video networks (Newman et al. 2023, 2024, 2025). Pew Research finds that around a fifth (21%) of adults in the United States (US) and more than a third of Under-30s (37%) now regularly get news from so-called creators or influencers, with the majority of these saying that the way these personalities present the news helps them better understand current events and civic issues (Stocking et al. 2024).

Creators are also having an increasingly important political impact, with Donald Trump courting popular YouTubers and podcasters such as Joe Rogan and the Nelk Boys in the run-up to his 2024 election victory. The recent murder of activist and podcaster Charlie Kirk, and the coverage of the aftermath, reminds us of the critical role these personalities are now playing in shaping both public opinion and political narratives. In other parts of the world, politicians such as Emmanuel Macron (France),1 Anthony Albanese (Australia),2 Claudia Sheinbaum (Mexico),3 and Keir Starmer (UK)4 have also been taking notice of these trends, incorporating social media influencers into their media strategies, prioritising interviews with TikTokkers and YouTubers – as well as inviting them to government briefings. Elsewhere, in countries where press freedom is under threat or where debate in mainstream media is restricted, we have seen creators and influencers playing a different role – providing a much-needed source of critical or alternative views.

Online influencers may be attracting more attention but at least some of their content is considered unreliable by audiences (Newman et al. 2025), with well-documented cases of false or misleading information around subjects such as politics, health, and climate change raising important questions about what this might mean for our democracies.

In this report we aim to show how the trend towards online and social media news influencers is developing in 24 countries around the world. Using an audience-based approach we identify countries where influencers are having the biggest (and smallest) impact as well as some of the most important individuals. We also provide an emerging typology or categorisation of news creators, while recognising the inherent difficulties in this process given the diversity of styles, overlapping approaches, and broad range of content.

After explaining the methodology and typology, this report contains an opening section that summarises the overall findings. This is followed by 24 individual country sections where we highlight the news creators most mentioned by audiences in our Digital News Report surveys, the main networks used, and a few other characteristics of each market. The final section draws some conclusions and references other emerging work in this area."

[via:
https://www.theverge.com/news/812078/the-reuters-institute-developed-a-typology-of-news-influencers ]]]></description>
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    <title>We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-31T22:14:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The history of literacy is the history of class"]]></description>
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    <title>U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-29T04:04:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that official findings about the 2022 killing of a Palestinian American reporter were soft-pedaled to appease Israel."

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"After Shireen Abu Akleh, a celebrated Palestinian American journalist, was fatally shot in the West Bank in 2022, the State Department delivered an equivocal assessment.

While shots fired from Israeli military positions were “likely responsible,” it said, American officials “found no reason to believe that this was intentional.” The shooting, it said, was “the result of tragic circumstances.”

That statement outraged Palestinians and many others, who saw it as the latest instance of the Israeli military dodging accountability for Palestinian deaths. The United States never again publicly weighed in on Ms. Abu Akleh’s killing.

But the U.S. officials who closely examined the shooting were deeply divided over the Biden administration’s public conclusions, with some officials convinced that the shooting was intentional, according to five current and former U.S. officials who worked on the case.

There has been no conclusive evidence that the shooter knew he was targeting a journalist. Still, based on the circumstances of the shooting and the available evidence, these officials believed that the Israeli soldier must have been aware he was doing so. Other officials assigned to review the case, however, supported the U.S. government’s far more cautious assessment, the officials said.

One of those who opposed the Biden administration’s conclusion was Col. Steve Gabavics, a career military policeman with 30 years’ experience, including as the commandant of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. At the time of the shooting, he was an official at the Office of the United States Security Coordinator. That office, which facilitates cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian security services, conducted the U.S. review of the shooting.

After Colonel Gabavics retired from the military in January, he went public — first in a documentary, and now in an interview with The New York Times — with his concerns that the U.S. government had soft-pedaled the office’s findings to appease the Israeli government.

He aired his views in a documentary released in May by Zeteo News, a left-leaning online news outlet, that publicly identified for the first time the Israeli soldier who shot Ms. Abu Akleh. But Colonel Gabavics was not named in the documentary; he is now speaking out openly for the first time.

Though the question of whether the shooting was intentional ignited disagreement within the office as a whole, the two officials who clashed most sharply over the shooting were Colonel Gabavics and his then-boss, Lt. Gen. Michael R. Fenzel, according to Colonel Gabavics and several other former officials involved in the examination.

That conflict culminated in Colonel Gabavics being sidelined from the U.S. review, the officials said. Colonel Gabavics said General Fenzel also threatened to dismiss him.

The four officials who spoke to The New York Times about the case — besides Colonel Gabavics — did so on the condition of anonymity because they remain employed by the government or military and are not permitted to speak publicly.

Colonel Gabavics was chief of staff to General Fenzel, who led the U.S. Security Coordinator liaison office at the time and helped draft the July 4, 2022, State Department statement attributing the shooting to “tragic circumstances.”

Colonel Gabavics said in an interview that he and his colleagues “were just flabbergasted that this is what they put out.”

That the U.S. government avoided calling it intentional, he said, “continued to be on my conscience nonstop.”

“The favoritism is always toward the Israelis. Very little of that goes to the Palestinians,” he said of his experience working in the office.

But General Fenzel was adamant that there was not enough evidence to rule out the possibility that the fog of war had led to an accidental killing, according to two of the officials.

“Ultimately, I had to make judgments based on the full set of facts and information available to me,” General Fenzel said in a statement to The New York Times. “I stand by the integrity of our work and remain confident that we reached the right conclusions.”

The four officials said they believed Colonel Gabavics was acting out of concern for what he saw as the truth.

For General Fenzel’s part, some officials said one factor that may have played into his thinking was a desire to preserve his office’s working relationship with the Israeli military, which had previously stopped cooperating when displeased.

Two of the officials, including one who served at the liaison office at the time of the shooting and a second who was working on Palestinian issues, said General Fenzel had sought to maintain the relationship while also pushing the Israeli military for reforms.

Examining the Shooting

The office where both General Fenzel and Colonel Gabavics worked, now known as the Office of the Security Coordinator, found itself examining the shooting after Israeli and Palestinian officials, who carried out their own independent investigations, refused to cooperate on a joint inquiry.

The F.B.I. initially declined to investigate because, according to Colonel Gabavics, it said it had not been requested to do so by Israel. With the Biden administration under pressure from lawmakers, the F.B.I. eventually opened its own investigation in November 2022. Nearly three years later, however, it has not released any findings, nor said when it might do so.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the Biden administration assigned General Fenzel’s team — which is not an investigative agency — to assess the case and write a report on the evidence.

To analyze the trajectory of the bullets, Colonel Gabavics and other colleagues were sent to examine the scene on the day Ms. Abu Akleh was killed, the colonel and other officials who worked on the review said.

A key part that the U.S. office played in the investigations was to take custody of the bullet that killed Ms. Abu Akleh and hand it to Israeli government ballistics experts for testing in the presence of the American officials, including General Fenzel. The Israeli experts also examined an Israeli Army rifle that the Israelis said a soldier had used to fire in Ms. Abu Akleh’s direction.

The 2022 State Department statement said that extensive damage to the bullet made it hard to draw a definitive conclusion about which gun it was fired from.

The U.S. team also reviewed the separate Israeli and Palestinian investigations into the killing, but it did not conduct interviews with witnesses or perform its own tests.

Colonel Gabavics described himself as the lead U.S. investigator on the case. Three others who worked on it, however, said that while he played a key role, he was not assigned to come up with a final judgment. That responsibility fell to General Fenzel.

Colonel Gabavics said he and others on the team agreed that the Israeli soldier who shot Ms. Abu Akleh must have known that he was shooting at a journalist, though they did not believe that the shooter was targeting Ms. Abu Akleh specifically.

Colonel Gabavics said he concluded the shooting was deliberate based on several factors:

• Records of Israeli military radio traffic on the morning before the shooting showed that soldiers were aware of journalists in the area, he said. And there had been no gunfire coming from the journalists’ direction that might make the Israeli soldiers likely to shoot toward them in self-defense, he said.

• There was an Israeli military vehicle down the road from Ms. Abu Akleh that morning. A sniper watching the road from inside the vehicle would have been able to see the journalists clearly, Colonel Gabavics said.

• When he visited the scene of the shooting hours after it occurred, he said, his colleagues, wearing blue vests similar to Ms. Abu Akleh’s navy-blue protective vest marked “Press,” positioned themselves where she had fallen. They were visible to him from where the shooter’s vehicle had been, he said.

Colonel Gabavics said that the precision of the shots, hitting Ms. Abu Akleh’s head and a carob tree near her, did not suggest an uncontrolled spray of gunfire. That, together with the fact that the shooter fired first at Ms. Abu Akleh’s producer, then at her, then at a passerby who tried to help, indicated to him the shooting was deliberate, he said.

An investigation into the shooting by The New York Times in 2022 found that 16 shots were fired from the approximate location of the Israeli military convoy, most likely by a soldier from an elite unit.

For the shooting to be accidental, “the most absurd thing in the world” would have had to happen, he said. “The individual popped out of the truck, just was randomly shooting, and happened to have really well-aimed shots and never looked down the scope. Which wouldn’t have happened,” he said.

His assessment matched that of Palestinian officials. Israel, for its part, said that Ms. Abu Akleh was hit by either an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian gunman firing indiscriminately during clashes with Israeli soldiers, and insisted its soldiers would not intentionally hurt a journalist. Evidence reviewed by The Times for its investigation, however, showed that there were no armed Palestinians near Ms. Abu Akleh when she and her colleagues came under fire.

Colonel Gabavics said he shared his findings orally with General Fenzel and also wrote them into a draft of the office’s report on the shooting.

But General Fenzel disagreed, and shared his assessment with the State Department, which publicly deemed the shooting unintentional.

The office still had to finish its report on the shooting, however, and that became the focus of the internal tug of war.

Colonel Gabavics and three of the former officials at the office said he repeatedly inserted stronger language into the draft, which General Fenzel repeatedly deleted. Eventually, the general ordered his chief of staff off the case, the colonel said.

General Fenzel declined to comment on Colonel Gabavics’s assertions.

Colonel Gabavics continues to believe there had been a miscarriage of justice.

“This was the one that probably bothered me the most” of any case in his career, he said. “Because we had everything there.”"]]></description>
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[direct link to video:

"Hedges SLAMS hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club mess + western media betraying Gaza"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54ht6ETsGc


"Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf to unpack his time in Australia so far, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media.
We also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about: how western journalists are betraying their colleagues in Gaza. 
Plus, Chris offers some honest advice for young people who still want to tell stories and speak truth to power.

0:00 Welcome Chris Hedges 
2:00 NYT & Iraq War
6:20 leaving legacy media 
8:20 Speaking in Australia 
9:30 ABC's David Marr interview 
11:00 Press Club Mess
13:40 Lattouf reacts to ABC Late Night Live exchange
17:10 Coverage not improving on Gaza 
20:30 Progressive except for Palestine 
22:00 What Hedges wanted to say at the National Press Club before getting cancelled 
23:30 Hedges on Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson
26:34 Time at Russia Today America 
33:19 Advice to young journalists  
34:44 Lessons from Palestinian journalists"]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["WHAT WE STAND FOR

In the winter of 2023, watching the images coming out of Gaza, many of us felt we were quietly going mad. Nothing, it seemed, could be done to stop the atrocity whose death toll mounted every day. Western leaders embraced the perpetrators of this unfolding genocide, while forcefully repressing their own citizens’ peaceful protests against starvation and ethnic cleansing.

It was during this moment of moral despair that a small group of writers and editors came together. We did so, initially, to preserve our own sanity by seeking a temporary refuge from the regime of censorship and equivocation at so many prestigious periodicals. We began to imagine a new cultural venture, one that rejects the nihilistic idea that the powerful do what they please, and success is the only measure of moral virtue.

The genocide in Gaza has destroyed what remains of the illusion that the West should determine the future for the rest of the world. The United States and its satellites, having taken the centre stage of history to great fanfare after the fall of the Soviet Union, are now exiting in disgrace. A profound disorientation is the fate of the intellectual class that was created and sustained by the ‘American Century’. A legacy media whose authority to narrate the world depends on Western assumptions of omniscience is now lost in a ruin of shattered concepts.

After years spent working as editors and writers in these institutions, we have witnessed their accelerating moral and intellectual decline firsthand. They have met an increasingly globalised and interconnected world with boilerplate journalism, facile binaries, and an invincible ignorance of other societies and cultures. Equator is founded on our conviction that these storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new.

Equator is our collective response to a crisis that is as much spiritual and intellectual as it is political and economic. It is a venture that aims to create a more cosmopolitan home for thought and art than the one assigned to them by provincial Western periodicals. It also seeks to restore dignity to the concept of truth and create a public space where the values of justice, solidarity and compassion can flourish.

The mission of Equator is to hold up a mirror to a global audience of readers and writers who don’t yet recognise themselves as belonging together. All of us have had intimations of our overlapping identities and affinities, our participation in a shared global history even while separated by narrow nationalisms and parochial press cultures. For us, the widely proclaimed “end of the West” is not the end of the world; the epoch ahead is ripe with the promise of fresh illuminations, of new horizons of human action and imagination.

Equator is a movement as much as a magazine. We will publish unique longform stories about politics, culture, literature and art – but our work will also encompass public events, reading groups, screenings and exhibitions.

As the dream of homogenising the world through Western prescriptions fades, its rich variety will finally be revealed. No longer defined by a ‘developed’ centre and ‘underdeveloped’ peripheries, this new world has multiple, shifting ways of being and belonging – and a different set of fears, regrets, and aspirations too.

Equator seizes this liberating perception. It won’t derive its understanding from anything so simple as ethnic or civilisational identities ascribed to East or West, North or South. Rather, it will move beyond the easy certainties of Western exceptionalists while also spurning claims made on behalf of a supposedly unitary ‘Global South’. Equator will engage a new generation of writers and artists as we seek to express the monumental shifts taking place in not only the economic and political order of the world, but also, crucially, in the inner lives of individuals.

We believe that the future is to be actively conceived and vigorously fought for rather than passively awaited. Committed to a universalism in which all human beings of conscience come together, no longer enslaved to wealth and power, Equator strives to incarnate a heroic sense of possibility and reaffirm the moral obligation to hope.

We invite you to join us."]]></description>
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