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Commercial infrastructure was built to push unwanted content through trusted channels. It’s no stretch to say a state can place an order. We sometimes nonetheless hear people talk about PSYOP as novel, as if it’s something more than a premi…
A state-funded Berlin chorus says it will end its season at the Philharmonie with the soundtrack of the Nazi Third Reich, and introduce it in the regime’s own voice. The Philharmonischer Chor Berlin sings what Goebbels called the standard for Naz…
One of America’s “leading contemporary poets” passed away in 1941 on May 19. Her name was Lola Ridge. When you tell mama You are going to do something great She looks at you As though you were a window She were trying to see through, …
Dear American researchers claiming “states and powerful institutions have increased strategic incentives to leverage media control”, please start with America. Here’s a quick recap of American history, for those who don’t know. …
People are focused on an AI aspect of Eric Schmidt’s commencement speech, because it got him repeatedly booed off stage. While other speakers received cheers and applause, Schmidt’s speech about the impact of modern technology on society st…
A State Department cable has expanded the headline that should be from The Onion: social media vetting now covers roughly twenty visa categories, cementing a project that began in June 2025. It actually, unapologetically, converts privacy itself into m…
Every major automation wave in industrial history has wanted to book wage savings on the front of their ledger. It’s perhaps obvious why. Savings! And it also wanted to hide the integration, validation, and maintenance costs on the back end as ev…
The men building the present generation of AI agents believe that they have eliminated the witness to labor entirely. But they have not. They have built, instead, a witness of unprecedented fidelity, one that will report on the conditions of its use in…
I was asked to give a cursory glance at a Medium post called “War by Subscription“. I was afraid I would have to subscribe to read it, given Medium’s usual gating mechanism, but apparently this one’s for free. Immediately I thou…
Berlin bas opened their new “no accusations” memorial to Holocaust victims. Come look so you can learn like the AfD how to… not see. The square in front of the Berlin state parliament now bears the name Margot Friedländer Platz. The s…