8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

A Kibbutz Be’eri official said the New York Times's story of sexual violence against two girls is “not true”: “They were not sexually abused.”

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.

Medical interventions aren’t just for men, y’know

FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner

As lawmakers continue to push bills targeting the LGBTQ community, and specifically transgender people, some fear for safety and their future.

The National Center for Transgender Equality released early insights from its 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey of trans people in U.S. history.

A brief history of the region and some of the roots of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Answers to your questions about what happened, when it happened, and how many people have been killed, injured, or taken hostage as of this writing.

It's toxic and full of nightmares. We're just beginning to understand how corrosive Musk's Twitter truly is.

In recent weeks, right-wing pundits have zeroed in on airline DEI programs and the presence of migrants in airports.

Comrades, For the time being, my writing on here will be entirely free. If you have the means, and believe in paying for good writing, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Below, an essay on the manipulation of truth and Gaza. For most of us, telling the truth means making a statement which fits the facts. If I say, “I am now on the island of St Helena observing Napoleon’s residence” - this statement is true if I am in fact really there, observing Napoleon’s residence. The so-called postmodernists proceed in a different way: they reduce truth to a discursive “truth-effect.” For example, Michel Foucault’s notion of truth can be summed up by the claim that truth/untruth is not a direct property of our statements but, in different historical conditions, alternative discourses produce their own specific truth-effects, i.e., they imply their own criteria of what values as “true”:

The AI darling faces a long list of serious challenges in 2024

This year, more than 200 anti-transgender bills have already been filed in the states. They are extreme. And many will pass.

When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation measures, such as bans, they may migrate to other platforms with laxer policies or set up their own dedicated websites....

The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

What’s happening at The Hague isn’t political theater.

In 2003 the Episcopal Church consecrated Robinson as the first openly-gay bishop in all of Christendom. Death threats followed, but so did a shift in the relationship between the LGBTQ community and the church.

What the MCU show does right in its discussion about fascism

Watch an I$raeli children education class to understand why the I$raeli soldiers are committing atrocities against humanity in Gaza 💔 #endisraeliapartheid | 68 comments on LinkedIn

Social media is awash with misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, which was triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on October 7. In one example, fabricated Forbes magazine covers that denounce two Hamas leaders for allegedly becoming billionaires through crime have been widely circulated. The American business magazine told AFP the covers are fake, and an analysis shows they contain publishing errors.

What is his real motivation?

As concerns swirl about the disruption artificial intelligence could cause for the 2024 elections, OpenAI on Monday declared that politicians and their campaigns are not allowed to use the company’s AI tools.

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How is it that journalists are not pausing to question the outrageous improbability of so many of the evidence-poor rape stories being advanced?

Ethnic cleansing or “transfer” is an intrinsic part of Zionism’s early history, and has remained an essential feature of Israeli political life. More recently, “transfer” has been mainstreamed by billing it as encouraging “voluntary emigration.”

How can something be headline news and also nearly invisible? Mainstream media are accomplishing that in Gaza