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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · 19d

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…the structural forces built into the internet have done the exact opposite of empowering us. The internet has pacified us. It has robbed us of our agency… taken away our ability to act in the world.

In the valley of the vampires

Epizode Zero.

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 28d

📺 Charlie Kirk y el espectáculo hecho carne

"Asesinar a un presidente, por horrible que fuese, era algo visto como dentro de las “reglas del juego”. ¿Pero 'influencers'? ¿Comentaristas políticos? Eran, supuestamente, una clase protegida"

El análisis de @yashalevine.bsky.social

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Charlie Kirk y el espectáculo hecho carne

Este asesinato ha hecho algo que no habíamos visto antes. Ha espantado a los `influencers` políticos. Están aterrorizados.

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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · 28d

📺 "Han estado agitando los océanos psíquicos, produciendo tormentas y tempestades, y luego surfeando esas mismas olas para conseguir fama, dinero y poder político."

He traducido para @elsaltodiario.com este texto de @yashalevine.bsky.social sobre Charlie Kirk.

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Charlie Kirk y el espectáculo hecho carne

Este asesinato ha hecho algo que no habíamos visto antes. Ha espantado a los `influencers` políticos. Están aterrorizados.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Politicians assassinations are one thing. Killing presidents, however horrible, was seen as within the rules of ‘the game’. But influencers? Political commentators? They were supposed to be a protected class.”

THE SPECTACLE MADE FLESH - @yashalevine.bsky.social
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THE SPECTACLE MADE FLESH

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Spectacle and our psychotic influencer society lately...and then Charlie Kirk got assassinated.

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yes. Because people back then understood computers bc they were very new and exclusively connected with the military. Do you have the whole comic?

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Resnicks are selling a 47-acre property in downtown Aspen for $300 million, the most expensive “home” in the US. Perfect promo for @yashalevine.bsky.social’s ‘Pistachio Wars’ release. www.sfgate.com/realestate/a...

Calif. farming couple list most expensive home in the US

If sold for even close to the list price, it would set a national record.

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 20

THE MARKET OF IDEAS IS ALWAYS RIGHT

Interviewing famous people is not enough to drive the clicks anymore. Even panel discussions with famous people screaming is not enough. Now you need to put famous people in a circular brawl — you need media gang bangs!

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Influencerism is the highest form of capitalist realism

A political manifesto from mid political influencer Yasha Levine.

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 18

COMPUTERS AS A COUNTER INSURGENCY WEAPON!

Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Jack Kirby story from 1959 ("I Fought the Colossus," Strange Tales # 72) predicts AI would be developed by 2020 and that one major fear would be that it would start giving the wrong answers to questions and "wreck civilization." Gotta love the 1950s giant mainframes.

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Soon. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Watermelon Pictures to Release Environmental Doc ‘Pistachio Wars’ Worldwide

The investigative feature, from journalist Yasha Levine and filmmaker Rowan Wernham, executive produced by Adam McKay, examines the role of billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick in California’s water...

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 8

Evgenia looks at the transformation of Russia's biggest cultural export: Nadya of Pussy Riot. She went from being a nefarious Russian to a Russian cam girl for Biden.

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From a nefarious russian to a cam girl

Commodification of dissent: How Nadya of Pussy Riot joined the Clergy of the Mall

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 7

We got a great ep with Greg Grandin about the end of American Myth — from Clinton to Trump to how America is going through its own end of the USSR moment…it no longer believes in itself.

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Jamie Dyer ☸️ @jamiedcville.bsky.social · Jul 5

You should read more @yashalevine.bsky.social. His farts are worse than mine.

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Israel vs Germany: Who Killed More?

In this macabre genocide numbers game, Israel doesn't come out looking so good.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · Jul 6

“The easy slide of Israeli society into supporting & carrying out a genocide isn’t that surprising—or even an aberration—if you study the religious text on which this society is based.”

Zionists tried to use God. But God used them - @yashalevine.bsky.social
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Zionists tried to use God. But God used them.

…or how zionism is at the core of Judaism.

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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · Jul 15

🧛🏰 He traducido para @elsaltodiario.com este ensayo de @yashalevine.bsky.social sobre el impacto político de las redes sociales: "Desde el ciudadano común al capitalista más poderoso, todos vivimos en ellas, nos moldean y nos afectan." www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/todo...

Todos vivimos ahora en el castillo del vampiro

Puede parecer contraintuitivo, pero irritar a la gente es de hecho una manera ahora de pacificarla. Porque lo que hace es agotarnos: canalizar nuestro tiempo y nuestra energía creativa al espacio virt...

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey guys I posted about Matt Taibbi transformation from liberal panderer into a Ted Cruz LLM. Resist!

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · Jul 15

📱Opinión | "Puede parecer contraintuitivo, pero irritar a la gente es de hecho una manera ahora de pacificarla. Porque lo que hace es agotarnos: canalizar nuestro tiempo y nuestra energía creativa al espacio virtual".

✍🏻 @yashalevine.bsky.social

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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · Jul 4

🇪🇺 Como dijo @yashalevine.bsky.social, oligarquía ≠ democracia. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds

Support is lowest in France, Spain and Poland, while 21% back authoritarian rule under certain circumstances

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey guys I posted about Matt Taibbi transformation from liberal panderer into a Ted Cruz LLM. Resist!

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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · Jun 28

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 "¿Todo aquello de Chomsky sobre fabricar consenso? Ni siquiera lo han intentado en esta ocasión."

He traducido esta reflexión de @yashalevine.bsky.social para @diario.red sobre el ataque de EEUU a instalaciones nucleares iraníes y su reflejo en redes.

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¿Fabricando consenso? ¿Qué consenso? ¿Y para qué fabricarlo?

Parece como si cuanto más online y más conectados estamos, menos poder tenemos sobre el mundo real. Y los capullos que dirigen este cotarro, viejos y decrépitos como son, parecen comprenderlo

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · Jun 15

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

Photo from Carlin Stiehl from the LA Times. Dozens of people holding American flags on the streets of LA are in frame, with a massive cloud of tear gas billowing in front of them. One protester holds a sign that reads Immigrants Make Us Great.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · Jun 9

“Information isn’t power. It never was. Unless you have power, information is just information. & in our consumerist-entertainment society, information is just that: entertainment.

Genocide drives engagement!” - @yashalevine.bsky.social
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Gaza and the Death of “Information Is Power”

Journalism is dead.

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Jamie Dyer ☸️ @jamiedcville.bsky.social · Jun 13

@yashalevine.bsky.social is one of the best writers on the platform that he rightfully derides. Good takedown of Bari Weiss.

"She might have a lot of charisma and hobnobbing talent and ambition, but she’s not that smart."

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Bari Weiss: Toady Queen of Substack

How one cynical operative married a California princess, sucked up to power, and found fame and fortune and love.

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · Jun 2

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The AIPAC Narrative Reexamined: Empire, the Lobby, the Left, and the Limits of Blame

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · Jun 2

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It's bigger than AIPAC

I talk about the Israel Lobby

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