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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 1h

Tomorrow: join Fintan O’Toole, Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor, and Patricia J. Williams for an online discussion on political violence in America. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-summer-o...

A Summer of Fear: Violence, Intimidation, and Freedom of Speech in the US

Fintan O’Toole hosts Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor and Patricia J. Williams for a wide-ranging conversation on political violence in America.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3h

“Ben Shahn sought out particulars, not generalities, and believed that the process of turning those particulars into art was what made them universal.” —Nicole Rudick

Becoming Acquainted with America | Nicole Rudick

In “The Biography of a Painting,” an essay drawn from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1956–1957, Ben Shahn remembers his early years as an

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 4h

Vicente L. Rafael on how a massacre in the Philippines faded from American history

Massacre Under the Starry Flag | Vicente L. Rafael

The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 5h

Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social on how the discount rate privileges private capital at the expense of future well-being

The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann

The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 8h

“The rapidity with which many in the contemporary far right have shed their libertarian principles…indicates that the economic philosophies of Rothbard and Hoppe were more disposable than their racial project.” —Suzanne Schneider

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream | Suzanne Schneider

The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1d

Good essay. Had not considered how sound itself can be policed by gender.

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Soundscapes of the Silenced | Erin Maglaque

In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 1d

"so voracious, so all-consuming, that they are putting the country’s productive industries at risk. "

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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 1d

echoing praise for @susglickman.bsky.social 's recent NYRB article on DoD, private equity, and silicon valley. pair with @hozic.bsky.social 's earlier piece on hollywood, the valley and DoD -> comprehensive picture.
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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 1d

“The pathos of beauty is that there may be no one there to appreciate it, which makes it a victim, like us, of death’s cruelty.” —Ange Mlinko on the poems of Peter Balakian and Angie Estes

Questions of Compression | Ange Mlinko

T.S. Eliot prophesied it: “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” In May 2005, when Peter Balakian visited the monument to the victims of the

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 1d

“Without principled commitments to anything other than user growth, Facebook and other platforms made themselves easy marks for those on the right who were adept at relentlessly working the refs.” — @jacobweisberg.bsky.social

Algorithm Nation | Jacob Weisberg

Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 3d

“The primary product of the defense VC strategy,” the scholar Elke Schwarz has written in a recent article, “is not a defense technology as such, but financial returns achieved through growth.”

Great article by @susglickman.bsky.social

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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 3d

The thirty-five fossil gas turbines that power the supercomputer that runs the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, emit 1,200 to 2,000 tons of nitrogen oxides a year.

The Costs of the Cloud: Stellar piece by @ashdawson.bsky.social
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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
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The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann

The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.

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Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social · 2d

"Gomes opens up a small utopian pause where film can undo not just representation but mortality itself and take us somewhere where everything is possible."

A beautiful essay on the cinema of Miguel Gomes. Ken Chen in @nybooks.com
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Serene and Delirious | Ken Chen

At first I did not know how to watch the fresh and giggling, gasp-of-delight-inducing, omnivorous, often deliberately pointless, even trolling and

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

“Siege mentality has gone mainstream, and in this age of luxury apocalypse bunkers, it is useful to trace its origins back to the proper cesspool.” —Suzanne Schneider on Hayek’s Bastards

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream | Suzanne Schneider

The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

Jay Neugeboren on the rise in America of “hidden homelessness”: people who work full-time and have nowhere to live

The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren

As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

“The best physicians know that suggestion and faith are powerful treatments, and that expectations of health and of healing can often become self-fulfilling—for good and for bad.” — @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social

Hope Management | Gavin Francis

Four hundred years ago Robert Burton concluded his majestic (and majestically unwieldy) treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy with a few words of distilled

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

“Making Big Tech pay for the power it consumes might encourage tech executives to align themselves against the current Republican effort to defund the renewable energy…. Adding utility-scale solar and wind power to the grid is, after all, far cheaper and faster.” — @ashdawson.bsky.social

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

“It’s as if recent history as made it unnecessary for Pynchon to spell out his usual themes, since the supposedly hidden forces that his previous work exposed have rarely been more visible than they are now.” —Andrew Katzenstein

The Big Cheese | Andrew Katzenstein

Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of…

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d

The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint) | Victoria Chang

The canvas is flipped from right to left. But the shell is smaller. All morning I thought the shell was the same shell. That it was a seashell. But maybe

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d

“It seemed to me that life after our home would be a mere illusion of living, that in truth we had died when we left our home behind.” —Doha Kahlout on forced displacement from North Gaza

Sad Nights of the North | Doha Kahlout, Katharine Halls

After seven hundred days of death announcements, of lost faith, of suffering that has choked our breath and lined our faces, the nightmare of forced

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d

Nicole Rudick on the noble propaganda of Ben Shahn’s art

Becoming Acquainted with America | Nicole Rudick

In “The Biography of a Painting,” an essay drawn from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1956–1957, Ben Shahn remembers his early years as an

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d

“The presence of Black seamen was especially important for stowaways. Sailors were known to stack the heavy bales of cotton in a way that created spaces where slaves could fit and to provide them with food and water during the voyage.” —Eric Foner

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 4d

"But never before has a US president asserted the authority to order the cold-blooded execution of civilians outside any even arguable military conflict. And never before has a US president then turned around and boasted about his own crimes to the public at large." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole

During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 4d

"Viral propaganda tools were deployed against those attempting to limit..viral propaganda tools. Cries of censorship were used to silence opponents, curtail research, & stop fact-checking. Investigating the weaponization of the govt meant weaponizing the govt"
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Algorithm Nation | Jacob Weisberg

Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.

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