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YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, 'Judgement Day'

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza.

Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection.

Please watch and share widely.

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State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

YouTube video by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement Alberto Toscano: Late Fascism

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Alberto Toscano discusses his major new book Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. This free event delved into Toscano’s latest book, highlighting the continued and necessary development of ongoing anti-fascist thought and organization.

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice Panel 2: Fascism as Capitalist Counter Revolution

A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025).

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YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc with Naomi Klein

Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945.
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“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future” An alliance between the far right and Silicon Valley oligarchs has given rise to a form of “end times fascism,” says journalist Naomi Klein, who details in a recent essay co-authored with Astra Taylor...

"End Times Fascism": Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right "Don't Believe in the Future"

"Social justice issues are a nonissue for accelerationists. If people get trampled during the march of progress toward these bigger, more energy intensive futures, so be it The stakes are so high and the payoff is so great that we can't put any brakes on progress.”

Effective accelerationism is the latest ideology to grip Silicon Valley. It divides tech between the accelerationists and the doomers.

This week @parismarx.bsky.social speaks to @xriskology.bsky.social about the threats it poses to us.

Listen to the full episode: techwontsave.us/episode/198_...

Curtis Yarvin describes himself as a “dark elf” saving the know-nothing “hobbits” of the US public with an anti-democratic, pro-tech politics.

@juliablack.bsky.social joins @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss how tech billionaires are echoing his ideas.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/244_...

Palantir is thriving under Donald Trump, but what does the company really do?

This week @carolinehaskins.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the tech Palantir sells to governments and companies and the ideology that guides its leaders.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/294_...

Palantir is leading the charge to remake military contracting so newer tech companies get far more lucrative arms contracts.

This week @sambiddle.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss the tech industry’s effort to become the new military industrial complex.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/279_...

AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding?

This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...

YouTube video by eisfrosch AI Singularity Is A Smokescreen

My new video explains my various grievances about the ambient AI discourse. We often run in loops discussing the same things ("will we lose jobs", "when will AGI happen"), I try to avoid speculations to focus to current and real problems.
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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"

The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

What is the Academic Consensus on the Gaza Genocide? YouTube video by Alonso Gurmendi

Check out @alonso-gd.bsky.social's summary of "The Academic Consensus on Gaza": www.youtube.com/watch?si=jOU... #genocide #genocidestudies

Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza? A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

NEW: My longform report on the field of genocide studies is now unpaywalled. What happens when institutions that grew out of the study of the Holocaust—where Israel is often understood as the survivors' state—must grapple with Israel committing genocide? jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

Pankaj Mishra · Memory Failure: Germany’s commitment to Israel As völkisch-authoritarian racism surges at home, the German authorities risk failing in their responsibility to the...

‘State-funded cultural institutions have long penalised intellectuals of Global South ancestry who show sympathy for Palestinians; the authorities are now disciplining even Jewish writers, artists and activists.’

Pankaj Mishra on Germany’s culture war:
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Kan universitetene stå imot Trumps nye offensiv? I en uke hvor amerikansk venstreside terrorstemples må vi spørre: hvor langt på den autoritære veien har USA nå kommet? Lenker 👇

Podcast: Emily Witt and Malin Hay · Selling the Manosphere

‘What we saw in the last US election was the rise of this very individualistic politics and this idea that a real man doesn't need a social safety net, that he is the agent of his own destiny.’

Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere, on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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a promotional shot showing a woman in revealing white is walking on a slanted treadmill, while looking back at the camera, smile on face, plastic dog in front. hand rails are on either side. a virtual poodle is on the screen with a virtual lead attached.

inu no osanpo, arcade (2001) '..a dog walking simulation. players "walk" a virtual dog by walking on a treadmill & control the pet with a leash attached to a plastic dog in front of the player. the game was only released in japan.' archive.org/details/arca... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inu_no_...

NEW Decoding: Phosphor!
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Deconstructing my Phosphor shaders, the math and logic behind them

Tides of History: S4 E51: "The Verge" Audiobook Sneak Peak: Mercenaries and the Military Revolution Listen to an exclusive sneak peak of Patrick's book, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World, which comes out today, July 20th! This chapter looks at the one-armed Ge...

'All across Europe, knights and nobles transformed themselves from feudal warriors to military entrepreneurs.'

A sneek peek of Chapter 4: Götz von Berlichingen and the Military Revolution from the audiobook "The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" by Patrick Wyman

Grok’s Antisemitic Meltdown Was Entirely Predictable Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, started spewing antisemitic conspiracy theories this week. It’s not the first time something like this has happened — and a reminder that LLMs aren’t truth-telling machines but aggregators of undifferentiated online scribblings.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, started spewing antisemitic conspiracy theories this week. It’s not the first time something like this has happened — and a reminder that LLMs aren’t truth-telling machines but aggregators of undifferentiated online scribblings.

Fara Dabhoiwala · Seagull Soup: HMS Wager The captain of HMS Wager had shot dead an unarmed sailor. Other men had been found murdered. The captain had been...

'They returned home in rival groups, by different routes, telling conflicting stories of exactly what had happened in the months following the shipwreck – accusing one another of mutiny, murder and betrayal.'

Seagull Soup by Fara Dabhoiwala

Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...

‘The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European insurrection since; it can’t be understood without considering the rebels’ inner lives as well as their material circumstances.’

Malcolm Gaskill: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley | Novara Media California's tech billionaires were once famously liberal. No more. What does their shift to the far right mean for the 2024 US election?

'People walk around San Francisco in Make America Great Again hats. Major CEOs endorse Trump. JD Vance is a hit among the crypto whales. So what? It's part, perhaps, of a cultural change in Silicon Valley: a swing decisively to the right [...]'

Podcast: Laleh Khalili and Thomas Jones · Silicon Valley Warriors

In the latest episode of the podcast, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones to discuss the relationship between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon.

Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...