Ashoka Mukpo

great time to be in Michoacán right now

his parties sound like they were lit too

The ‘incredibly significant’ US military forces surrounding Iran US naval and aircraft build-up is reminiscent of the invasion of Iraq, experts say

So we're just going to casually do another regime change war in the middle east, this time in a country with twice the population of Iraq, with no public debate whatsoever?

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"In 2025 you will be able to bet on how many people have measles in America" feels like a line from some deranged Adult Swim show in the early 00s

I stared at that phrase for a very long time today before checking the Polymarket odds on how many measles cases there will be in the US by the end of February

Knowing who to be mad at really is praxis.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards

We won the George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting for our investigation on how powerful people and firms exploited East African women recruited for domestic work in the Gulf. Special thanks to the Polk jury and to everyone involved in this project from the start.

obviously both tech advancement and political conflict shape reality but the question is which of the two you think is in the drivers seat of history. AI isn't neutral and you can't really talk about its impact without focusing first on who controls it and what their intentions are.

On the other hand, if the AI revolution is real and it plays out the way the billionaires are all promising - ie everyone loses their jobs - the left's argument that the future rests on political struggle rather than tech innovation is going to have a lot of new converts.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

New from me.

In the words of the great Too Short. RIP

Scrutiny grows over DRC-US minerals deal, even as other African nations sign up On Feb 4, the U.S. hosted the Critical Minerals Ministerial, a summit bringing together delegations from more than 50 countries, including seven African countries, with the aim of securing access to…

A U.S.-hosted minerals summit signals a push to cut reliance on China by striking deals with African nations.

Guinea and Morocco signed agreements, while a prior deal with the DRC, home to 70% of global cobalt reserves, faces scrutiny over human rights and instability concerns.

Opinion | Why Did I Trust Jeff Bezos?

Lydia Polgreen hits on a dynamic I’ve noticed: That as news organizations grew more skeptical and more questioning of government over the last decades of the 20th century, audiences liked them less.

I think a lot of people's expectations for the media boil down to : "the place where i might some day get to see my name if i do really good"

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

100%. Ironic that hes delivering the message to Europe that the world has moved on, i wonder if hes self aware enough to understand that hes a casualty of that

Europe is vain enough that it probably will let this slick talk lull it back to sleep, this kind of rhetorical delusion is how it got here to start with.

these guys are looking at internal polling that must be atrocious and realizing that they moved too fast without consolidating power first. the agenda has not changed one inch.

Someone tell European policy makers that climate change will not just be a poor country problem, and that the biggest risk with climate is not that people will migrate but that people will die.

I’m torn. I agree with this but I also know, with a lot of frustration, the limits of reporting. I’ve written about and published stories about Alabama’s prison crisis for 20 years, and it feels next to impossible to get people to care about the horrific violence happening in their names.

Also totally downstream of the most damaging psychological event for young men of the 2020s so far - the 2020/2021 crypto bull market

Category with lots of competition but i think prediction markets are the most dystopian new element of modern life. Real fall of civilization stuff

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

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For anyone wondering what Greg Bovino has been up to lately…

I have a daughter Eliezer and I promise you if these are the two options you have in mind for her im going to be finding a third door for you and your entire industry along with tens of millions of other people.