Martin Gurri
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The FBI is calling
@bariweiss
,
@mtaibbi
, and
@ShellenbergerMD
"conspiracy theorists" who are purveying "disinformation." I'd like to see an open debate between these parties.
What an extraordinary moment for our govt institutions...
🚨BREAKING: The FBI responds to
@elonmusk
releasing the Twitter files:
"It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."
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When “disinformation” means “shut up”…
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Bari Weiss at her best - must read, to the last word…
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I don't live in CA, and I'm happy about that. Don't pretend to tell Californians how to vote - but I have met
@ShellenbergerMD
and I wish we had people that smart and humane running for office in my own state of VA...
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Not saying this is an easy read, but it's Balaji at his best - and that's saying something...
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Pretty remarkable how the Europeans have given up on innovation and think they can control the future through regulation.
Good luck with that…
Historic!
The EU becomes the very first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI 🇪🇺
The
#AIAct
is much more than a rulebook — it's a launchpad for EU startups and researchers to lead the global AI race.
The best is yet to come! 👍
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Face masks today, face masks tomorrow, face masks forever...
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"Fact checking" and "disinformation" are all about control, not truth...
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Been interviewed by a lot of smart people, and
@bariweiss
is at the top of that list. Not really a podcast - more like an audio documentary = audiomentary?
Brilliant...
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Happy to announce that a documentary based on The Revolt of the Public is in the works. I’ve teamed up with director
@JohnPapola
and his terrific crew at Emergent Order Foundation – we've already begun filming interviews.
I am, as you might imagine, truly buzzed about this...
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I think this lockdown is over...
"Airbnb saw more nights booked for U.S. listings between May 17 and June 3 than the same period in 2019."
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The more we crave authenticity, the more we get lost in the herd...
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What a world...
Popular Japanese biker
@azusagakuyuki
turns out to be a 50-year-old man using FaceApp. "No one will read what a normal middle-aged man posts on his account"
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Advice to the troubled & confused: avoid the news. Read books. Take walks. Listen to music. You'll be healthier, saner - & smarter too...
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Dissident suspended in the name of diversity…
Senior
@NPR
editor
@uberliner
has been suspended from the public radio network he's served for 25 years after sharing concerns about bias in The Free Press:
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So we said "Don't" to the Iranians and they did. So we said we stand with Israel but we also said we condemn Israel. So we called the ruling prince in Saudi Arabia a "pariah" the we begged him for more oil production.
Is there a plan anywhere in here?
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"Dumber" because even in the Cold War, when we knew the Soviets were trying to manipulate the info sphere to influence USG decisions, it never occurred to anyone to get our govt involved in content control.
That was what we were fighting against...
Prove "influence". Where's the data? What pure American minds are polluted? And if there's no data, how isn't this an even dumber version of "a Commie under every bed"?
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There are institutions being built, right alongside the ones that are collapsing: watch this spot...
Bari Weiss is now making $800,000 a year on substack 👀👀
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I have read many wise thinker saying that the pandemic will reinforce trust in institutions - but this is what I see has happened, in most countries, again and again...
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Prove "influence". Where's the data? What pure American minds are polluted? And if there's no data, how isn't this an even dumber version of "a Commie under every bed"?
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My challenge to
@DKThomp
- also my inaugural essay in The Free Press.
Abundance isn't a cure but a byproduct of a healthy society...
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From an East Coast wonk's perspective
@ShellenbergerMD
is all California and all sanity - kind of hurts your head...
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I'm sure nobody will suspect the mutual protection of elites in this decision...
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A very generous assessment of Revolt of the Public (and an interesting interview with me) from
@mtaibbi
...
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Hypothesis: Seething political anger today does not have commensurate political causes. Instead, feelings once associated with private life have spilled onto the political...
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I don't go in for predictions or melodrama - but this could be a fatal development for the administration on the one issue it was going to be judged on...
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The West, as Stephen Klotkin recently said, is a set of institutions and values: Japan belongs to it, Russia never has...
"The West" is a very silly term when used as a euphemism for "white people", but actually makes sense when used to mean "the countries that are allied together against Russia"
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I'm happy to announce a new printing by Stripe Press of The Revolt of the Public - all cleaned up (I'm looking at you,
@Yascha_Mounk
) and with a new index.
My thanks to all of you in Twitterland and beyond who have read the book and keep me busy fussing about its ideas...
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Google has morphed into a metaphor of affluent hyper-educated America: easy life, no competition, virtue shadow-boxing to escape boredom.
Great piece by Solana…
After the Gemini fiasco, new reporting from our sources inside Google describes a broken, hollowed-out culture at Google where HR reigns supreme, and no one wants to speak up for fear of being noticed 👇
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This photo, from the 1-yr anniversary protests of the Yellow Vests in France, wins the coveted "best visual representation of nihilism" award...
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Yuval Levin has written that our institutions have become performative: mere stages to play-act on. The same is true of our revolutions...
For me, the striking thing about so many of these images of rioters in the Capitol is that what they're doing - all of them - is creating content for social media.
At least in their minds, the true seat of power is not actually in that building. It's online.
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This the most thoughtful essay on the Ukraine war that I have read…
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@bariweiss
is my hometown newspaper, but I disagree with her on this: loss of trust in media is a positive development. We are now less likely to think that we know when we don’t…
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One last vent: does anyone think that the Biden administration's endless performative condemnations of Israel - a fellow democracy, an ally, and a friend in need - played no part in Iranian calculations?
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From the moment we declared our disastrous flight from Afghanistan an "extraordinary success," everything that followed - the wars, mass murders, missile attacks - was predictable...
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According to this, more Americans are afraid to speak their minds today than during the McCarthy scare...
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"The intent of post-journalism was never to represent reality or inform the public but to arouse enough political fervor in readers that they wished to enter the paywall in support of the cause"
My latest...
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Well written, but I find this request astonishing. What we need is to find out who was right, who was wrong, for what reason and with what motive - otherwise, how will we do better the next time?
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Podcast with one of my favorite thinkers…
Why is everything so broken? And what broke it? I don't think anyone answers those questions better than
@mgurri
. Was thrilled to talk to him for
@thehonestlypod
:
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Record vote. Tranquility in polling areas. The winner tonight? Democracy in America...
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BTW, this is what an actual insurgency looks like. All about power. No selfies…
Taliban fighters have entered Afghanistan’s presidential palace hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country — in pictures
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Hamas is fully funded and trained by Iran. The Biden admin just handed $6 billion to the Iranians. Don't think it's too harsh to say they have blood on their hands...
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How post-pandemic America is trending to become (yes) Miami...
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It's remarkable to me how conservatives and progressives, neither of which can think ahead from lunch to dinner, see a sinister "long game" being played by the other side...
The target achieved today is not the only target. It's also everyone who would want to seek such leadership roles in the future. The signal being sent is a very real and negative one. That is way more damaging than we can see right now. Remember who is playing the long game...
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The political parenthesis of the pandemic is over. The revolt of the public has returned in full force.
Batten down the hatches...
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The federal government "has been acting the part of grand inquisitor and pushing content decisions on its 'private sector partners'"
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The Biden admin and the federal law enforcement and intel bureaucracies are deep in the business of managing media content. Not really sure when we voted for that...
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The digital world, and social media especially, must be retooled on principles and algorithms that sustain behavior consistent with an open society...
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For progressives, it’s the Apocalypse; for those of us who write on politics, it’s the Second Coming…
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A critical but fair review of The Revolt of the Public by Scott Alexander. He says reading the book is a pointless exercise in 2021 because everyone already knows everything in it.
Honestly, I wish that were true...
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I braved bullets and brownshirts and singing Nazis to vote today. Oh wait - that was “Cabaret.”
America? Still boring. Thank God for that...
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Fortunately for the Argentines, a Buenos Aires publishing house just translated La rebelion del publico - all will be explained...
I have seen Milei described as "far right" (CNN, NYT), "rightwing populist" (AP), "libertarian" (Reuters), "far-right libertarian" (Guardian), "far-right outsider (BBC) - all these labels blend into a single screechy meaning...
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“I’d love to watch the system burn” = nihilist posturing by a person who wouldn’t survive 5 minutes without the “system”…
It’s very simple.
If the RNC wants to FAFO, let them.
We will only vote for the nominee if the nominee is Donald Trump.
If they sabotage that, then GOP will lose in 2024 because over 30% of GOP voters are
#OnlyTrump
voters.
I’d love to watch the system burn.
#Trump2024
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This is the 2024 election I’d like to see…
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"The internet is the single biggest threat to our democracy" is our version of "The printing press killed millions in the 30 Years' War."
Mind-boggling...
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This is morally repulsive. The people who did this are morally repulsive. Apple managers are morally repulsive cowards. Antonio as a human being is worth a million of these twerps.
For shame....
Antonio García Martínez, a newly hired engineer on Apple’s ads team, is gone from Apple after employee backlash regarding sexist comments he made in his book Chaos Monkeys, company says. Employees have been incredibly angry about his hire and questioned Apple’s hiring practices.
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For those who missed it: my interview with the most excellent Matt Taibbi...
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"Every statue knocked down in anger offers proof, to someone, that change is possible. As for what remains behind, I imagine it’s exemplified by the empty pedestal: we are looking at nothing—a political void"
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I have seen Milei described as "far right" (CNN, NYT), "rightwing populist" (AP), "libertarian" (Reuters), "far-right libertarian" (Guardian), "far-right outsider (BBC) - all these labels blend into a single screechy meaning...
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Suspect future historians will interpret this moment as one of America's strangest psychotic episodes...
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OMG, there’s been a coup in Washington and the Care Bears have taken the White House...
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During the 2016 presidential race, the NYT stumbled into a new business model, entailing a pivot from a journalism of fact to a "post-journalism" of advocacy. How well did it work?
My latest.
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Those who accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" - sometimes before a shot had been fired - need to go deep into themselves and figure out what went wrong there...
The
@BBC
spells out the concrete evidence for Hamas abusing the Shifa Hospital for military purposes, building tunnels underneath it and abducting hostages into it on October 7.
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How I know I'm an old guy: can't understand people who have nothing to say spending enormous amounts of energy to silence others who say nothing much...
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Interesting, but no consideration of:
1. Decline of family (and family numbers)
2. Decline of community (especially religion)
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"The populists have failed for the same reason that the street revolts have failed: Both are driven by a politics of negation. Both rage against the rule of the elites but lack a coherent alternative to put in its place."
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Emmanuel Macron says France has a "crisis of authority." The "hierarchies" are under attack.
Should I sue for copyright infringement?
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Confession: I'm thankful for my life, my family, my work, and my country.
I love this holiday...
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Elizabeth Warren’s grasp of economics would have made her an excellent Latin American dictator of olden days…
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Camden NJ: Fascinating that the progressive response to reforming police began w breaking the union...
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When they say they want to control disinformation, they mean the web - and when they say the web, they mean, of course, you...
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Remember the revolt of the public? Sit back and enjoy the sequel...
My latest for City Journal.
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Why would anyone fake data making US society look far more racist than it is - specially an academic researcher? I mean, what is the point of truth?
(This is when I feel REALLY old...)
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For some reason, my old interview with
@antoniogm
is getting a lot of hits.
I am reposting strictly as a warning of what can happen when two Cubans get together...
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Every word in this argument against the Colorado decision is what I would have written, if I were eloquent enough. In my ideal future, some day not far off I'll vote for Peter Meijer for president...
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Except this has probably happened a thousand times before and was never an issue until they tried to nail Trump to that cross…
US President Joe Biden is under investigation by his own Justice Department to determine whether his serial mishandling of classified information -- including Top Secret documents about Iran and Ukraine -- violated multiple federal criminal laws and should be prosecuted.
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There is now an established religion in the United States, and I analyze its dogmas. With pointers to
@antoniogm
,
@tylercowen
, &
@wesyang
.
Written before the Ukraine war - interesting to contemplate in that context...
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Cuba isn't what you think: the regime is a corrupt mafia; health/education are collapsing with the economy; 4% of the population have fled in the last 2 yrs; and the rest are venting mightily on the web. My latest...
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Sometimes a regime that is way past its sell date deserves to be disrupted digitally. If the US govt can really offer wifi to ordinary Cubans, it must do so.
Great piece by
@antoniogm
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Our political class doesn’t have a clue about how the world works…
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Israel-Hamas decision tree for the ethically confused
Q4: Who is trying to prevent future horrors and who has vowed to exterminate a whole people?
A: Do I really need to help you here?
Israel-Hamas decision tree for the ethically confused
Q3: Who was attacked and who is the aggressor?
A: Go with those who crave peace...
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That’s a bit like finding the breeze refreshing until you hit the ground…
Japan and Italy have attained the objective many can only dream of. Become reasonably rich, stop growing, reduce population b/c people do not want kids or migrants, and thus rapidly shrink its total GDP and reduce CO2 emissions.
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Is the world falling apart? Yes. Is the current crowd in office largely responsible? Of course. Should we yield to anger or despair? Not really. There is always reason to hope.
My latest at The Free Press...
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There has been a "herding effect" at work in the info sphere: we express more opinions about ever fewer subjects (Trump, Covid, race). Is it the algorithms? The culture? Both?
"Jump..."
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My take on CIA, if anybody cares...
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To ask about disinformation is disinformation. To doubt disinformation means you're a tool of Vladimir Putin and a polluter of our precious bodily fluids...
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