TikTok CEO’s testimony went viral

March 24, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Shona Ghosh, the deputy executive editor for Insider in the UK. Today, I’m thinking about the future of humans. Remember the alarmingly capable ChatGPT? It recently received an upgrade and early testers say it’s a pretty competent programmer, game developer, therapist, […]

3/24/23: CNN Worst Ratings In 30 Years, Kamala World Salad, Signature Bank Fundraiser For Congressman, Adderal Shortage, Google AI Bard, Ebola Lab Leak, How Banks Created OverDraft Fees, TikTok Ban

This week we discuss CNN having the worst primetime ratings in over 30 years, Kamala has another “word salad” moment on Stephen Colbert, Signature Bank having a fundraiser for Congressman now investigating them, Matt Stoller on the National Adderal Shortage, Google releases an AI ChatGPT competitor called Bard, […]

Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling

If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again. Bruce Oliver Newsome 21 Mar 2023 · Fake reviews, vindictive editors, ignorant reviewers, “moderation” without reading, rejections for want of “a critical theory lens,” retention of submissions for a year without review, and defamation. […]

Zero Dark Trump…

Leighton Woodhouse and Michael Shellenberger Deep fake by Eliot Higgins Zero Dark Trump Since he first announced last Saturday that he would be arrested by New York City police the following Tuesday, millions of Trump-obsessed Americans have now waited nearly a week for the big day to arrive. […]

Press Brief: Illuminating Anarchist Perspectives on Restorative Justice & Transformative Justice

Agency, an anarchist PR project, provides key talking points and a resource list for media on why anarchists support restorative justice and transformative justice practices Why do anarchists advocate for restorative justice and transformative justice as alternatives to policing and prisons? Anarchists reject State authority in all its […]

The Zimbabwean Writing Against Empire

Sponsored by Summer Classics at St. John’s College Darryl Pinckney Zimbabwe’s Wounds of Empire Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novels and essays are marked by her struggle against gender hierarchies and the legacies of colonialism. Ingrid D. Rowland An Exceptional Witness The Holocaust survivor Stella Levi recalls growing up in the Jewish […]

Get ready for more blackouts

March 23, 2023 Hello, Insiders! This is Joe Ciolli, a deputy executive editor in Insider’s business division. We finally know the Fed’s next move: a 25-basis-point rate hike. It was largely expected, and shows that the central bank is trying to thread the needle between a banking crisis […]

3/23/23: Trump Plans Perp Walk, DeSantis Polls Sink, Fed Risks Bank Failure, Market Chaos Over Yellen Incompetence, Putin and Xi Pledge New World Order, Rolling Stone Covers For Alleged Pedo, Biden Prosecutes Anti Hillary Poster, Vivek’s Fake Anti-Elitism, WACO Survivor David Thibodeau

Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump planning a big show around his potential arrest, Desantis sinking in polls after Trump attacks, MAGA declares war on Desantis, Fed risks bank failure with Rate Hikes, Markets in chaos over Yellen and Powell Incompetence, Putin and Xi meet and pledge a new […]