exec digital editor @ARTnews / reporting in @businessinsider @VICEnews @WashingtonPost @verge, etc. / writing fiction you'll never read
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chiming in alongside everyone else to say this is so good dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
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Jewish currents live needs your help
🚨 An Important Update on JC Live 🚨
ALT This week, we learned that Brooklyn College’s Tow Center was canceling our daylong event, JC Live, at the eleventh hour. Though the administration has used the excuse of “emergency repairs” to one of its many performance spaces, we have good reason to believe that this was a political decision, intending to avoid platforming voices for Palestinian liberation. We have been planning this event for over a year, and anticipated over 1,000 in the audience. Scores of participants were scheduled to speak or perform, many of them traveling internationally to be here with us. We are left scrambling, with little time to prepare an alternative. We will not be silenced. We plan to proceed with our event. We are appealing to our ticket-holders for their understanding while we sort through our options. And we are turning to our community for help. Are you connected to a venue in NYC that is available on September 15th?
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Hi all. Nerdy policy wonk who follows Congress closely weighing in with a thread on legislation (getting no media coverage) moving rapidly through Congress that targets US non-profit orgs, with the immediate & explicit target being orgs involved in Palestine protesting.
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Harrison Jacobs retweeted
The IDF posted a few videos of their tour through the hospital. No tunnels, command centers, etc. to be found in any of these clips or pictures. Instead, focus is on "grab bags" of some guns and body armor scattered around, and a laptop next to CD-Rs.
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This isn't a Hamas tunnel, it's an old transmitter facility in Sweden.
youtube.com/watch?v=OWZ4wjyg…
(Great eyes from folks on the Project Owl server with this too, and I learned a lot about Swedish cold war bunkers!)
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“We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic.” New: an open letter.
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Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials believe that a projectile captured on videos shortly before the Ahli Arab Hospital explosion was a Palestinian rocket.
@nytimes Visual Investigations found that this object was launched from Israel, and likely unrelated to the deadly blast.
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Great Al Arabiya journalist grilling Hamas’s Khalid Mashaal from an Arab perspective – at Easley, SC
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New: verified Twitter 'OSINT' accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem. What used to be a network of reliable experts has been taken over by profit and click driven verified accounts. Everyone loses out. "Unprecedented" levels 404media.co/twitter-verified…
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Regular reminder that The Spectator Index is just some guy with a Twitter account, and Walter Bloomberg — even though he tweets like a wire service — isn't Bloomberg, he's just some guy named Walter Bloomberg.
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Some of the most measured voices I’m hearing on here, the ones who seem most serious about ending this agony, seem to come from Israelis whose loved ones have just been murdered or abducted by Hamas.
Some examples… 🧵 ⬇️
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MSNBC has quietly taken 3 of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel.
My story and this + internal tension among NBCU staff over how to talk about last week’s attack and what’s going on in Gaza: semafor.com/article/10/13/20…
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New Interview: I talked to Tareq Baconi, an expert on Hamas, about what the group hoped to accomplish, why Israeli government policy toward Hamas has changed over the years, & how to understand the sheer scale of the violence & cruelty of recent days. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…
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The messaging discipline is absolutely incredible. Nothing distracts him from the key points: rising profits, stagnating wages, and escalating class conflict
Harrison Jacobs retweeted
there is a loft in soho where people are interested in fascist authors, occultism, and books about race and iq. with the help of silicon valley, they are also trying to build a cryptocity on the mediterranean. i wrote about the startup behind it, praxis: motherjones.com/politics/202…
Harrison Jacobs retweeted
Should AI "art" be labeled? Should images created using AI even be considered art?
Depends who you ask. But opinions on either side are *strong.*
My latest for @artnews: bit.ly/43y85Qr
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Just three staffers remain on Sotheby's NFT team, according to ARTnews, amid quiet layoffs throughout the company. Not the kind of thing that happens during a growth period.
artnews.com/art-news/news/ma…
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🚨Chile's President Boric plans to nationalize lithium
Resource nationalism all the rage in Global South (Mexico, Indonesia, Bolivia) and North ("critical minerals" securitization) albeit from very distinct geoeconomic positions. But there's more to this🧵reuters.com/markets/commodit…
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Wrote about how silly those against "deaccessioning" can be and @whitneymuseum selling a Hopper for the greater good in @artnews's most recent edition of On Balance. It's not just for art people so give it a look. artnews.com/art-news/news/wh…
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For 6 months, @ryangrim and I have been investigating horrendous child sex abuse allegations at @BridgeIntlAcads , a chain of low-cost, for-profit private schools started by 2 former Harvard grads & funded by Gates, Chan Zuckerberg & Omidyar. theintercept.com/2023/03/23/…