I don’t believe in the myth of the “evil genius” anymore. Moral idiots usually prove to also be idiot idiots.

Preview | NM Talkcore: Gideon Jacobs on Musk, Trump & Fiction (2025) New Models · Episode

Went on New Models to discuss my essay in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, "Player One and Main Character." Am realizing this morning maybe I should have titled it "The Story of Player One and Main Character." More fun. 🇺🇸

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Thou shalt not make images—but what if AI does? acobs speaks with Trevor Paglen on how humanity’s ancient anxieties around visual representation are taking on new forms

For @documentjournal.bsky.social, had the pleasure of chatting with @paglen.studio about "Images: A Show" and also images in general. Photos by #DanielArnold, who accompanied me on one of my sessions practicing preaching on the subway. www.documentjournal.com/2025/04/thou...

Player One and Main Character | Los Angeles Review of Books Gideon Jacobs considers what Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as odd couple in chief, have in common.

I wasn’t planning on writing about politics again so soon—not my beat—but then Elon waved around his new chainsaw. Out today for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, "Player One and Main Character." lareviewofbooks.org/article/play...

But also just never mess with an Italian boy's mother.

I wonder if America has ever been so full of people who feel like they have nothing to lose, indifferent to the prospect of life or death, starved for the meaning and attention martyrdom might afford.

Trump l’Oeil | Los Angeles Review of Books Gideon Jacobs peers into the uncanny valley of the Republican President-elect.

The finger pointing is well underway for Dems but the fundamental problem is that those fingers can only point to other fingers. Harris would have lost w/ Bernie’s politics and Biden’s identity. My essay from just before election in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/trum... 🇺🇸