Under Tim Cook, Apple aided the CCP's censorship and surveillance of its population. It removed almost all VPNs from the Chinese app store, and built a joint-data center with the Chinese government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...
Hopefully this transition will allow him more time to do what he does best: betray his supposed principles by appeasing authoritarian leaders like Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
I’ll confess to some confusion here. I thought Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney was Todd Blanche.
I didn’t know you were a Chicagoan; I was at this show, too, and as much as I hate public wedding proposals, the one at this concert at least got us a great live version of “Judy and the Dream of Horses."
An action film starring Bob Odenkirk and Henry Winkler, made by a director known mainly for a J.G. Ballard adaptation and a psychedelic folk horror trip? Count me in.
@michael-feinberg.bsky.social was joined by @benmckenzie.bsky.social, writer and director of the new documentary, “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money,” on Lawfare Daily to discuss his years-long deep dive into the cryptocurrency industry.
Now another one of them is running for Congress in New York based on his unassailable record of…being an online influencer, as near as I can tell?
Please, for the love of god, can we be quit of this awful family? They’re fallible humans, not demigods deserving of office by dint of their name.
One of his father’s 29 year-old campaign workers drowned to death because his other uncle wouldn’t call the police to report that he drunkenly drove the car containing her into a river. He had enough wherewithal to extricate himself from the sinking car — just not to do anything that would help her.
His father — that patron saint of modern liberalism — worked for Joseph McCarthy when it was advantageous to his career, and later, as Attorney General, authorized the wiretapping of MLK Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Coalition.
Let’s not forget that his uncle, while controlling the presidency, only approached civil rights in a piecemeal manner, and was a huge disappointment to the civil rights movement up until the atrocities in 1963 Birmingham forced his hand. Perhaps we can finally stop the hagiography of this family.
On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social was joined by @benmckenzie.bsky.social, writer and director of the new documentary, “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money,” to discuss his deep dive into the cryptocurrency industry. youtu.be/dxmsXtlxlg4
As someone who was in the FBI while the investigations were ongoing, and who now works at @lawfaremedia.org I cannot overemphasize how thorough the site’s coverage of the events truly was — and is.
On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social and Frank Dikötter discussed his new book “Red Dawn Over China,” the early years of the Chinese communist movement, and how our current understanding of the era greatly differs from our previous assumptions. youtu.be/SmkLIvpeo9k
For what it’s worth, I’m quite sure that Vatican City has a lower crime rate than the United States, and that none of the Swiss Guard have murdered any protestors of late.
I’ll settle for him not asking, “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
Let’s see if these are as helpful for ex-government types as they were for Bowie and Eno.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
@yaqiu.bsky.social is right, and for reasons that many of you will understand, it sets my teeth on edge.
On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social and human rights advocate @yaqiu.bsky.social discussed the role of AI in China’s surveillance and censorship apparatus, both online and offline. youtu.be/fT_albJp40A
I try and read the children’s classics to the little guy, but when we get to this page, I can’t help but deliver a disquisition on Samuel Fuller’s filmography and the controversy over his late career movie “White Dog.”
This is obviously said with a bit of snark, but in a seriousness, I’m glad Anthropic is actually thinking about the philosophical and theological ramifications of what they’re doing, and wish their competitors were also this probing.
Given the rhetoric of so many of its supporters, I think AI falls more into the category of a graven image.
Many career public servants risked their livelihoods and reputations to speak out against what is happening to our country. It would be nice if elected officials — almost all of whom have much greater resources and security — showed a modicum of the same courage.
His show in DC will probably be my thirtieth or so time seeing him, and given the themes and purposes he’s articulated for this tour in particular, I’ve never been more excited. If we ever needed a dose of “Land of Hope and Dreams,” it’s now.
It’s difficult to overstate the anger, frustration, and heartache that comes with seeing the nation to which you devoted your life destroy itself on the world stage.
And they shut down the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, and ODNI’s Foreign Malign Influence Center. And DOJ announced it was severely curtailing prosecutions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
We all now have ringside seats to see a great power self-immolate for no valid reason.
Yeah, I think he’s dead wrong on Ukraine, and most things, for that matter. My only point was simply that on PRC issues, he had actually done *some* homework, which puts him miles ahead of the rest of DOD. But miles ahead of a bunch of fools is still pretty far behind the curve.
In light of recently released footage from a different shooting in Minneapolis, I’m re-upping this article.
For a variety of reasons, I avoided Coachella like the plague when I lived in Silver Lake. But this could easily convince me to now take the trip.
As a bonus incentive to go there — and I was sworn by the owner not to reveal the story behind the legend — it’s haunted.
