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MAGA influencer with 2.8M Twitter followers spent the last month in Moscow. He's now on the board of Putin's newest influence operation.
Here's how Jackson Hinkle went from spreading debunked war claims to the Kremlin's inner circle, thanks to @dossier_center
Mikhail Khodorkovskyx.comThe transition from Ottoman to European colonial rule was embodied in the Sykes-Picot Agreement, reached secretly in 1916 while World War I was still being fought, in which a British and a French diplomat essentially divided what had been the Ottoman-controlled Middle East into British and French spheres of influence. This European era lasted
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
After TPUSA, "Kirk was bombarded with infuriated text messages and calls from Netanyahu’s wealthy allies in the US, including many who had funded TPUSA. According to his longtime friend, the Zionist donors treated Kirk with outright contempt, essentially ordering him to fall back into line.
'He was being told what... See more
Max Blumenthalx.com
incredible work on alignment steganography from anthropic fellows
i've been looking for a straussian explanation of why china keeps publishing open models out of the goodness of their hearts
if you do stuff like use open models to, idk, clean *ahem* synthetically paraphrase your data to... See more
Originally I assumed this situation was unique to Yemen. However, I later came across the work of Janine Wedel, a professor and author, who argues that the phenomenon of the shadow elite is widespread: “A new breed of players has arisen in the past several decades … whose manoeuvrings are beyond the traditional mechanisms of accountability. They,
... See moreJoi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
