The Adriatic’s Best-Kept Secret Just Got a Cindy Sherman

The New Yorker takes the Adriatic Riviera by storm — and we only have until June 30th Before you surrender another June weekend to the sweat and sequins of Pride season, allow me to suggest an alternative itinerary: fly to Montenegro, walk to Petrović Palace in Podgorica, and stand in front of a Cindy […]

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Investors and their Wishful Thinking Have Led Us All to Fantasies of a Quick Return to Strait of Hormuz Normality

For a few months now the consensus amongst many powerful firms & institutions is that the SoH would reopen in June, the world thereafter returning to normality. But with that fallacy now disproven, it's time to consider the possibility that the SoH might remain closed for months, even years on end.

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UFC Fight Venue Construction Takes Over White House Thanks to Trump

Construction on the ring for the “UFC Freedom 250” mixed martial arts event on June 14 at the White House has begun.

Pieces of the blue and white ring could be seen dwarfing the building Tuesday. The structure, according to what President Trump told reporters last month, will be able to hold 4,500 fans for the event, which coincides with Flag Day and Trump’s 80th birthday. An additional 75,000…

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"THE BALLROOM AND THE BULLET: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Regime Turned a Near-Assassination Into a Real Estate Pitch — And Why Every Camera in the Room Was the Point" - 28 April 2026

They didn't just survive the shooting. They wrote the script, cast the shooter, and sold the tickets. Welcome to the most expensive ballroom fundraiser in American history.

Being Jewish After Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart is running out of friends. It has been a year since the City College of New York professor of journalism published his latest book on Israel (or Palestine-Israel, if he had a say) under the ominous title, _Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza_. In case his slant was unclear, the subheading, _A Reckoning_ , clarifies his views. But Beinart is unfazed. He wants his anonymous…

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Palantir’s 22-Point Manifesto, Decoded

What The Technological Republic says about software, state power, and the future of defense tech.

Palantir’s recent X post is worth reading carefully, not because it is subtle, but because it is unusually explicit. In 22 compressed points, the company distilled the argument of The Technological Republic into a public statement of ideology: Silicon Valley owes a debt to the nation, software now…

In Our Glorious AI Future, There Will Be No Such Thing as Money (For You)

“A.I. capacity may soon displace oil or enriched uranium as the resource that dictates the global balance of power. [Open AI’s C.E.O.] Sam Altman has said that computing power is ‘the currency of the future.’” — The New Yorker


Gather around, everyday working people, and allow me to lay out a grand vision for a brave new world. A world in which all economic functions are done by…

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Iran, U.S. set to begin peace talks under the shadow of turmoil in Lebanon

The Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Lebanon, Hezbollah, responded to the late-February strikes on Iran by immediately firing missiles at Israel.

Now that a ceasefire has been reached between the U.S., Israel and Iran, all eyes have shifted toward Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah continue to launch strikes at each other.

Fiery disagreement about whether the ceasefire includes…

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“Ci si può fidare di Sam Altman? E’ un sociopatico con il dito sul pulsante, farebbe qualsiasi cosa. Mente e non si preoccupa delle conseguenze”: l’inchiesta del New Yorker sul fondatore di OpenAI

“Non penso che Sam sia la persona che dovrebbe avere il dito sul pulsante“. Basterebbe questa frase, pronunciata nel 2019 da Ilya Sutskever — ex scienziato capo e co-fondatore di OpenAI — per inquadrare il livello di allarme che circonda l’uomo più potente della Silicon Valley. A pronunciarla non è stato un rivale invidioso, ma […]

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What in Tarnation (episode #1599)

Language is always evolving, and that’s also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for “telephone” was one fist below your mouth and the other at your ear, as if you’re holding an old-fashioned candlestick phone. Now you can sign “phone” with a one-handed gesture. Plus, colorful restaurant slang from the hit […]

Stephen Miller, todo lo que debes saber sobre un psicópata sin tener que preguntarle a Trump

Las muestras de racismo contra el jugador Vinícius Júnior se repiten, lamentablemente, con cierta frecuencia. La agresión consiste en emular a un mono desde las tribunas, saltando y gesticulando igual que un primate. Más allá de la propia degradación de quien insulta, la parodia no busca animalizar a Vinícius; el objetivo es humillarle, someterlo. El psicólogo Paul Bloom considera que el sadismo…

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