Follow-ups on Israel and AI
The writer and political adviser Nimrod Flaschenberg discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe revisits the hype around ChatGPT
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The writer and political adviser Nimrod Flaschenberg discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe revisits the hype around ChatGPT
Maxine Doogan and Tara Burns, contributors to this report, on how cops are snooping on sex workers, and using what they learn to spy on the rest of us • David Broder, author of Mussolini’s Grandchildren, on the fascist heritage behind Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her party
DH comments on the bank failures • Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative updates us on the state of the carceral state • Annelle Sheline on the Chinese-brokered deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Historian and union president Paul Ortiz on the DeSantis agenda and resistance to it • human rights lawyer Noa Levy on the far right agenda in Israel and resistance to it
Journalist Judith Levine on moves to defund the Kinsey Institute, and on the trans kids panic • Phil Wegner of the University of Florida on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s moves to quash academic freedom in that state
Kari Lydersen, author of this In These Times article, and Ron Kaminkow, locomotive engineer and general secretary of Railroad Workers United, talk about the miseries of the industry and why it should be naitonalized.
Anatol Lieven on the slim prospects for peace in Ukraine and growing bellicosity towards China • Jairus Banaji, author of this Phenomenal World article, on the politicized structure of Indian capitalism generally, and the scandal surrounding Gautam Adani (Hindenburg report here)
Software engineer Dwayne Monroe on the reality behind the hype around ChatGPT (and the sinister implications of AI) • Political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on Lula’s return to the presidency of Brazil, and the landscape of the country’s politics generally
Ann Neumann, author of this article (sorry, probably paywalled), on the bloody war in Ethiopia • two views on a proposed South American currency arrangement launched by Brazilian president Lula, one from Andres Arauz, the other from Brian Mier
Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, on that country’s trajectory of decline • Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life, talks about the fight for abortion rights in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it must be part of a larger struggle for reproductive justice