Artificial Frameworks about Elon: On Adrian Dittmann and Tommy Robinson
Beware South African oligarchs pitching fascists and technological fixes. Because you may often overlook the technological underbelly.
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Beware South African oligarchs pitching fascists and technological fixes. Because you may often overlook the technological underbelly.
May you have a healthy, effective New Year.
You have a choice. You can spend the next few weeks making a big stink about the fact that the aspiring FBI Director tried to help Trump steal classified documents. Or you can spend it clinging to false claims about Merrick Garland so you can blame him rather than John Roberts for the fact that Trump won.
Jeff Bezos’ response to being targeted by the same kind of gossipy dick pic sniffing that WaPo has picked up from NYPost was to demand the kind of corrections WaPo hasn’t made.
The relationship between Trump and Elon Musk seems to be more complex than just two Malignant Narcissists in a room together.
Merry Christmas!
An article on the ABC News settlement published by Jeff Bezos’ rag collapsed the distinction between media companies, including a multinational company built off a century of IP protection for its cartoon mouse, and the journalism small corners of those media companies might do.
Given the 8 year con job Trump has pursued to get Republicans to believe his false myth of grievance, you will never get Republicans to oppose Kash Patel as FBI Director by asking them to disavow that myth.
We talked about the continuing resolution and the Barry Loudermilk report.
In a story misrepresenting several things about Trump’s use of DOJ to attack his adversaries, Maggie Haberman neglects to mention the role leaks to her played in events described in Barry Loudermilk’s criminal referral of Liz Cheney.