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Technology controls culture
A nice person sent me a link to a talk Neil Postman gave on the role that technology has in influencing our culture, our politics, and the way we think.
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Yasha Levine
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Influencerism is the highest form of capitalist realism
A political manifesto from mid political influencer Yasha Levine.
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Yasha Levine
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Israel through the looking glass
We put on our matching army green outfits to talk to Ori Goldberg — a former academic and a dissident Israeli — about what it’s like to live in a…
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Yasha Levine
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Ori Goldberg
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Evgenia
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When Russians almost had the West Coast
In honor of the Trump-Putin Alaska meeting — which took place on what used to be Russian territory sold to the United States and which seems to have…
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Yasha Levine
Central Committee: "Zionism is Fake News. We need more fact-checkers!"
The growth of nationalist ideologies in the Soviet Union — not just zionism but Russian, Ukrainian, and other kinds of local nationalisms — was a direct…
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Yasha Levine
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Not all is quiet on the PISTACHIO WARS front
We’ve been sitting on this Pistachio Wars news for a bit but haven’t been able to make the announcement.
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Russia looking for a new idea
We had filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov on again to talk Russian politics in the age of war and global realignment.
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Yasha Levine
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Andrei
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Evgenia
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Slaves to the machine: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the internet
I haven’t been sending out much these few weeks because I’ve gotten sucked into a different type of writing: writing a script and doing research for the…
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Yasha Levine
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From a nefarious russian to a cam girl
Commodification of dissent: How Nadya of Pussy Riot joined the Clergy of the Mall
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Evgenia
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Cannibalistic America w/Greg Grandin
We have a great time chatting with historian Greg Grandin about the end of the American Myth, collapse, America’s war against itself, Clinton and MAGA…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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July 2025

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