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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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Well, if you pay fixers in Syria $250 a day to find you the story you want, they will find it - but none of this has anything to do with journalism
Terrorism coverage in the US was gradually turned into Hollywood scriptwriting - with devastating consequences for Muslims worldwide but also for US foreign policy
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10 Oct
What is the opposite of a simulacrum? Not an imaginary copy of reality, but a piece of reality that copies the imagination. Because Baudrillard was wrong. We do not live in the age of simulacra. We live in the age of their opposite
Americans no longer ask whether a book or television series would work in real life, they ask whether real life would work in a movie or television series.
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3 Oct
Josep Borrell about to speak in La Toja. Should be an interesting debrief on Turkey and Belarus
Borrell like almost every voice from the Commission speaks of Europe as a third model between China and the US. @RobinNiblett would not approve
Two main geopolitical questions today for Borrell: US-China rivalry and the future of Africa
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3 Oct
We now reached the point where German politicians who took a hard line against refugees are confessing they were wrong and apologizing to Merkel

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While several politicians in Europe take aim at Islam as a religion, Merkel welcomes a million Syrian and Afghan refugees and turns it into a huge, undisputed national success
Thanks for informing me Söder is an opportunist politician, a big beast of CSU. That was the point. When someone like Soder apologizes you know what the politics is and who won
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30 Sep
Watching the debate now. How exactly is Biden not being pilloried for this “keep yapping, man”
Now Biden attacking Trump for closing the economy. Two minutes before he was saying Trump did nothing and ignored the danger
30 minutes in, so far Trump better
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25 Sep
People in my social media timelines seemed only superficially worried. Instead, their posts contained an underlying sense of excitement about real life finally catching up with the science fiction aesthetics of Blade Runner and Akira. julian.digital/2020/09/25/is-…
Sometimes founders are able to re-create the fantasy narratives of their pitch decks. Sometimes you end up with Theranos.
And even when you do end up with Theranos. Perhaps VCs should buy the movie rights to the startups they invest in as a hedge against their biggest failures?
It’s the absence of religiosity that has kept Europe from creating its own Google or Facebook. The US is able to create larger companies because it’s able to believe in larger and more ambitious narratives.
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24 Sep
New Xi Jinping speech on technology. Not much new but brings together separate strands of his thought
newamerica.org/cybersecurity-…
Notice how for him technology is a response to the main social contradiction
Practice over theory is what the Xi doctrine is all about. Here he is very clear: “I have often said that the selection of research directions should adhere to demand orientation, starting from urgent national needs and long-term requirements, truly resolving practical problems.”
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