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Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com
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Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, writer, editor, strategist. • www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton • christopherallbritton.com

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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly. Man. Just no. I can’t accept it.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/08/2026
America has the Greatest Health Care in the World® Part LXVIII: I’m doing the patient portal for PT and they just asked me to review the patient rights notice or whatever, and this is what I see when I click the link:
absurdly small document outlining patients' rights that is impossible to read.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 21/07/2026
In the annals of businesses doing good work, last night I accidentally bought 7 extra tickets for the Odyssey at the DC @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social. I filed for a refund, not really expecting much. They just called me ON THE PHONE and cleared it up, no problem. And the woman was so nice.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 25/04/2026
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Kurds shut out of new US-Iran talks: a retrospective
For the largest, stateless people in the world, an exhausting deja vú.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/03/2026
For the 1st time, Iran hits Iraqi Kurdistan's Peshmerga with ballistic missiles — 6 dead, 30 wounded. The KRG has no air defenses, no seat at negotiating table, and no way to stop a war they didn't start from rolling over everything they've built. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/iraq-kurds-c...
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Iraq’s Kurds Are Caught in the Crossfire of a War They Didn’t Start
Iraqi Kurdistan, once an oasis of hard-won stability, must navigate complex security challenges stemming from the war in the Middle East.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 21/03/2026
Two holidays, one city. How wartime Eid-al-Fitr and Nowruz are seen in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. www.iranwar.news/p/what-irani...
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What Iranian New Year, end of Ramadan feel like as war rages
By coincidence, the Iranian New Year of Nowruz and the celebration marking the end of Ramadan, Eid-al-Fitr, arrived on the same day. Learn about how Kurds celebrate these dual milestones not far from
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 19/03/2026
Drones overhead. Airport closed. Gas fields dark. Dollar scarce. I spent an evening with Kurdish businessmen in Erbil doing the math on how long they can last. America's most reliable allies in the region are paying for a war they didn't start. New: open.substack.com/pub/irandisp...
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America’s friends in Iraq pay the price
The fighting next door to the Kurdish region of Iraq is freezing Erbil’s economy, as grounded flights, power shortages, and a dollar crunch leave business with little fiscal room to maneuver.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/02/2026
DoD to Anthropic: drop AI safeguards or lose your $200M contract. Anthropic: no. First Silicon Valley vs. Trump AI showdown, and it landed on a Friday deadline. open.substack.com/pub/trulyback/p/w…
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 13/02/2026
Should the companies building the most powerful technology in human history get to choose the people who regulate them? h̲t̲t̲p̲s̲://t̲r̲u̲l̲y̲b̲a̲c̲k̲.s̲u̲b̲s̲t̲a̲c̲k̲.c̲o̲m̲/p̲/w̲h̲y̲-a̲i̲-g̲i̲a̲n̲t̲s̲-a̲r̲e̲-b̲u̲y̲i̲n̲g̲-t̲h̲e̲-m̲i̲d̲t̲e̲r̲m̲s̲
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/02/2026
Alex Bores quit Palantir over its ICE contracts. Now Palantir's co-founder is spending some of those ICE profits to fund attack ads against Bores's congressional campaign because Bores wrote NY's AI safety law. trulyback.substack.com/p/why-ai-gia…
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/02/2026
Of the Best Picture nominees this year, I've seen F1 and Frankenstein, and they were ... fine? I am working my way through the rest as quickly as I can, but neither F-entries struck me as Best Picture material. Not horrible, not great.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/02/2026
The AI industry is spending more than $400 million to pick its own regulators in the 2026 midterms. Anthropic just dropped $20M on one side. OpenAI's backers have $100M on the other. More at Truly Back. Free to subscribe.
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Why AI Giants Are Buying the Midterms
The AI industry is spending more than $400 million to pick its own regulators.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
Loved contributing to this series. Thank you for the opportunity!
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
The Gilded Age robber barons were ruthless. They bought legislators and hired strikebreakers. But they couldn't control what farmers thought about them. Tarbell exposed Standard Oil. Sinclair's Jungle changed federal law. The media was too diffuse to control. That's no longer true.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 10/12/2025
This is enraging, and you should be VERY VERY pissed off about it. But I'm happy that my lovely partner is part of the organization that did the study that revealed this shadiness!
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Instacart caught using shady algorithm to charge different prices to individual customers — in the same stores, bombshell study reveals
Groundwork, a consumer advocacy group, said Instacart’s pricing algorithm could lead to shoppers forking over an extra $1,200 on groceries each year.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/12/2025
Told you so… '“Yes, there is a new mayor, and there are a lot of worries, but our clients are saying, ‘We love New York,’” Naftali said. “There is no slowdown in demand.”'
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Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
The AI industry is growing up and honestly it's a little weird
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
If you get bored at Thanksgiving and there are people you've just met, come up with a totally made-up job when they ask you what you do. E.g., "I manage sovereign AIs that agentically run pirate anti-regime broadcasts for resistance cells around the country. I'm a thorn in the side of The Man."
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
(FULL DISCLOSURE: I used to work with Nuzzi at The Daily Beast and edited several of her stories. She was fine. Talented, driven, but hardly a generational voice.) After Lizza's Part III, I'm convinced neither he nor Nuzzi should ever work in journalism again. But Lizza might be the greater villain
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/11/2025
Live photo from NYC of all the billionaires fleeing
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 28/10/2025
squadron of six fighter jets just flew over DC. Any idea why?
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 07/10/2025
Thanks @thebulwark.com for one of the clearest distillations I’ve ever read of how we got to the this crisis in journalism. The moment you mention Craigslist and how it decimated classifieds I knew it was going to be good.
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The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.
We drink their milkshake.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 26/09/2025
The $3,000-per-work settlement could set a new benchmark for future copyright negotiations between AI companies, publishers and creators.
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Anthropic’s Record Settlement Marks the Moment AI Companies Lost Their Free Lunch
Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion to settle a copyright case, in a case that might change everything about how AI gets built
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 17/09/2025
In my years as a journalist and my recent deep dive into the world of AI and media, I’ve been thinking long and hard (much like GPT-5 these days) on some of the key takeaways from recent AI and media news. They are:
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 16/09/2025
@cloudflare.social CEO points out the ratio of web pages crawled to visitors ballooned from 2:1 (2015) to 18:1 (6/25). @similarwebinsights.bsky.social reports zero-click searches grew from 56%>69% year-on-year in May. Meanwhile, Google says that's based on flawed methodologies.
IAB Europe drops new rules for AI platforms to pay publishers; framework demands tech companies compensate media outlets for content scraping as traffic losses mount.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 08/09/2025
Flattery, name-dropping, peer-pressure... AIs can be just as susceptible to these things as humans.
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Flattery will get you everywhere... Including past AI guardrails
How name-dropping Andrew Ng got ChatGPT to synthesize drugs.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 20/08/2025
How am I supposed to work in these conditions?
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 10/07/2025
Just saw this at the @nationalpress.bsky.social in dc. Fantastic and deeply affecting (and enraging, if you care about justice and accountability). Shoutout to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social , @dionnissenbaum.bsky.social and @conorpowell.bsky.social for an important commitment of journalism
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EXCLUSIVE: Watch Our Explosive New Documentary, ‘Who Killed Shireen?’
Zeteo uncovers the hidden identity – and fate – of the Israeli soldier who killed the famous Palestinian-American journalist in 2022.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 19/06/2025
My boy likes books
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 16/06/2025
Just watched Fountain of Youth on Apple TV. It’s … pretty bad. There are some fun moments - Guy Ritchie, after all — but overall, it’s a chaotic mess. I made it better, however, by imagining all the lines were delivered by Jason Statham in Snatch. It really works.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 03/06/2025
“Mountainhead” is one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever scene. It depicts the moral bankruptcy and intellectual shallowness of Silicon Valley tech bros so perfectly. It’s not a satire, it’s a vivisection of modern tech culture.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 02/06/2025
The fact that Ukraine targeted exclusively military targets vs the Russian practice of indiscriminate civilian bombing *should* make it clear to everyone who the good guys are in this fight.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/06/2025
Exactly right. Such an impressive op.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month!
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/06/2025
Absolutely true. 100%.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/06/2025
Absolutely gobsmacked (in a good way) by #Ukraine's massive attack on Russian air assets. What a logistical and military tour de force. Let them into NATO *now* and put them in charge of strategy development for future war fighting. Slava Ukraine!
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 30/04/2025
I think the “Her” captured the emergence of AI pretty well, but the one thing it got wrong was the lack of an avatar for the AI OS. I think it’s obvious it would no be voice only, but also include a human-like avatar for its interface. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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👇🏽 Below is an all-hands email from our CEO, Luis von Ahn – we are going… | Duolingo | 673 comments
👇🏽 Below is an all-hands email from our CEO, Luis von Ahn – we are going to be AI-first. Just like how betting on mobile in 2012 made all the difference, we’re making a similar call now. This time t...
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 31/03/2025
Psst, babe. Wake up. New Adam Entous major story on the #ukraine-usa partnership just dropped.
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The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War
This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 08/02/2025
Guess Who’s Back? open.substack.com/pub/trulybac...
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Guess Who’s Back?
It's time to get back into the fight
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 19/01/2025
NYC Saturday night. Greatest city in the world.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 18/12/2024
Hot on the heels of Yule Cat, I watched Red One last night and was delightfully surprised. It only got 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, but how can you not like The Rock, JK Simmons as Santa Claus and Chris Evans as a ne'er-do-well conman?
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 18/12/2024
Hey all- my last post of the year on how #journalists and #media professionals can use #AI effectively, efficiently, and ethically is up at MediaCopilot on substack. Would love for folks to give it a read and offer some feedback if they're so inclined.
mediacopilot.substack.com
How to Set up a Local LLM on your Laptop — and Why You Should
Running AI models locally guarantees privacy for sensitive info and protecting sources.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/12/2024
Why reinvent the prompt when entire libraries already exist? My latest post at #mediacopilot on how journalists and media professionals can more effectively use #AI. #journalism #media #technology
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How AI Prompt Templates Improve Writing, Save Time, and Enhance SEO
Discover the best tools and techniques to transform lackluster AI outputs into compelling copy.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/12/2024
Time *always* names the winner of the presidency Person of the Year. This is hardly news, scandalous, or, frankly, meaningful.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 09/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge #D&D Day 7
The Lord of the Rings Book Cover
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 08/12/2024
influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge #D&D Day 6
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 06/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge #D&D Day 5
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 4
Cover of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
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