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Coda Story @codastory.com · 03/06/2026

1/ Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder of the Haitian Times, reflects on exile in an essay from his memoir: it's not about place, but the gap between who you are and who a nation insists you must be. buff.ly/XPeIMP3

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 28/03/2026

1/ Nearly 1/4 of U.S. adults now turn to AI for therapy, many using ChatGPT. Irina Matchavariani shares how using AI as a “therapist” helped, then harmed her, during her break-up, and explores why this $2B industry poses growing risks to vulnerable users. buff.ly/jj40yyq

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 24/03/2026

1/ When the US and Israel struck Iran, AI helped select 2,000+ targets in 24 hours. One of the first buildings destroyed was a girls' school. 165 people were killed, mostly children aged 7-12. Trump called it proof that wars can now be fought "forever, and very successfully." buff.ly/RY2blRV

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 13/02/2026

1/ UK age-verification law may push small porn producers out of business. Creators warn of higher costs, traffic drops, threats to niche & ethical content, and new safety risks for sex workers. buff.ly/aG5dW3j

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 26/12/2025

Shortly before her UN AI for Good keynote, Abeba Birhane was told to remove Gaza/Palestine/Israel references and change "genocide" to "war crimes." She refused and withdrew. Organizers reversed course minutes before the event started. buff.ly/fAbY3mh

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 24/12/2025

"We are at an exponential rate losing these independent niche sites." Britain’s age-verification rules are hitting small porn producers hardest — cutting traffic, raising costs, and reshaping what sexual content survives online. buff.ly/fczR31y

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/12/2025

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidency. His victory marks another swing of Latin America’s political pendulum to the right — and toward Donald Trump, Phineas Rueckert reports from Santiago. 📧 See the bigger picture, subscribe to Coda Currents: buff.ly/sUOlCMF

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 09/12/2025

In Oliver Bullough’s Oligarchy this week: Welcoming shell companies has enabled certain British overseas territories to become a gangster’s paradise. Can they be persuaded to become more transparent? Sign up here: buff.ly/MitUjN8

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 04/12/2025

From Haiti to Ukraine, Garry Pierre-Pierre connects colonialism’s lasting trauma to today’s global crises—and what it means for democracy. Watch the full episode of THE THINKERS, filmed at ZEG Storytelling Festival here: buff.ly/8PxbjaZ

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 03/12/2025

From New York to Palestine, people are ditching their smartphones, rejecting constant surveillance and platform capture. They say they’re decolonizing their consciousness: buff.ly/1IbnKJn

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 25/11/2025

1/ Coda Presents: The Age of Exile What does displacement look like in an era where you can maintain your identity, your networks, your influence across continents through digital connection?

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/11/2025

In Oliver Bullough’s Oligarchy this week: Meme coins have no intrinsic value, aren’t intended to have intrinsic value and yet they soar in price. Are we heading towards 1929-style financial ruin? Also: Drug money and Chinese laundries. Sign up here: buff.ly/nSG0KAw

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 12/11/2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 05/11/2025

1/ Almost 25% of U.S. adults now use AI for therapy, many relying on ChatGPT. @irina_match describes how AI "therapy" both helped and hurt her during a breakup, examining why this $2B industry presents increasing dangers to at-risk users. buff.ly/Vc9gJn6

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 04/11/2025

In Oligarchy this week: Oliver Bullough reports from a crypto conference in Dubai dominated by evidence of Russian commerce. And how increasingly authoritarian Kyrgyzstan is becoming a ‘cryptatorship’ Sign up here: buff.ly/xlJ43Jf

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 04/11/2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 28/10/2025

In Oligarchy this week: Oliver Bullough notes that the Trump administration is spearheading a new ‘Gilded Age’ of excess and corruption. Also: Can the Kremlin be made accountable for stealing billions? Sign up here: buff.ly/KjnYOh2.

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 21/10/2025

Coming up in Oliver Bullough's Oligarchy newsletter: Bitcoins seized by US authorities from a Cambodian businessman charged with crimes that include forced labor amount to $15 billion. Who gets to keep the bitcoins and how will they be used? Sign up here: buff.ly/TyH4QqX

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/10/2025

In Oligarchy this week: Oliver Bullough notes how governments from Uganda to India and the EU are planning their own digital currencies. But the White House is happy for billionaires to hoover up the profits. Sign up here: buff.ly/TyH4QqX.

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 09/10/2025

Apple caves in to Pam Bondi and removes an ICE-tracking app, just like it once caved to the Kremlin and removed Alexei Navalny’s smart voting app. Also: Trump scratches his Bagram itch, and Europe’s Gaza test. Subscribe to Coda Currents: buff.ly/AuDxfze

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 08/10/2025

5/5 Read Oliver Bullough's full analysis and sign up to the Oligarchy newsletter for weekly updates on how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us: buff.ly/AuDxfze

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 07/10/2025

In Oligarchy this week: Oliver Bullough tells the tale of two bitcoin billionaires. One whose $7 billion bitcoin haul was confiscated in London. And the other, reinventing himself as a champion of liberty and individual autonomy. Sign up here: buff.ly/AuDxfze

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 02/10/2025

Tony Blair as Gaza's governor, Trump lobbyists as power brokers in Africa, and Pavel Durov battling French intelligence to influence elections - who are the unaccountable individuals who shape our world? 📧 Subscribe to Coda Currents to connect the dots: buff.ly/5wK9cid

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 30/09/2025

1/ Hours before her UN AI for Good talk, Abeba Birhane was told to censor references to Gaza/Palestine/Israel and replace “genocide” with “war crimes.” She walked away. Minutes before showtime, organisers backed down. buff.ly/8VyY2Nv

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 25/09/2025

In this week’s Currents: How Meta’s experiences quashing regulations around the world prepared it to buy American politicians. Also: A pivotal election in Moldova, Putin’s gift to Pyongyang, and Russia’s increased digital authoritarianism. Sign up here: buff.ly/rWerVQn

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 25/09/2025

Has Vladimir Putin put North Korea on the path towards a nuclearized navy? And Meta’s new super PACs apply to the U.S. lessons it already learned in the rest of the world about how to lobby politicians and buy deregulation. Sign up here: buff.ly/rWerVQn

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 20/09/2025

In this devastating dispatch, she documents life under Israel's complete blockade, where children ask for bread as birthday gifts and families face starvation. Subscribe to the Sunday Read newsletter to get it in your inbox tomorrow: buff.ly/t2IfjIU

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 19/09/2025

When are Western governments going to catch up to the tricks and innovations of Russian sanction dodgers and Chinese money launderers? Maybe reducing the number of US cash dollars in circulation might be a start. buff.ly/dmtPw23

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/09/2025

The market for AI in mental health is valued at $2 billion already, and growing fast. But substituting human therapists for machines is fraught with risk, writes Irina Matchavariani. Unregulated, artificial intimacy has become a matter of life and death. buff.ly/eJnYEIc

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/09/2025

From Spain to Italy to Hungary, the narrative, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, is taking its cue from the White House – Conservatives are at war. Also: AI is taking over critical human tasks, from mental healthcare to governance. Sign up here: buff.ly/t2IfjIU

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 16/09/2025

1/ “Design is always political,” anthropologist Dragana Kaurin told Ellery Roberts Briddle. “It enacts underlying policies, biases, and exclusion. Who gets to make decisions? How are decisions made? Is there space for iterations?” buff.ly/51rjPn7

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/09/2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/09/2025

Russia's MAX app should be named Putin's Panopticon. Users say the app enables total surveillance, without the end-to-end encryption used by Western platforms. While Russians are watched by Max, migrant workers’ geolocations have to be accessible at all times. buff.ly/7NAUJBy

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/07/2025

5/5 Read @OliverBullough.bsky.social's full analysis and sign up to the Oligarchy newsletter for weekly updates on how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us. buff.ly/pUqkrTJ

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 27/06/2025

1/5 NEW OLIGARCHY: Old systems to shuttle money across borders, such as hawala, have long been used to bypass Western banking systems and even sanctions. buff.ly/XQ7axYU

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 19/06/2025

When AI can’t read your language, it can be both a shield and a barrier. In Inner Mongolia, digital obscurity of the script helped protesters evade surveillance – but new AI projects could change: buff.ly/6PvEWpb

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025

“Dictators understand our importance. That’s why they hunt us. That’s why they criminalize us. That’s why they lock us up. And that’s why they jumped for joy when Trump cut our budget.” Nicola Careem of recently defunded RFE/RL, with Paul Cethwynd of AFP at #ZEG2025.

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025

“Not all minds are captured in this country.” @irmadimitradze.bsky.social on the fight for press freedom in Georgia and why it matters far beyond its borders, in conversation with @mariaressa.bsky.social, @caoilfhionn.bsky.social, and @jodieginsberg.bsky.social at #ZEG2025.

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025

“Discomfort can be productive.” Dr. Erzsébet Barát on why true solidarity means resisting the urge for easy answers and instead learning to live with the discomfort of ambiguity, vulnerability, and difference in the fight against the patriarchy. #ZEG2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025

“Privacy is the foundation of your ability to craft who you are,” Christopher Wylie on why you should think twice before handing over your data. From "The Elephant in the Algorithm" convo with @aiannucci.bsky.social, Adam Pincus & @alixdunn.com. #ZEG2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025

“Can I do one more Lebedev?” Paul Caruana Galizia, @edcaesar.bsky.social & @oliverbullough.bsky.social trade anecdotes on Lord of Siberia Evgeny Lebedev: his diets, hobbies, bugbears. Stories of oligarchy must reach a wide audience, says Galizia. To draw people in, start with the absurd. #ZEG2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/06/2025

1/2 On the second day of #ZEG2025, Sam Gill talked about what comes next for philanthropy: “The question isn’t whether we’re in crisis — we are. So what’s the opportunity in desolation?”

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/06/2025

Giorgi Gigashvili took us through how classical music is a powerful voice of resilience and defiance for Georgia’s future — where art meets activism. #ZEG2025 #KeysOfDefiance #MusicAsResistance

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 13/06/2025

“Truth is the friction, the gravity, that allows you to stand up. When there is no truth, the best spectacle wins.” Yale historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social‬, joining #ZEG2025 online, on why truth is democracy’s foundation.

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 13/06/2025

“In Haiti, people are looking for ‘glory days’ — and the glory days [back then] was a dictatorship.” Garry Pierre-Pierre on how authoritarian nostalgia is weaponized at a #ZEG2025 panel alongside @antelava.bsky.social‬ and Jillian Green, moderated by @julieposetti.bsky.social‬ .

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 13/06/2025

“In Europe, satire is seen as a political tool, to make changes... In America, it’s more of a pressure release valve – we can all laugh together at this idiot,” New Yorker editor Susan Morrison on Trump and the power of satire, speaking at #ZEG2025.

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 05/06/2025

5/5 Read @OliverBullough.bsky.social 's full analysis and sign up to the Oligarchy newsletter for weekly updates on how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us: buff.ly/oDJRsA1

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 29/05/2025

5/5 Read @OliverBullough.bsky.social's full analysis and sign up to the Oligarchy newsletter for weekly updates on how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us: buff.ly/ATURS4r

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 29/05/2025

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Coda Story @codastory.com · 25/05/2025

2/2 In this week's Sunday Read: The story of La Prensa's fight for survival and how Nicaraguan journalism adapts to authoritarianism. Sign up here: buff.ly/ATURS4r

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