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Marina Gorbis

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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the Land of Billionaire Barbarians www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o... “Throughout history, the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people erected monuments that redefined their cities and communities… Silicon Valley, on the other hand, has about as much cultural capital as an airport.” Yep!
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Opinion | In the Land of Billionaire Barbarians (Gift Article)
The center of the tech industry is culturally barren because wealthy executives have no interest in communities outside their fiefs.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A New Book Seeks to Shame the Elites Who Caved to Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... shocking to see how powerful people are willing to sell out just for money. More understandable in totalitarian states where people’s lives are at risk. these guys are afraid to lose a comma on their income stmt
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Opinion | They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They? (Gift Article)
The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 07/09/2026
Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?
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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Deleted @googlemaps. quislings 🤮
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
odesatothefuture.substack.com/p/our-output... AI companies are creating a world in which agents are trained on archives and missing the repertoires.
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Our Outputs Are Not Us
What are We Losing in the World of Archives, not Repertoires
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Deleting @uber app. Every woman and man who finds the company's behavior appalling should do the same. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
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Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ (Gift Article)
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We can do this too!!! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"You lose your country with multiple small acts of complicity!"
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"Bullshit is the glue that binds this country together." Never missed George Carlin more than right now!
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
These people were making decisions about grant cancellations!!! www.instagram.com/reel/DVtUHcN... A grant to study Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory" bc it's gender-based & about "Jewish culture." Ignorance + power= evil. #NEH #doge #justinfoxdeposition
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All
The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... Thank you @nytimes.com for openly calling out the overt and brazen racism of this administration. We need more media to do this!
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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
If They Call Me A Domestic Terrorist open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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If They Call Me A Domestic Terrorist
This morning, I stumbled across an amazing poem by a wonderful man named Michael F.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.euronews.com/next/2026/01...
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French governmet to ditch US's Teams and Zoom for 'sovereign control'
France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In the meantime, US is experiencing demographic changes that undermine its future: historically low fertility rates (1.6 per woman, well below the 2.1 replacement rate) and net negative migration. Shooting itself in the foot. www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
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U.S. Population Growth Slows Due to Historic Decline in Net International Migration
U.S. population growth slowed to 0.5% between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, according to the newly released Vintage 2025 population estimates.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
State Terror Has Arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o... M. Gessen knows what she’s talking about.
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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
‘Like a Military Occupation’: Clashes Rise With Federal Agents in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u... these photos are from an American city!!! We need to stop this now! Where is our democratic leadership?!
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‘Like a Military Occupation’: Clashes Rise With Federal Agents in Minneapolis
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Includes a great quote from Chekhov: the work of art doesn't have to solve a problem, it just has to formulate it correctly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWC.... Applying to futures work: foresight doesn't have to provide predictions, it has to formulate good insights.
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George Saunders Says Breaking These 3 Delusions Can Save You | The Interview
YouTube video by The Interview
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o... “True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world.”
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Opinion | The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites (cliques). Such cliques seek to legitimize their authority through appeals to their exceptionalism in order to generate durable status hierarchy #backtothefuture
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Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
www.kyivpost.com/post/67441 Are we really back to the Monroe doctrine?! Welcome to 1826!
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Russia Floated Venezuela-for-Ukraine Deal to Trump – Ex-Advisor
In her 2019 Congress testimony, Trump’s former advisor Fiona Hill said Russia floated the idea of a deal to swap Venezuela for Ukraine via informal communications.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/07/2025
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This must be watched!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
From @humanrightswatch — This is what CBS News(Max) chief @bariweiss just yanked an @60Minutes segment about to please Trump. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Testifying during Army-McCarthy hearings, Joseph Nye Welch chief counsel for the US Army, asked McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" This was a turning in media and public opinion of McCarthyism. Will attack on Mark Kelly and other democrats be such a moment?
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... “Shaming the public as rubes for succumbing to conspiracy theories misses what people are trying to tell us: They no longer feel included in the work of choosing their future.” Spot on!
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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
As if the right-wing manosphere weren't enough, we now see the rise of the "mainstream manosphere." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... Ross Douhat of course has the answer: it's extreme feminism 🥲
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What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“Among intellectuals,” Hannah Arendt observed of the early days of Nazi rule, “Gleichschaltung was the rule” — in other words, the intellectual form of anticipatory compliance. 1/3
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Some people still have integrity and conscience. We need more like them!
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
About 1 million people watched Jimmy Kimmel last night on TV. As of this morning more than 9 million watched it on YouTube. Clearest proof of traditional media dying.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Another prominent Black woman loses her job joining the ranks of almost 320,000 Black women who’ve lost their jobs so far this year. The constitute the only female demographic to experience significant job losses during the period.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This story broke my heart. “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?”Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” Don't think Musk or Cavanaugh are capable of feeling shame
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We've known about social determinants of health. This study shows there are political determinants also: healthy ageing is strongly tied to living in democracies and feeling represented by politicians and parties apple.news/A8EzwdJvQQCe... Maybe stop searching for magic elixirs & focus on democracy
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People in Denmark age slower than the rest of the world. Here’s why — BBC Science Focus Magazine
The social, political and environmental situation in your country can quietly affect how fast you age
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Couldn't have said it better. We are trapped in a cycle of short-termism, delivering short-term "wins" for some but incurring huge losses in the near future in terms of climate, democracy, innovation, better/more equitable economy. "This is the time of monsters," indeed.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
How high does the extortion demand have to be for a university or a law firm to not fold? Is $1 bln close?! Seems the sum is going up as more institutions fold. The prisoner’s dilemma working in real time.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"our socioeconomic system concentrates nation-state level wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals, with virtually no checks on what they can choose to do with it." So if Larry Ellison wants to turn CBS News into Free Press TV what institutions of power will be left to disagree?
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"The conscientious path forward is to create educational structures that minimize the temptation to outsource thinking." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“I was born in one dying empire and am now living in another.” Me too.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Thank you @governor.ca.gov. Enough is enough!!! Proud to be a Californian!
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
@tedgioia.bsky.social on the Collapse of Our Knowledge System www.honest-broker.com?utm_source=n... "The biggest changes often happen long before they even get a name...If the New York Times notices the Buddha, the enlightened one has already left town." 🔥
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The Honest Broker | Ted Gioia | Substack
A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia. Click to read The Honest Broker, by Ted Gioia, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's happening here! Sinclair Lewis wrote in 1935 about a populist demagogue who strips Congress of its authority, creates a bloodthirsty militia, imprisons political enemies, restricts rights of women and minorities, and throttles the press in order to “make America a proud, rich land again.”
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Just finished reading this www.newyorker.com/magazine/202.... The simple-mindedness, misreading of history, anti-humanness (and many other unflattering descriptions) fueling so much of our tech and current political elite is truly frightening!!! Explains so much of what is happening in the US.
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I learned this from my investigative journalist friends: documenting crime and corruption is critically important even if the perpetrators are not brought to justice right away. Eventually the are. Thank you @warren.senate.gov
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Arrested development? Search for meaning and validation? Ancient Rome before the fall? Something is not right with our tech elite www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/t...
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The Tech Guys Are Fighting. Literally.
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
NATO for higher education--a mutual defense pact to save our universities. Need more such mutual support pacts across domains--science, nonprofits, philanthropy, etc. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The way universities can survive the Trump era? Band together in an alliance | David Kirp
Nato for higher education – a mutual defense pact is a long-shot approach, but it might just convince the bully in the White House to back off
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
So proud of the brave & essential work of @occrp.org. Much deserved recognition for decades of not only uncovering crime and corruption but also building infrastructure for global investigative journalism. Kudos to visionary co-founders @drewoccrp.bsky.social @paulradu.bsky.social and the team!!!
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
v-dem.net/publications... the third wave of autocratization is accelerating. "it seems clear that the actions the Trump administration is taking domestically amount to an ongoing attempt steering towards democratic breakdown." And this is before we started arresting judges!
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Democracy Reports – V-Dem
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“We were once indispensable. Now we’re just unpredictable. Economic power runs on trust. Trump has burned trust in America to the ground. Brexit slashed Britain’s growth. Trumpxit is now doing the same over here.” open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...
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TRUMPXIT: The Bell Tolls for Thee
We were once indispensable. Now we’re just unpredictable. Economic power runs on trust. Trump has burned trust in America to the ground. Brexit slashed Britain’s growth. Trumpxit is now doing the...
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Marina Gorbis @mgorbis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"Today, the wealthiest middle-aged and older adults in the U.S. have roughly the same likelihood of dying over a 12-year period as the poorest adults in northern and western Europe" Wealth inequality is a deterrent to health. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM
Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...
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