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MAGA's war on woke is centuries old

Trump and Stephen Miller don’t just want to erase the 20th century. Their dream is much bigger than that

Salon · Feb 8

Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit

My social media feed is now a hellish stream of puerile AI slop. Am I stubborn to want to hang on to reality?

The Guardian - AU · Nov 18, 2025

How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT

Some writers appear so accurate in their assessment of where society and technology is taking us that they have attracted the label “prophet”. Think of J. G. Ballard, Octavia E. Butler, Marshall McLuhan, or Donna Haraway.

The Conversation · Nov 4, 2025

Friday essay: George Orwell is everywhere, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the number of attendees at the president’s inauguration. When pressed on why Spicer would “utter a provable falsehood”, Conway said that Spicer was offering “alternative facts”.

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2022