May 18, 2022
SPECIAL DELIVERY: About a month back the Biden Administration launched the Orwellian “Disinformation Board,” ostensibly to combat Russian propaganda. But we all know this song — and it’s a bad song. After two years of increasingly-normalized political censorship, federalization of truth arbitration alarmed every sane person in the country (along with all the crazies). Fury was immediate, and profound. The Ministry of Truth has since collapsed, Nina Jankowicz, the would-be TikTok-star-turned-Chief-Censor has resigned, and the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz has once again made herself part of the story.
I hit up Santi Ruiz for details on Jankowicz, and a look at the bizarre parallels between subject and reporter in this ongoing bleed between the worlds of press, government, and technology.
-Solana
sydney sweeney has once again triggered the internet by showing off her curves in an ad. on the hypocrisy of these new critics, and why sweeney’s are the boobs america just can’t quit
a new novel imagines a world where we authorize american pirates to shoot down illegal chinese spy ships. here’s our review.
pirate wires #163 // palmer luckey vs. paul graham on american labor, unpacking the h-1b visa, and how tech stumbled into the red hot center of america’s battle over immigration