• Why you're so tired — Johnny Harris

Finally, an explanation that makes sense.

More great videos from Johnny Harris:

• Why the US spend so much on its military

• The secret Trump investigation nobody is talking about

The latter one speaks of a potential contribution to Trump's 2016 election campaign from Egypt. Clearly shady practice, but it makes it sound like this sort of thing isn't common practice in America when we all know Israel has had its meddling hands all over many facets of American politics in more ways than one, not least of which is AIPAC contributions. What this says is that it is only okay for foreign countries to legally influence American politics if they up some kind of NGO or think-tank within the United States through which to funnel their bribes.

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The democrats won't save you if you're drowning They won't help you if you are in pain They'll ask you for your vote They'll tell you they are broke Then send a lot of money to Ukraine (And also Israel!) Republicans will obviously kill you But at least you know where they are at They'll shoot you in the head Make sure that you are dead The Democrats will shoot you in the back (And also in the balls!) But this is the best democracy We've ever had anywhere (If you're a billionaire boys, if you're a billionaire)

From THE DEMOCRATS by Carsie Blanton.

Paying attention to American news, you wouldn't know this kind of brilliance was being produced by the culture. And there's more of it, a lot more.

• WAR ISN'T MURDER by Jesse Welles

• THE BONK SONG by No$hu

• APOCALYPTIC FOLK SONG by Rett Madison

• RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND by Oliver Anthony

I'm building a playlist on Spotify called RESIST! Recommendations welcome.

#radar #music

I'm just going to leave these here.

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The epic that is THE SOLAR GRID—the project I've been working on for the better part of the past 9 years—is now 91% complete.

Entering into hyperfocus mode to push through the remaining 9%.

I'm hardly ever on social media, but this reel about Chinese filmmaker Gao Xiaosong's time in an Israeli Kibbutz is too funny.

#work #comix #tsg #radar

You know things are messed up when the person responsible for the monitoring and censorship of anti-genocidal material posted across Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp), a userbase of almost 4 billion people worldwide, is Jordana Cutler, a person who once worked as a strategy advisor in Netanyahu's 2009 election campaign and later as his Advisor for Diaspora Affairs.

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• Egypt Sends Somalia Military Aid: Looks like Egypt has found the perfect pretext to enter into military conflict with Ethiopia, in actuality over Nile water disputes which have been brewing for some time.

This wouldn't be the first time Egypt enters into military conflict with Ethiopia. An attempt to annex Ethiopia was made by Egypt in 1874, which really didn't go very well for Egypt.

Things may get messy because Ethiopia has some sort of military agreement with Turkiye and an arms deal with Israel in addition to a major mining deal too.

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• I'm sick of both U.S. presidential candidates popping up on my screen several times a day to ask for money. Is there any other place on Earth where rich politicians not only expect your vote, but have the gall to ask you to pay for it too?

• Mangal-Media: Istanbul-based micropress with great looking books.

• Matt Alt argues that the TV series Shogun's appeal in America is because” our socio-politically fractured era resembles a culture-war version of Japan's era of warring states.”

• Anne Carson: Life is Not Fair – The Louisiana Channel

• Stuck: Dana Omar is only $3,200 away from reaching her pilot's production goal, and only a few hours to go until her campaign ends.

• Matt Madden on discovering Oulipo.

• Right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation – Or, Russia utilizes America's capitalist tendances against itself.

• Bye bye, Allbirds.

• USPS is rolling out their own fleet of electric trucks apparently.

• Free Faces: Free open-source typefaces.

• Rain Poems-Ottmar Liebert: Beautiful acoustic guitar instrumentals.

• Alleged fraudster got $10 million in royalties using bots to stream AI-generated music that he uploaded.

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Genuinely surprised there isn't more reporting on Israel remotely detonating handheld devices across Lebanon, and how news of this is not seeping into tech news. This takes the notion of weaponizing handheld devices against its users to a whole new level. Truly terrifying, and we're only seeing the very early stages of its implementation.

Image via Newsmap.

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Not quite a collection of short fiction as much as it presents blueprints for approaching fiction, often very grand, interestingly-structured fiction. The reviews of fictitious non-existent books are my favorite in the collection, but there are only a handful of those, and the rest is mostly pretty straight fiction which I didn't get much out of. Not that I didn't like them... Full review of Borges' FICTIONS over at Ganzeer.Reviews.

Day lost to migraine. Will attempt to turn in early tonight and get a fresh start tomorrow.

In other news:

• Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm to Mine Its Massive Film and TV Library — The Hollywood Reporter: A new age of schlock is upon us.

• Society of the Psyop — E-Flux: Wherever there's the smoke of a conspiracy theory, you better believe there's fire.

• Michael Chabon on Israel's latest attack on Lebanon:

#reads #journal #radar