Gabriel
@gabrielu.bsky.social
South American member of the educated middle-class, born in the closing decades of the last century.
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Gabriel
@gabrielu.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Possibly germane in the current context, something I wrote a few years ago about why the last Argentine dictatorship does not generate the degree of nostalgia one sees for its peers in Brazil or Chile
(tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite.)
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(tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite.)
cfalso.ghost.io/a-dead-gener...
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I shared this yesterday. But I want to repost @chrisbratt.bsky.social's investigation into the Rockstar union-busting allegations.
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
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November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I shared this yesterday. But I want to repost @chrisbratt.bsky.social's investigation into the Rockstar union-busting allegations.
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
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pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
88 Days: The Unraveling of Claudine Gay’s Harvard Presidency | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Jan. 2, ending her tenure as the University's 30th president after it was clear the Harvard Corporation lost confidence in Gay's ability to lead amid mountin...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
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every time i see this guy i will remember how he was kicked out of my friend’s rabbit owners groupchat for being a racist loser
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
every time i see this guy i will remember how he was kicked out of my friend’s rabbit owners groupchat for being a racist loser
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This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech
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your movement has to be like 8 levels removed from reality to think that some of the starving kids in gaza also having serious medical conditions makes Israel look better. it's completely insane. they just think because it's an additional fact it's somehow exonerating.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
your movement has to be like 8 levels removed from reality to think that some of the starving kids in gaza also having serious medical conditions makes Israel look better. it's completely insane. they just think because it's an additional fact it's somehow exonerating.
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The Washington Post, everyone!
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Washington Post, everyone!
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decades into this I remain a bit confused why so many Ivy league grads think the primary job of professor is to "referee classroom debates between students"
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
decades into this I remain a bit confused why so many Ivy league grads think the primary job of professor is to "referee classroom debates between students"
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Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).
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This is not the worst problem in the world but I’m going to loose my mind listening to Democratic candidates for office talk endlessly about affordability for the next 11 months and have fuck all to actually propose to do achieve it.
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This is not the worst problem in the world but I’m going to loose my mind listening to Democratic candidates for office talk endlessly about affordability for the next 11 months and have fuck all to actually propose to do achieve it.
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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storage.courtlistener.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Was trying to retrieve a link for an old personal essay of mine about being a juvenile offender and was given this completely fabricated AI explanation of my apparently large body of work on juvenile crime.
None of this is true!
None of this is true!
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Was trying to retrieve a link for an old personal essay of mine about being a juvenile offender and was given this completely fabricated AI explanation of my apparently large body of work on juvenile crime.
None of this is true!
None of this is true!
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Why grant anonymity to someone who is lying to you with the company line? This adds nothing but misinformation to the story and the person quoted isn't going to get in trouble for saying it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Why grant anonymity to someone who is lying to you with the company line? This adds nothing but misinformation to the story and the person quoted isn't going to get in trouble for saying it.
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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The federal government just dismissed charges against this woman who it had accused of deliberately attacking its agents and trying to kill them. Instead, it now appears they tried to murder her. Will Chicago or Illinois police prosecute?
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The federal government just dismissed charges against this woman who it had accused of deliberately attacking its agents and trying to kill them. Instead, it now appears they tried to murder her. Will Chicago or Illinois police prosecute?
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Lol
The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Lol
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Starmer literally supported the deadly chaotic Johnson plan the whole way, brushing off critics of Johnson's criminal mishandling as seeking 'opposition for opposition sake'. This ought to have been an early warning sign for credulous centrists of just how pathetic & disastrous he would be in power
Keir Starmer responds to damning Covid Inquiry report as huge failings unearthed
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer responds to damning Covid Inquiry report as huge failings unearthed
Keir Starmer has said the Government will 'carefully consider' the findings of Baroness Heather Hallett, who said Boris Johnson's dithering cost more than 20,000 lives
www.mirror.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Starmer literally supported the deadly chaotic Johnson plan the whole way, brushing off critics of Johnson's criminal mishandling as seeking 'opposition for opposition sake'. This ought to have been an early warning sign for credulous centrists of just how pathetic & disastrous he would be in power
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I'm sorry did I just have a fucking stroke?
Melanie Phillips? Matt Goodwin? Do people just not know how many of their colleagues are open racists??
Melanie Phillips? Matt Goodwin? Do people just not know how many of their colleagues are open racists??
This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I'm sorry did I just have a fucking stroke?
Melanie Phillips? Matt Goodwin? Do people just not know how many of their colleagues are open racists??
Melanie Phillips? Matt Goodwin? Do people just not know how many of their colleagues are open racists??
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"no ifs not buts"
Writing in the Daily Mail too
From memory Ctrl+F of the article turned up zero mentions of "safe", "safety", "ventilation" or "vaccine"
Writing in the Daily Mail too
From memory Ctrl+F of the article turned up zero mentions of "safe", "safety", "ventilation" or "vaccine"
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"no ifs not buts"
Writing in the Daily Mail too
From memory Ctrl+F of the article turned up zero mentions of "safe", "safety", "ventilation" or "vaccine"
Writing in the Daily Mail too
From memory Ctrl+F of the article turned up zero mentions of "safe", "safety", "ventilation" or "vaccine"
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this is who @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting have aligned the labour with
'gender critical' are not feminist. they are far right agitators in bed with the hertiage foundation. they've co-opted mainstream feminism in the uk to push deeply regressive roll backs on women's and queer rights
'gender critical' are not feminist. they are far right agitators in bed with the hertiage foundation. they've co-opted mainstream feminism in the uk to push deeply regressive roll backs on women's and queer rights
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
this is who @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting have aligned the labour with
'gender critical' are not feminist. they are far right agitators in bed with the hertiage foundation. they've co-opted mainstream feminism in the uk to push deeply regressive roll backs on women's and queer rights
'gender critical' are not feminist. they are far right agitators in bed with the hertiage foundation. they've co-opted mainstream feminism in the uk to push deeply regressive roll backs on women's and queer rights
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"Others say these anxieties amount to scaremongering from those who do not agree with the judgment of the supreme court."
LOL This looks like it has been added by an editor somewhere along the line, including in the subhead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
LOL This looks like it has been added by an editor somewhere along the line, including in the subhead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Others say these anxieties amount to scaremongering from those who do not agree with the judgment of the supreme court."
LOL This looks like it has been added by an editor somewhere along the line, including in the subhead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
LOL This looks like it has been added by an editor somewhere along the line, including in the subhead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
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It remains very fun that the guy from the O.C. and Gotham became one of the biggest and most clearly spoken critics of crypto and is just chilling in the replies dropping the same gifs we would
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It remains very fun that the guy from the O.C. and Gotham became one of the biggest and most clearly spoken critics of crypto and is just chilling in the replies dropping the same gifs we would
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Nice to see @jamellebouie.net recommending @rauchway.bsky.social’s excellent short book, “Why the New Deal Matters”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tr...
Why the New Deal Matters
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Nice to see @jamellebouie.net recommending @rauchway.bsky.social’s excellent short book, “Why the New Deal Matters”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tr...