Well I’ll be. Missed this in the deluge, as you do (slow, retrospective meticulosity). Sarah Ransome is the very intriguing & vocal South African Ghislaine/Epstein survivor (trafficked, raped, abused, threatened) who will be familiar to those acquainted with the saga (she appears in Netflix’s Filthy Rich, attended Maxwell’s trial, & has contributed to many news broadcasts on the subject as well as shouldering solidarity with the Epstein/Ghislaine survivors’ sisterhood).

“Open AI is now leading our acceleration towards this modern-day colonial world order” – Karen Hao

well I never … what an absolutely fantastic, startling & profusely enlightening exposé of hard-boiled & stoic investigative reporting at its finest.

riveting & brilliant, this fervently bold bombshell is delivered with a classic Rusky dispensation, terse, frank as fuck, cold fact & point-blank wryness with a habit of delicious deadpan humour.

“Privacy isn’t just about what people know about you” – “it’s about how that knowledge gives them control over you.” – Allesandro Acquisti

“Without solidarity, activism becomes difficult. Russia’s agenda was not to emphasize the differences between women and men any more than to incite women and men to quarrel with each other; instead, their efforts were directed at shredding women’s common goals by utilizing preexisting, legitimate causes fro criticism. The operation focused on three storylines: feminism is too white to advocate for Black women, feminism is too liberal to advocate for conservative women, and feminism is too affluent to advocate to poor women. All these topics are substantive; however, there is no chance of productive discussion if Russian military intelligence [the GRU & Glavset] and internet troll armies with fake chatbots and tweets on a scale possible only for state level actors.”

“Far-right activism takes many forms. There are sophisticated, educated and resourceful campaigners working towards ridding the country of anyone not considered white and British. I became close to well-funded, well-connected extremists who sought to widen the Overton Window – the range of ideas acceptable to the mainstream – to include race science and eugenics. Some of them enjoy the support of American tech tycoons and Conservative policymakers, work in the right-wing think tank scene and, in one case, write policy papers for downing street.”