That’s interesting, as that would be the arrow I feel most confidently about. EA grew pretty explicitly out of Singer’s Giving Pledge and Giving What We Can book, and Will MacAskill’s (his student) networking with finance and tech bros. (That isn’t to say the tech bros weren’t just exploiting the idea for their own benefit.)

The rest of the arrows, I agree, it seems plausible to me but I have no hard evidence

I’m an idiot. Thank you!

I checked this article and the NBC one linked in the NY Post article, and they didn’t name the insurer? What the fuck are they holding water for this shitty company for?

Ok that’s good to know! Thanks!

My understanding (happy to be corrected) is that archive.ph is an archive.today mirror https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-today-started-including-malicious-ddos-code-on-its-site-what-should-we

Thank you, changed to upvote

I don’t trust archive.ph for security reasons. Can you just correct the original link? If not, no worries. I only commented to explain why I downvoted.

Link doesn’t work?

Not the main point at all of this article, but: “The price tag was also massive: the United Nations estimated that $33 billion would be needed to complete the Wall.” Still less than the US spent on the Iran War in less than a month.

Israel is almost certainly involved in this - either through pure fabrication, “opposition research”/digging up dirt, or some combination. But its also true that powerful men do shit like this all the time, and it isn’t automatically made up because it is someone we are ‘rooting for’. I feel like this is all the more reason why these prosecution teams need to be spread over several people, both so that if/when someone actually does do something shitty, or when someone is framed for doing something shitty, they can step aside with no delay or questions raised about the prosecution.

That being said, even if these accusations were/are true, what difference does that make to prosecuting Benjamin Netanyahu? They’re completely unrelated. It’s like saying labor unions are bad because Cesar Chavez was a rapist. Whataboutism.

Not working for me either.

Aww man now I feel bad, I was just trying to poke some fun at sociology, but y’all are out for blood!

I think a “stalemate” is more likely than you suspect - the Iranian and Israeli regimes both benefit from having the other one to demonize. I suppose regime change is the ideal goal, but even just more war to galvanize support around Netanyahu in an election year in Israel is a win for him.

Antisemitism is a manifestation of the logic of domination and is thus fundamentally incompatible with anarchism.

Actually I think this comment unintentionally answers OP’s question.

I think a common tankie story is:

1. Realization that much of western media is propaganda or influenced by propaganda.

2. Finding that enemies of the American empire (and Europe) with some semblance of power agree that western media is propaganda, and these people are MLM communists.

3. After they’ve established credibility with their accurate criticisms of western capitalist society, tell you that, oh, by the way, those propaganda outlets in the west also lie about us, actually almost all of what we do is awesome and people who claim otherwise are automatically suspect.

Number 3 is a mistake, I think, but it’s an understandable one. This isn’t super fair to tankies but the analogy I’d give is to people who fall under the spell of someone like Jordan Peterson: he sounds smart, and he lulls you into a sense of security with good advice about taking care of yourself, keeping your house clean, etc., and then once he’s gotten your trust he gently introduces stuff like “oh by the way evolution proves that men and women shouldn’t work together” or whatever, and because he’s made sensible points up until then, your guard is down and you don’t critique it in your head before accepting it.

https://reason.com/2025/12/26/here-are-5-wars-trump-started-or-expanded-in-2025/

I just want to say that I love Devils Panties. I love that it is like half the time political and half the time not. I don’t really know why, I just like that every day you don’t know quite what to expect, but it is pretty consistently good.

It looks like the Wayback Machine archive of the original article is down now too, presumably at the request of The Daily Beast… :(

I got you rosahaj! I’ll try to be better this year!

I’m not sure why the current map doesn’t show them, but no, the stations are not gone. I ride the Amtrak from Chicago far out west quite often, it still stops in all of the places that the old map says.