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Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored
By Jill Lepore

Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology

#Technology #Internet #Computing #SiliconValley #Worldnews #Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #TheGuardian #JillLepore

Historian #JillLepore, in her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” argues that #bigtech is replacing #democraticgovernment functions, leading to a return to #tyranny. She contends that this shift, driven by private corporations, undermines #democracy and #equalrights. Lepore traces the rise of this #artificialstate through #sciencefiction and explores alternative paths that were not taken. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state-jill-lepore-silicon-valley-sci-fi/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KZTVRVG5TJBPHDRDVZ8N160J&_kx=xUYuEyKLvfzMmBaejgRY9T66ygHozgEpktNNW_FHWQc.U5D8ER
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TechCrunch: Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy. “In her upcoming book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,’ Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks ‘a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, […]

"…the #ArtificialState has come at the expense of the #naturalworld, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and #biodiversity.

#BestBooks of August: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads

“ #JillLepore is our best scholar of the culture of #governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of #AI as a replacement for #democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.”

— #JaronLanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324098423/about-the-book

Literary Hub » A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?
https://lithub.com/a-constitutional-question-do-american-presidents-have-the-power-to-declare-war/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KWEXQ366EXMSVJYMZGTRWCWK&_kx=xUYuEyKLvfzMmBaejgRY9T66ygHozgEpktNNW_FHWQc.U5D8ER
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#JillLepore : »Es ist wie ein ewiger Ringkampf« | #DIEZEIT #usa
https://www.zeit.de/2026/28/jill-lepore-usa-geschichte-demokratie-liberale-donald-trump

Winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners for journalism, criticism, photography, drama, music, and books. 
The post Winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes Announced appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/winners-of-the-2026-pulitzer-prizes-announced/

#AmandaVaill #Awards #BrianGladstone #DanielKraus #JillLepore

American Historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore to Open FBM 2026

Today, Frankfurter Buchmesse announced that the prominent U.S. historian and writer for The New Yorker will be the Opening Press Conference speaker at this fall's book fair. 
The post American Historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore to Open FBM 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/03/american-historian-and-new-yorker-writer-jill-lepore-to-open-fbm-2026/

#CHBeck #FrankfurterBuchmesse #JillLepore #Liveright

📚 US-Historikerin Jill Lepore hält Hegel Lecture 2026

Am 12. Februar 2026 spricht #JillLepore, renommierte Historikerin und Journalistin (#Harvard, @NewYorker ) an der #FUBerlin über „The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State“.

Was treibt Gesellschaften dazu, Demokratie durch automatisierte Regierungsformen zu ersetzen? Und warum ist der „Artificial State“ historisch zum Scheitern verurteilt?

Die #HegelLecture ist öffentlich.

Anmeldung bis 8. Februar möglich unter ➡️ https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/programme/termine/2026-02-12_Hegel-Lecture-Lepore.html

—> #TheDailyShow ⦁ #JonStewart <— #JillLepore Harvard Law Professor & Staff-Writer #TheNewYorker “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution” #DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/8LkX8lj8SWQ

Jill Lepore - “We the People” ...

—> #TheDailyShow ⦁ #JonStewart <—

#JillLepore Harvard Law Professor & Staff-Writer at #TheNewYorker

Discuss her Book “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution”

#DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/8LkX8lj8SWQ

The [14th} amendment’s authors, they argue, “hoped not only to prevent a resurgence of secessionism but also to protect future generations against insurrectionism.” It was intended “to bar anyone who has betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution from becoming President of the United States.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/04/trump-ballot-disqualified-14th-amendment/ (gifted)

#Historians
#JillLepore
#DrewGilpinFaust
#SherilynnIfill
#DavidBlight

Good pod with noted historian & Harvard prof #JillLepore this week on Preet's show

She talks about Jefferson Davis and how not prosecuting him & others set the stage for today.

And how the 14th Amendment Section 3 - the disqualification after insurrection stuff - was written by people explicitly worried that Jefferson Davis would "run for president again", so yes it quite clearly IS ABOUT THIS EXACT THING

https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/amending-history-with-jill-lepore/

Why I love Jill Lepore:

“Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. It’s participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold.”

#JillLepore #Twitter #Musk #SocialMedia

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review

Eat dirt, users of #facebook and #twitter. Historian Jill Lepore of Harvard fame is not on Facebook or Twitter and says: “I think the social networks will be looked on as having been fairly catastrophic.” #histodons #JillLepore #FutureMediaHistory #MediaHistory #Historiography #FutureHistory

#Krononauts from 1982 in Baltimore MD US (our group) mentioned 4 decades later in season 4 of leading podcast "The Last Archive" by Ben Naddaff-Hafrey and #JillLepore. The podcast examines modern history and truth, and in this episode, a landing party for #TimeTravelers (aka, a #KrononautMoon #celebration).

This is a 2-minute audio teaser for the podcast coming out any day now.
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7trRUXTptZr7zhJH0vdIEF
🔗 https://theLastArchive.com/season-4
🔗 https://theLastArchive.com
#TimeTravel #Time & #Timelessness ◯ ∘ ⋅

If we can't amend the Constitution, do we even have one? No paywall on this excellent article from #JillLepore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/constitutional-amendments-american-history.html?unlocked_article_code=gh3qm73PSGsglTRNqZ11ouBQ66j2OngiTnVMcpvYufgmQwXRWaOPRTRAEGG_zgUmCijdyeH50WziYX_IA3UbMmB5V8I24n5rZ40XfDecKe1s3g1YQfd7ou8Wi8NX9ui-uYEvILG3fs6tpiY9nM_e0OBqRPKGhoGlTVa3WGBCJv_qzeHAhykeuZRW6EviakpJHboXw2fc8SzbM9zWsleT9OJ9LKIYT9byNwzItKVdI77TAj1elpxG78tzM62q_vk1BGMeswJ2lR5DDuX1pIbujG8F5z2ZGd-G3Sl9od-crjuwlXeCTLVKkg72_PyLK9fTkfpTEBla9NMZRffLqkiHpbhdr-CHX1EkCXG3c7LJ6Z93yJG0&smid=url-share

Vanaf vandaag in onze boekhandels: Jill Lepores New York in brand. Vrijheid, slavernij en samenzwering in achttiende-eeuws Manhattan (vertaling Frank Lekens en Rob Kuitenbrouwer). 20 april komt ze naar De Duif (John Adams Institute). Kom ook, en lees nu vast een fragment! https://www.athenaeum.nl/leesfragmenten/2023/new-york-in-brand

#jilllepore #newyork #geschiedenis

This is really worth a listen.

How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

https://www.cityarts.net/event/jill-lepore-2/

#JillLepore #Simulmatics #PsychologicalWarfare #Privacy #Surveillance #Manipulation

via @dredmorbius

Jill Lepore on the link between WWII Psychological Warfare and Mass Communications

A lot of [psychologists] worked both in the study of voting behaviour in the US and in the study of propaganda in third-world countries trying to prevent them from becomming Communist.
Those things are closely related. They’re both the study of how you get inside someone’s head and change their mind? You have to know what they’re thinking, what you want them to think, and then you have to figure out what message will move them from what they’re thinking now to what you want them to think. This used to be called “psychological warfare”, and after the 2nd World War people were like, we shouldn’t call it that any more, we’ll call it “the study of mass communications”.

-- Jill Lepore, 2020

https://www.cityarts.net/event/jill-lepore-2/

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/178/a3550bf0-cb21-4ad6-b0f1-9cf1ec316a6f/CityArtsJillLepore200927a.mp3 (MP3)

Transcription by me, edited lightly for clarity / continuity.

#JillLepore #Simulmatics #SimulmaticsCorporation #Psywar #PsychologicalWarfare #MassCommunications #MassMedia #AdTech #Facebook #Google #SiliconValley #Privacy #Surveillance #Propaganda #Manipulation #Monopoly