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Todd Haynes and Wallace Shawn among signatories of letter backing Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism charge https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/01/jewish-artist-support-mark-ruffalo-antisemitism #MarkRuffalo #Film #ParamountPictures #Culture #UsNews #ToddHaynes #WallaceShawn #WorldNews #WarnerBros #NaomiKlein #Oracle #MediaBusiness #FilmIndustry

Todd Haynes and Wallace Shawn among signatories of letter backing Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism charge
By Adrian Horton

More than 170 Jewish artists, also including Joel Coen, Hannah Einbinder and Miranda July, have supported the actor after he criticized Paramount

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/01/jewish-artist-support-mark-ruffalo-antisemitism

#MarkRuffalo #Film #ParamountPictures #Culture #USnews #ToddHaynes #WallaceShawn #Worldnews #WarnerBros #NaomiKlein #Oracle #Mediabusiness #Filmindustry #TheGuardian #AdrianHorton

This was an interesting discussion. I enjoyed #NaomiKlein book #Doppelgänger and the discussion of the far right and the move of some from yoga fan to vaccine skeptic (or worse). For "influencers" it seems to be about where to make the most money:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-naomi-klein.html

Link has video and audio and also available wherever you get your #podcasts

#EzraLevin #xp

#NaomiKlein on #Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-naomi-klein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.F2f6.2-NayTObdyEi&smid=url-share
#USpol #USpolitics #farRight #altRight #conspiracism #Doppelgänger #books @bookstodon

What are your favorite books or authors? #thefirethesetimes is named after #jamesbaldwin 'The Fire Next Time', so James Baldwin. I'm also a big fan of #bellhooks #OctaviaButler #adriennemareebrown, #ursulakleguin A recent favorite nonfiction book of mine is #naomiklein 's Doppleganger and, in terms of fiction, I'm currently reading and enjoying #sinanantoon 's The Book of Collateral Damage. 16/?

... think about the purpose the utopian hallucinations about AI are serving. What work are these benevolent stories doing in the culture as we encounter these strange new tools? Here is one hypothesis: they are the powerful and enticing cover stories for what may turn out to be the largest and most consequential theft in human history. Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history ( #Microsoft, #Apple, #Google, #Meta, #Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.
This should not be legal...