Metadata Author: Acta Publica Full Title : Rapport 2024:4 - Kidnapparna Document Note : Människorov är ett mycket grovt och allvarligt brott som utsätter såväl offer som samhälle för enorma påfrestningar. Men lite har varit känt om det som i dagligt tal kallas kidnappningar. Acta Publica har nu kartlagt kidnappningarnas utveckling sedan 2015 via samtliga fällande tingsrättsdomar om människorov,…
I prefer to use Waterfox on desktop and IronFox on Android. On macOS, I use Orion . Both of those are Firefox forks, designed with privacy in mind. In other words, unlike Firefox, these versions of Firefox do not track users and have implemented security features to help people. I'm keeping an eye on web browsers that are not built on Firefox because Mozilla Foundation, that create Firefox, are…
I love to use Obsidian . I've used Obsidian for years on multiple computers and mobile phones. It's free to use. Obsidian is not only my favourite digital knowledge system but what I use to make and publish this digital garden. Obsidian is software that can be very simple or very complex: it's what you make of it. To begin with, Obsidian is a place where you store information. The data is, to…
The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949 [!info] Because I lack time to update the list below, please instead see my Tidö-party related news collection which is updated fairly often. What is this? The Tidö parties are political parties that are both part of the Swedish political parties in government…
[!info] This is the Wikipedia article on RSS. I've highlighted notable sections in red. I believe the Wikipedia article to be highly edited by RSS-positive persons, as with most Wikipedia articles about political and extreme right-wing political parties. I recommend to read Arundhati Roy - India, On the Road to Theocracy for a recent and realistic view of the current political state of India, RSS,…
[!info] This is a shortened version of the Wikipedia article on Hindutva, copied on 2024-10-23. I've annotated sections that I find important in pink colour . I recommend to read Arundhati Roy - India, On the Road to Theocracy for a recent and realistic view of the current political state of India, RSS, Hindutva, and Narendra Modi control. Hindutva ( /hɪnˈdʊtvə/ lit. 'Hindu-ness') is a political…
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-ilan-pappe Here, Chris Hedges and Ilan Pappé speak about the Israel-Palestine conflict . Chris Hedges : “Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism,” warned Leibowitz, who died in 1994. He understood that the blind veneration of the military, especially after the 1967 war that captured the West Bank…
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-reporter-b17 Chris Hedges : The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel's drones, surveillance technology, including spyware, facial recognition software, and biometric gathering infrastructure along with smart fences, experimental bombs, AI…
The following is a transcription from Chris Hedges 's podcast, The Chris Hedges Report . The episode is found in video form right here: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-show-with-33b Information on trucks that were circling the campuses of Columbia University and Harvard University. They publicly list the names and show the faces of students who signed a letter calling on…
BBC Radio show . Has gone on forever. Episode Humanism - what is it good for - 2023-03-20
Introduction From the Start the Week programme episode page : Yuval Noah Harari ’s best-selling Sapiens explored human’s extraordinary progress alongside the capacity to spin stories. In Nexus he focuses on how those stories have been shared and manipulated, and how the flow of information has made, and unmade, our world. With examples from the ancient world, to contemporary democracies and…
Intro Some of these podcasts are ancient. Some are likely gone. Some of these are only in Swedish. Some I listen to for very specific reasons. podcast list 80 Väldigt Goda Mackor Podcast Website • Feed A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Website • Feed ALL NEW FONEJACKER PODCAST Website • Feed AlternativeRadio Website • Feed Amie & Fanna Website • Feed Behind the Bastards Website • Feed Better…
https://www.podcasts.com/noam-chomsky-af65d89bb Kagi summary: Noam Chomsky evaluates how the American power structure and mass media manufacture consent in a democratic society through techniques of indoctrination and public relations. Early 20th century intellectuals like Reinhold Niebuhr believed the average person follows faith over reason and requires "necessary illusion" provided by…
This is an episode of The Penguin Podcast with Isy Sutie and Sarah Bakewell . It was released on 2023-03-22. Sarah Bakewell Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie Episode metadata Episode title:: Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie Show:: The Penguin Podcast --- Created with Snipd  | Highlight & Take Notes from Podcasts Owner / Host:: Penguin Books UK Episode link:: open in Snipd Episode publish date::…
From Tortoise Media, episode 4 of Elon's Spies , I've annotated parts that I think are especially important in green colour: Alexi Mostrous: It's the evening of Tuesday, the 5th of November. Millions of Americans have voted in the US presidential election and Donald Trump is awaiting the result. He's assembled a select group of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. It's the inner circle,…
Ed Zitron has written a very lucid and sobering post of what he calls 'the business idiot', mainly a mid-level manager who's adept at bullshit , not working, and flailing with artificial intelligence as one of their main weapons. What follows are highlights I've made while listening to his three-part podcast series on the business idiot, released in June 2025. The episodes are available to hear…
This podcast episode by Ed Zitron is very soberly told on artificial intelligence . The episode was published early in December of 2024 and it can be found on YouTube and as an article, Godot Isn't Making It . Here are some of my favourite quotes, with kind permission from Ed: Generative AI is incredibly unprofitable. OpenAI, the biggest player in the industry, is on course to lose more than $5…
This is a transcript from a Behind the Bastards podcast episode named Tech bros have built a cult around AI, part 2 , the first of a two-part series. I've annotated the bits that I found the most important in green highlighter . See artificial intelligence . SPEAKER_02: So perhaps the most amusing part of all of this is that a segment of the AI-believing community has created not just a potential…
This is a transcript from a Behind the Bastards podcast episode named Tech bros have built a cult around AI, part 1 , the first of a two-part series. I've annotated the bits that I found the most important in green highlighter . See artificial intelligence . Robert Evans, the show host, has written a wondrous article about the matter [1] . SPEAKER_02: [...] today we're here to talk about AI. And…
This is a transcript from a Behind the Bastards podcast episode named Tech bros have built a cult around AI, part 1 , the first of a two-part series. I've annotated the bits that I found the most important in green highlighter . See artificial intelligence . Robert Evans, the show host, has written a wondrous article about the matter[^1]. SPEAKER_02: [...] today we're here to talk about AI. And…
Recorded in the middle of November 2023, Norman Solomon speaks about North American militarism and also the Israel-Palestine conflict , among other topics. https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/soln008/ Norman Solomon Norman Solomon is a political commentator and media critic. The National Council of Teachers of English honored him with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to…
The United States & Israel was recorded when Noam Chomsky spoke in UCLA in 2011 about the Israel-Palestine conflict and how it relates to the USA. Please buy the podcast episode . Few issues are more freighted than the U.S.-Israel relationship. Overwhelmingly, Democrats and Republicans give Israel “unwavering” support. Internationally, it’s a different story. Opposition to the U.S.-Israel alliance…
The end of poverty will require new policies, it will require new movements for sure. I want to end poverty in America. Why settle for anything less? Like why accept the boring, pernicious, best-week-and-doism that has gripped the American imagination in recent years? That's Matthew Desmond. This is Alternative Radio . I'm David Barsamian . This edition of AR features Matthew Desmond ending…
This is a speech by Ilan Pappé recorded at Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, mid-May in 2024. The speech is available via Alternative Radio as Gaza in Context . Ilan Pappé is one of the foremost scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict . From Alternative Radio and their radio broadcast: Gaza’s 2 million plus Palestinians are jam-packed in a small narrow enclave bordered by…
https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/hedc021/ The death toll of Palestinians in Gaza will soon surpass 20,000 with many more wounded [1] . The UN says Gaza is “a graveyard for children [2] .” The history of the Israeli-Palestinian war did not begin on October 7. While the atrocities of that day cannot and should not be excused, they have to be located in the context of decades of Israeli…
Chris Hedges on the Israel-Palestine conflict . This episode was broadcast by Alternative Radio on 2024-02-29. https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/hedc022/ David Barsamian : The Biden presidency, which ironically may have signed its own political death certificate, is tethered to Israel's genocide. It insists it is trying to halt what's by its own admission is Israel's indiscriminate bombing…
From Alternative Radio , Arundhati Roy speaks about the current state in India . This speech, On the Road to Theocracy , was recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, on 2023-03-22. Arundhati Roy : India's democracies being systematically disassembled in 2014 Modi was elected Prime Minister of India. In the nine years since, India has changed beyond recognition. The secular socialist republic mandated by the…
The podcast episode that is transcribed below is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International : Cohn, Cindy, Amy Tang, and Jason Kelley. “Podcast Episode: Open Source Beats Authoritarianism.” Electronic Frontier Foundation . Last modified February 27, 2024. Accessed September 20, 2024. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism . All…
Yuval Noah Harari is a famous author and grifter [1] . He is reminiscent to Jordan B. Peterson and Malcolm Gladwell . From Darshana Narayanan's aforementioned brilliant article: This may be surprising, but the factual validity of Yuval Harari’s work has received little evaluation from scholars or major publications. Harari’s own thesis advisor, Professor Steven Gunn from Oxford—who guided Harari’s…
Albini performs at ATP festival in 2007. Photo by Shannon McClean You know, if you're in love with somebody, you just don't love the nice things about them. You think their morning breath is amazing, you know. --Steve Albini [1] Steve Albini was an astonishing person. About him, I recently read an article that started 'Steve Albini doesn't need an introduction, he needs an index.' I mean, not only…
My favourite living author who's written some of my favourite books: How to Live: A Life of Montaigne At the Existentialist Café Humanly Possible: 700 years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope Has appeared in Start the Week a few times. On 2023-03-20, she starred in the Humanism - what is it good for - 2023-03-20 episode. A review of the book, published on 2023-05-17, is Humanism Is a…
By Σ, retouched by Wugapodes - File:Noam_Chomsky_portrait_2017.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85616571 Noam Chomsky is one of my favourite persons on Earth. If you don't know Chomsky, I suggest that you either start with a book, either Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media , written together with Edward S. Herman and Chomsky, or Global…
By Library of Congress Life - 20230812SM0720 , CC0 , Link From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Desmond): Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University , where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. [2|2] [3|3] Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. [4|4] He was formerly the…
Malcolm Gladwell is a famous author and grifter. Here's a couple of takes on two of Gladwell's books. The Bomber Mafia From Brian Castner's review [1] of one of Gladwell's books, The Bomber Mafia : My first encounter with him was Outliers, which in classic Gladwell fashion promises to explain sociological events with a surprising counter-intuitive twist. Why are rich New York corporate take-over…
From Wikipedia: Ilan Pappé ( Hebrew : אילן פפה, pronounced [iˈlan paˈpe|iˈlan paˈpe] ; born 7 November 1954) is an Israeli historian , political scientist and former politician . He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the…
Gary Marcus is a psychologist and cognitive scientist. I read his newsletter (via RSS, not via Substack) about artificial intelligence . I think Marcus is often spot on where it comes to AI analysis.
[!info] Because I lack time to update the list below, please instead see my Elon Musk news collection , where I'm constantly adding Elon Musk-related news. In other words, the list below is not updated often. There is one point that springs to the top of my mind when people ask me why I don't like Elon Musk. From The UN tells Elon Musk how his money could end world hunger : The Tesla founder has…
[!info] Because I lack time to update the list below, please instead see my Donald Trump news collection , where I'm constantly adding Elon Musk-related news. In other words, the list below is not updated often.
David Berman was a musician, poet, artist, and wondrous human being. He's most well known for making music even though his He founded Silver Jews and Purple Mountains . He wrote poetry, music, lyrics, and even wrote for film and TV. He wrote a very interesting blog, Menthol Mountains . His poetry book, Actual Air , is beautiful. He drew images in a book named The Portable February . Mentions The…
One of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio—38 years and running— and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His latest books are Culture and Resistance, Retargeting Iran,…
The following short quote is written by Chris Hedges, taken from his podcast episode named The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. Gabor Maté on his new book “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." I quote Hedges's short paragraph because of how succinctly he nails how capitalism works, how it thrives, and whom it rewards. I've separated the quote into paragraphs to…
My photograph of Bodil while signing books at Akademibokhandeln in Stockholm. Copyright belongs to me, so don't you dare snatch this pic, you loafing oaf. Bodil Malmsten is one of my favourite Swedish writers, perhaps the favourite Swedish one. She wrote along the lines of Michel de Montaigne and Thomas Bernhard , longing for the real, never settling for the bad. Her immediate, non-apologetic,…
Arundhati Roy is a world-renowned award-winning writer and global justice activist. Tariq Ali says of her she “is both loathed and feared by the Indian elite. Loathed because she speaks her mind. Feared because her voice reaches the world outside India and damages the myths perpetrated by New Delhi.” Among her many books are My Seditious Heart and Azadi . Her latest book is The Architecture of…
Andreas Cervenka i Kungsträdgården i Stockholm den 22 maj 2013 i samband med en kampanj för Barncancerfonden. By Frankie Fouganthin - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26981957 Andreas Cervenka is a remarkable human being. He's an economics journalist who's part poet, whistleblower, straightforward reporter, funnyman, and singular writer. Bodil Malmsten…
Acta Publica are one of the most interesting modern research organisations in Sweden. They often release reports that are related to crime. From their site: https://actapublica.se/om-oss/ Om Acta Publica Acta Publica är registrerad bifirma till Panoptes Sweden AB org nr 559199-4503. Panoptes ägs av grundarna och står fritt från institutionella, ideologiska och religiösa intressen. Bolaget är…
[!NOTE] Idiot disclaimer I feel like an idiot for saying this, but this is an ever-changing and ever-growing list. The more artists I hear, the more I love. There's a lot of music that I love . This list is not in any order. Go fucking wild. I was about to start waffling about why I love some artists. I'll likely create pages for more of them. Bands/inviduals Can Public Enemy Xiu Xiu The Smiths…
[!NOTE] I advise you to also check out music-buying platforms . To buy is to own music. Music that can be bought fairly can be downloaded. This music should preferably not be copy-protected, meaning that I think the person who's bought the music should be able to listen to it without applying third-party apps/stuff. If you'd like to find a place that sells music that you like to stream, check out…
This is a list of online platforms that allow you to buy music. I like to focus on buying music from places where a) musicians get the maximum amount of money and b) the owners of a platform aren't scum. Several of the platforms that are listed here are either co-ops or decentralised, both of which are two very nice ways to go, instead of creating the infernal mayhem that is Spotify . Quboz Quboz…
There's a lot of music that I love. I do mean love . I've listed my favourite music artists . As I grow older I find that I like more music than ever. In my young years I fucking hated jazz. I hated it. Then I realised a lot of shit that I listened to was or could be jazz. For example, try listening to Primal Scream's ' If They Move Kill 'Em ', as remixed by Kevin Shields (who's the main person…
There's always been a bunch of problems where music meets money. Steve Albini has beautifully told the tale [1] . Courtney Love, too [2] . Payola [3] set some of it off in the 1940s, and it just got worse as Spotify and their cohorts came along. My main problem with capitalist companies like Spotify is that they will always put the profits of company shareholders over the interests of the people…