# oligarchy (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover oligarchy. Page: Feed: --- ## [JP Morgan predicts a global food crisis while US continues to experience an all time high of farm bankruptcies.](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/jp-morgan-predicts-a-global-food) _2026-08-18 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ The time to create alternative food systems.... ## [American Oligarchs or the Chinese Communist Party](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-08-17-american-oligarchs-or-the-chinese-communist-party/) _2026-08-17 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ In China, the pecking order is clearer. A founder who flies too high is grounded; a platform that forces monopolizing behavior and mistreats its workers gets punished; when the government rolls out “common prosperity,” tech companies rush to pledge in public. AI doomerism, and opposition to data centres, are usually manifestations of the fear of \[…\] The post American Oligarchs or the Chinese… ## [The food system is under attack and has been for a long time.](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/the-food-system-is-under-attack-and) _2026-08-17 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ Creating a strong local food system is far better than implementing AI as the solution. ## [Gonzo Caesarism & the Ghosts of August](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/gonzo-caesarism-and-the-ghosts-of) _2026-08-14 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ Congress Must Act. ## [It’s your work product](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-08-13-its-your-work-product/) _2026-08-13 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ I don’t care if you wrote something with Claude, ChatGPT or Ouija Board: it’s your work product. Comport yourself accordingly, and don’t waste my time. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text. The post It’s your work product appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [Darkness is losing its war with the light](https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/darkness-is-losing-its-war-with-the-light/) _2026-08-13 · Simon Allison · Coda Story_ Nothing on Earth is as sure as night following day. An American tech start-up with military backing wants to change that. Not everyone thinks a brighter future is such a good idea. The post Darkness is losing its war with the light appeared first on Coda Story . ## [How rewilding your lawn fucks with the system....](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/how-rewilding-your-lawn-fucks-with) _2026-08-10 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ The decisions we make today can build something better.... ## [The manufactured crisis of Ceuta](https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-manufactured-crisis-of-ceuta/) _2026-08-10 · Irina Matchavariani · Coda Story_ Rumors and disinformation spread through social media and an attempt to twist the narrative for political ends are at the heart of Europe’s panic about migration and sovereignty. The post The manufactured crisis of Ceuta appeared first on Coda Story . ## [Betrayal](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/betrayal) _2026-08-07 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ The Cambridge Scandal & the Corruption of Elite Institutions. ## [The exploitative mind strikes again: Trump vows to roll back the Endangered Species Act to allow for data centers, mining, and drilling....](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/the-exploitative-mind-strikes-again) _2026-08-05 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ Profit over creation? Seems to be the playbook. ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HeuWVuJC41oa) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [This absolutely sends me](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-08-03-this-absolutely-sends-me/) _2026-08-04 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back: Claude said: \[giant response verbatim\] Please don t do this. I mean, I ve done this. But I ve been on the receiving end too many times now. This is \[ \] The post This absolutely sends me appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s… ## [AI companies are buying up millions of books, and destroying them: the next centralization is human intelligence.](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/ai-companies-are-buying-up-millions) _2026-07-28 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ They'll burn the books so that the machine can control the knowledge. ## [An Oligarchy Like No Other | 3 of 4](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/an-oligarchy-like-no-other-3-of-4) _2026-07-24 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ This is the third of four posts relating to American oligarchy. ## [World Cup Showcases Positive Nationalism](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/world-cup-showcases-positive-nationalism) _2026-07-22 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ Let's Build on This. ## [Standing with strangers, a Tbilisi story](https://www.codastory.com/polarization/standing-with-strangers-a-tbilisi-story/) _2026-07-21 · Frankie Mills · Coda Story_ As Georgians resist their government and a turn towards Moscow, a British journalist reflects on her time in Georgia and what she learned about authoritarianism, exile, belonging and resistance The post Standing with strangers, a Tbilisi story appeared first on Coda Story . [Listen](https://videos.files.wordpress.com/PT3rt3KS/cover-video.mp4) ## [Oligarchy Strikes Again, FDA issued false positive to Taylor Farms after White House Meeting...](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/oligarchy-strikes-again-fda-issued) _2026-07-20 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ A centralized food system is a vital threat to us all. ## [FIFA’s games betray our trust](https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/fifas-games-betray-our-trust/) _2026-07-15 · Oliver Bullough · Coda Story_ A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it’s about trust and how healthy societies can’t exist without it; and the World Cup has shown what happens when trust breaks down. The decision to allow U.S. striker Folarin Balogun to play in the World Cup match against Belgium was, according to FIFA, made by the The post FIFA’s games betray our trust appeared first on Coda Story . ## [The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches](https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-chilean-curse-is-its-abundance-of-riches/) _2026-07-15 · Phineas Rueckert · Coda Story_ In Donald Trump’s famously transactional foreign policy, the critical resources of sovereign countries, from oil to rare earths, are being weaponized in a superpower struggle for control and dominance The post The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches appeared first on Coda Story . [Listen](https://videos.files.wordpress.com/R5llGuP8/chile.mp4) ## [Regenerative AG Executive Order helping farmers or shareholders?](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/regenerative-ag-executive-order-helping) _2026-07-11 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ Will Bayer AKA Monsanto benefit from this executive order? ## [Founder Energy](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/founder-energy) _2026-07-10 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ Unity Is Our Strength. ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ASEqJUBOj8nw) _2026-07-10 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Why Locality Matters: it disrupts shareholder capitalism.....](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/why-locality-matters-it-disrupts) _2026-07-10 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ An essay on the impact of buying local. ## [Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU & Congo’s conflict coltan](https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/holding-the-u-s-to-account-tether-exits-eu-congos-conflict-coltan/) _2026-07-08 · Oliver Bullough · Coda Story_ The United Kingdom has taken over the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global standard-setter on tackling money laundering, and seems determined to keep calm and carry on despite the gigantic Donald Trump-sized hole being blasted in everything it’s trying to do. The new president of the Financial Action Task Force is Giles The post Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU &… ## [Coupling models and harnesses](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-07-06-coupling-models-and-harnesses/) _2026-07-06 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ This is very interesting. The more time I spend in Claude Code, the more I thought that coding agent harnesses were the perfect sort of software to be open sourced. The blossoming popularity of Pi seemed to reinforce this. But then… Simon Willison, Better Models, Worse Tools The post Coupling models and harnesses appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [Reclaiming food sovereignty in a tyrannical world....](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/reclaiming-food-sovereignty-in-a) _2026-06-29 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ Will it require all of us coming together to make this change? I believe so. ## [Save Our Bacon Act is another law to help control the food supply and strengthen the oligarchy....](https://simplehomemakermeals.substack.com/p/save-our-bacon-act-is-another-law) _2026-06-25 · Shelby Lancaster · Nourish with Shelby_ This law will strip states from banning inhumane farming practices and allow industrial farms to continue harming animals. ## [Understanding the amount of bullshit work](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-06-24-understanding-the-amount-of-bullshit-work/) _2026-06-24 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ AI is going to help humanity by revealing just much human time is spent on bullshit work. Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Across \[ \] The post Understanding the amount of bullshit work… ## [How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing](https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/how-governments-enable-kleptocrats-by-doing-nothing/) _2026-06-24 · Teona Tsintsadze · Coda Story_ I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S. foreign policy might look like, and it was a pretty striking demonstration of Europe’s irrelevance right now that the only Western European country mentioned in the 90 minutes of the chat was the UK, and The post How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing appeared… ## [James Tyson Currie | 'Missouri Mule: How Harry Truman’s Stubbornness and Determination Helped Win World War II and Led Him to the Presidency'](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/james-tyson-currie-missouri-mule) _2026-06-21 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ Listen now | Serve to Lead Podcast [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201514121/55e2a78955845e7de21b2e97e1fdebee.mp3) ## [I was there](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-06-17-1162/) _2026-06-17 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ The post I was there appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [Trillionaires are a national security risk](https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/trillionaires-are-a-national-security-risk/) _2026-06-17 · Oliver Bullough · Coda Story_ I’ve been writing this newsletter since 2020, and in my first edition I marvelled at the concept of the centi-billionaire, and the fact there were at the time three people with 11 zeros in their net worth. What a six years it’s been. When I started writing this week’s edition, Elon Musk was a mere The post Trillionaires are a national security risk appeared first on Coda Story . ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KmvpTEP6AkUj) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Trump Targets Free Speech](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/trump-targets-free-speech) _2026-06-16 · MICHAEL TRAYNOR · The New Nationalist_ First Amendment Freedoms Are Collateral Damage of Billion-Dollar Defamation Suits. ## [Local journalism](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-06-14-local-journalism/) _2026-06-14 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ South Shore news: AI-generated newsletter has paying audience (Boston Globe) This feels like the future. AI agents, directed by assignment editors, gather local intelligence and context. Other agents draft and edit stories. Humans handle quality control and accountability. Meanwhile, separate software tracks traffic and prominence, feeding signals back to adjust agent behavior — optimizing for \[ \]… ## [The new skill: task imagination](https://joseph.by/blog/2026/2026-06-11-the-new-skill-task-imagination/) _2026-06-12 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ With models that can run for days, NLW argues we ll all have to up-level ambition — and become token-efficiency optimizers who match models to use cases. Nate B. Jones s framing: most of us have nothing that s ever taken even an hour on AI, so the scarce skill is imagining tasks worth handing to a model \[ \] The post The new skill: task imagination appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [Michael Patrick Cullinane | 'Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet'](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/michael-patrick-cullinane-theodore) _2026-06-04 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ Listen now | Serve to Lead Podcast [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200511686/c1d08bd296e1973ac56c4c3a5dea7d91.mp3) ## [Donald Trump’s $250 gift to launderers and criminals](https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/donald-trumps-250-gift-to-launderers-and-criminals/) _2026-06-02 · Teona Tsintsadze · Coda Story_ It has become a theme of this newsletter to lay out what is needed to tackle financial crime, and then to point out how the U.S. government is doing the opposite, and I assure you that I am as bored of it as you are. I try therefore to avoid writing about Donald Trump any The post Donald Trump’s $250 gift to launderers and criminals appeared first on Coda Story . ## [Is America in a Pre-Heroic Moment?](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/is-america-in-a-pre-heroic-moment) _2026-05-28 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ Those Who Say We're in a Post-Heroic Age Are Wrong--Again. ## [AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud](https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/ai-is-not-the-answer-to-ai-enabled-fraud/) _2026-05-27 · Teona Tsintsadze · Coda Story_ A top banker has got in trouble by referring to employees whose jobs will be replaced by AI as “lower-value human capital.” But he’s just saying the quiet part out loud: compliance officers have been expected to work like inefficient computers for years already anyway. Standard Chartered CEO Bill Withers used the unfortunate phrase when The post AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud appeared… ## [An Oligarchy Like No Other | 2 of 4](https://jamesstrock.substack.com/p/an-oligarchy-like-no-other-2-of-4) _2026-05-13 · James Strock · The New Nationalist_ The Scaffolding of Our Oligarchy. ## [Entirely Foreseeable AWS Outages](https://rys.io/en/182.html) _2026-02-22 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ According to Financial Times , Amazon Web Services experienced at least two minor outages in the final few months of last year, all caused by their internal “AI” tooling malfunctions. The article quoted one senior AWS employee describing them as “entirely foreseeable”. Amazon is going hard on slop generators. LLMs are extremely complex systems. And complexity creates real risk. I recently wrote… ## [AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture](https://rys.io/en/181.html) _2026-01-07 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities. It’s way more mundane. When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what inevitably… ## [Jevon’s Paradox and AI](https://joseph.by/blog/2025/2025-12-29-jevons-paradox-and-ai/) _2025-12-29 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don t even do today as workers: they will \[ \] The post Jevon’s Paradox and AI appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [The math behind an LLM](https://joseph.by/blog/2025/2025-12-21-the-math-behind-an-llm/) _2025-12-21 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ The best, shortest and sweetest explanation of how an LLM works. The post The math behind an LLM appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [Be YouTube, not Qwest](https://joseph.by/blog/2025/2025-10-05-be-youtube-not-qwest/) _2025-10-05 · Joseph Bou-Younes · Joseph Bou-Younes's Website_ Today, no amount of model training is too much. No price for that training is too high. The builders bet is that inference will be orders of magnitude cheaper in 5 years. Build for that. Be Netflix or YouTube, not Qwest. This year, American tech companies will spend $300 billion to $400 billion on artificial \[ \] The post Be YouTube, not Qwest appeared first on Joseph Bou-Younes s Website . ## [The Hype is the Product](https://rys.io/en/180.html) _2025-07-27 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making… ## [Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot](https://rys.io/en/179.html) _2025-06-10 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have long considered Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy . Now, based on findings published by the investigative journalism outlet IStories (original in Russian; English version by OCCRP available here ), and my own analysis of packet captures from Telegram for Android and of Telegram’s protocol described below, I consider Telegram… ## [Privacy of online age verification](https://rys.io/en/178.html) _2025-04-24 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ This blogpost has been improved based on fedi discussions around it; you can find the Polish thread here , and the English thread here . I appreciate all this input! I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare. I highly recommend reading their piece, which dives into several issues… ## [Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives](https://rys.io/en/177.html) _2025-04-05 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ Eight years ago Lance Ulanoff had a problem. William Shatner could not find him on Mastodon . His distress is understandable, relatable even. Who wouldn’t want to be found by Captain Kirk himself! The way he dealt with that feeling of distress, however, was something different. He came to the conclusion that because Captain Kirk could not find him, Mastodon can’t survive. You see, Lance Ulanoff,… ## [General Secretary of the Department of Government Efficiency](https://rys.io/en/176.html) _2025-01-22 · Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · \Songs\ on the Security of Networks_ Seems like in all the chaos after the power transition in the US, this was largely missed: Musk-led “Department of Government Efficiency” will have access to all unclassified US government records. It’s always the unassuming, irrelevant looking stuff like that that people need to pay attention to. The rise of Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union really got going when he became the… ## [The Singal Press – Stephanie Miller Exhibiting Rare Courage Among American Media](https://politicalvoicesnetwork.com/the-singal-press-stephanie-miller-exhibiting-rare-courage-among-american-media/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-singal-press-stephanie-miller-exhibiting-rare-courage-among-american-media) _2024-11-22 · admin · Politicalvoices_ If it were not for three hours of sanity, from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Central time each morning, I do not know how I would be handling this election and its results. For me, it’s on an AM radio station, WCPT in Chicago, which is the only radio station to which I now listen, since... ## [The End of Left-Leaning News? Is Progressive Journalism Being Systematically Destroyed?](https://politicalvoicesnetwork.com/the-end-of-left-leaning-news-is-progressive-journalism-being-systematically-destroyed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-end-of-left-leaning-news-is-progressive-journalism-being-systematically-destroyed) _2024-11-22 · admin · Politicalvoices_ Share Have you heard that Comcast is planning to sell MSNBC? Is Rupert Murdoch planning to buy it? Will America’s media landscape soon resemble those of Hungary and Russia? Without the rightwing media juggernaut, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president next year and wouldn’t have won in 2016. That said, the progressive media landscape looks...