> Over the years I have watched my overseas colleagues risk their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives to expose injustices and hold their countries’ lead

> Over the years I have watched my overseas colleagues risk their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives to expose injustices and hold their countries’ leaders accountable. I think that this is true as far as it goes. What is increasingly apparent is that, while the press in the U.S. is nominally "free", the Three Letter Acronym agencies have been calling a lot of shots for a long time. Disappointing, but unsurprising in retrospect. There doesn't seem to be an easy answer. The internet looks like a win, but not so fast: we can assume everything we post here is going to be fed into some LLM somewhere. When we go to fill out some important application in life (say, a job as a cartoonist) does HR run a query to find out if we are sufficiently "diverse"? How do we enjoy the rich fruit of liberty without Orwellian side effects? The obvious answer would be to subscribe to Ann's Substack. Except that I haven't supported the WaPo's POV for years. Someone whom I do support is Jeff Goldstein => https://substack.com/@proteinwisdom https://substack.com/@proteinwisdom