Gary Singh
@gary-singh.bsky.social
Newspaper columnist at Metro Silicon Valley for 20 years. Author at History Press. Sober vagabond. More words at Alta Journal, Hidden Compass, Atlas Obscura, IEEE Computer Graphics, AAWW & more. https://www.garysingh.info
Elon threw this guy off Twitter. Please read. His book looks amazing. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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An ode to the mother-flâneur on @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/the-city-wit...
The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs
In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1840 short story “The Man of the Crowd,” an unnamed narrator sits in a café and watches a busy street. He notes small details about the people passing by, and he categorizes th…
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“Before the Beatles, did anyone ever imagine that popular music could change the world?” The way Greil Marcus answers that question. 👏👏 open.substack.com/pub/greilmar...
Ask Greil: July 29, 2026
Too much Bob Dylan, no Chuck Berry, and a door just barely open for the J. Geils Band
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“If you’re selling dehumanisation, those who are buying will feel no empathy for you when your time comes.” www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-fr...
Deborah Frances-White: Andrew Tate’s too toxic to touch now. But look at the damage he’s done
Languishing in prison, the manosphere’s favourite misogynist has been abandoned even by Trump. But thanks to him, male discourse around women, consent and empathy has been well and truly poisoned, wri...
thenerve.news
From New York Review of Books: baseball caps that say "Libraries Save Democracy." shop.nybooks.com/products/lib...
Libraries Save Democracy Baseball Cap
This custom-made cap may take up to three weeks for delivery. Show your support for public libraries and the essential role they play in a democracy by wearing this well-made baseball cap. Buy one for...
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"The movie even explains Iran’s rageful response to Trump’s violations of 'Zeus’ Law' and tells us of the possible consequences of his illegal and morally criminal attack on that country (which had not attacked us first) as his war of choice plays out." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
Trump and The Odyssey: The Ancient Curse He Just Unleashed on America
From Zeus to Abraham to modern Iran, Christopher Nolan's film illuminates the timeless warning against turning trust into a weapon…
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"Today’s content creators exaggerate already exaggerated traits, which were built with television sequencing in mind, carefully selecting from the baggage of prior exaggerations—this is our culture’s new emotional repertoire, pre-primed for maximum watchability." lareviewofbooks.org/article/max-...
A Brief History of Flow | Los Angeles Review of Books
What the internet learned from television.
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The dark side of Little House on the Prairie. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Masked men to morphine addiction: The original TV Little House on the Prairie was a true American horror story
A Netflix spin on the classic children's books is about to launch. It remains to be seen how it compares to the 1970s adaptation – which is much darker and grimmer than most remember.
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Great conversation. Proud to know both of these folks. 👇 The Frommer's Travel Show | Homer's The Odyssey: A Discussion of the World's First Travel Book with Phil Cousineau. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-9t2es...
Podbean App
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A simple and inspiring read from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social this fine morning. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
Why Patriotism is Essential to the Defense of our Multiracial and Multifaith Democracy
And a July 4th story from my own immigrant family
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"Being consumed by literature meant being consumed by world literature; there was no sense of boundaries or categories. There were just more authors to discover." wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Comparison Game by Laurence Laluyaux - Words Without Borders
Agent Laurence Laluyaux, winner of WWB’s 2026 Ottaway Award, considers the advantages and pitfalls of comp titles.
wordswithoutborders.org
A friend asked me last Monday: "So, how was your weekend? How was your week?" I said: "Well, a lot of World Cup games. Either in the press box or in the streets of downtown San Jose every day. Other than that, well ... um ... uh ... Actually, there WASN'T anything other than that."
Interview of the day. Now back to World Cup ... zeteo.com/p/could-trum...
Could Trump Resign After His Iran Humiliation? Jim Acosta Weighs In
A botched reflecting pool renovation, a capitulation to Iran, and an embarrassing spectacle at the Kennedy Center… Will the U.S. president finally give up?
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I'm glad Ishaan Tharoor is writing for the New Yorker these days. www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War
Even though an agreement has been reached, nations around the world will be feeling the effects of the Iran war for some time.
newyorker.com
“Seeing these data centers pop up feels eerily similar to watching the fracking boom,” said Jones, of 350 Seattle. “One day it’s not a thing, the next it’s all over the country.” wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/the-...
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing and winning in both blue and red parts of the country.
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How data centers are blowing a hole in state budgets open.substack.com/pub/populari...
How data centers are blowing a hole in state budgets
States are paying billions to subsidize the AI boom
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"The Roman poet Juvenal, watching his republic rot into empire, sneered that a people who once handed out commands and legions had shrunk their whole appetite down to two things, panem et circenses, bread and circuses." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
While America Burns, Trump Builds Himself a Colosseum
The UFC spectacle is more than a cage fight: it's a monument to corruption, self-enrichment, and the imperial Roman politics of bread and circus…
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I love the ceremonial booing of Trump. That keeps America great.
“As if the little people’s rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war against the 3rd Reich and entitles this comic book nobody to lecture the actual heroes.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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"Still, it’s fitting for a country being ruled by chaos and fear. Not even soccer is immune from Trump’s reverse Midas touch. FIFA is just reaping what it has sown." www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
Behold the Joyless World Cup - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The 2026 FIFA World Cup in the US is becoming a spectacle of greed, social exclusion, and authoritarianism.
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