galbeckerman.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic, formerly NYTBR, and author of the forthcoming “How to Be a Dissident.”
👤 Joined on 19 November 2024
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@galbeckerman.bsky.socialEarlier that day you can also hear @galbeckerman.bsky.social discussing his book, How to be a dissident, with Jonas Bals. Should be good!!
Show PostI'm giving a talk in Oslo on Saturday about tactics to derail AI. I'm gathering examples of obfuscation, sabotage and poisoning of AI, and am having a lot of fun planning the talk. Come and listen if you're in Oslo on Saturday 24th at 13:30! www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
Show PostThe writer S. An-sky set out in 1912 to document the culture of a now-lost Yiddish civilization, @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes. More than a century later, Beckerman explores the thousands of folktales, manuscripts, and sacred objects from An-sky’s expedition: theatln.tc/CsIb48Mr
Show PostIn 1912, the writer S. An-sky set out to record the songs and folktales of a Jewish civilization on the brink of destruction. Now the treasures he collected are under threat in wartime Kyiv, @galbeckerman.bsky.social reports.
Show PostWhat a superb article, what an astonishing essay on a miraculously preserved archive: the ethnographic records and other notes of S. An-sky, the maskil, the littérateur, the hyphenated Hebrew preserving a glimpse of a vanished world. Each time I thought it had peaked, it got better. And it's free!
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