Cassiano Gobbet
@cassianogobbet.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, disinformation-tackler, parent. Writing about digital, media, disinformation and technology most of the time. Read me at zeitgeist.digital
If you like football (real football) and you are lucky enough to be in London, don’t miss this event. Talking to Jonathan and his colleagues is worth a thousand hours of average punditry.
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If you like football (real football) and you are lucky enough to be in London, don’t miss this event. Talking to Jonathan and his colleagues is worth a thousand hours of average punditry.
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Pentagon suggests Mark Kelly, an ex-Navy captain, could be court-martialled for urging military to defy unlawful orders.
Pentagon says it is investigating US senator over ‘illegal orders’ video
Pentagon suggests Mark Kelly, an ex-Navy captain, could be court-martialled for urging military to defy unlawful orders.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Pentagon suggests Mark Kelly, an ex-Navy captain, could be court-martialled for urging military to defy unlawful orders.
Imagine if Hitler was not losing the war. Somebody tries to talk about an armistice and he says “fine, but the territory I am in is mine and you can’t sue me for war crimes”. He would have a quarter of France, almost all western soviet republics and would leave as a statesman. This is the 🇺🇸 proposal
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Imagine if Hitler was not losing the war. Somebody tries to talk about an armistice and he says “fine, but the territory I am in is mine and you can’t sue me for war crimes”. He would have a quarter of France, almost all western soviet republics and would leave as a statesman. This is the 🇺🇸 proposal
The BBC affair is just another step in the way of dismounting the true headstone of UK democracy. It’s no coincidence. Institutions credibility fall together. Government, media, judicial power, are entangled with the incoming chaos.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The BBC affair is just another step in the way of dismounting the true headstone of UK democracy. It’s no coincidence. Institutions credibility fall together. Government, media, judicial power, are entangled with the incoming chaos.
Gaza, 2025 and Warsaw, 1940
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Gaza, 2025 and Warsaw, 1940
When you read the text it seems you are seeing an NGO asking for money to buy bread. Disgusting.
Looser bonus rules and tax breaks needed to save London stock market, says CBI
Industry lobby group draws up 20-point plan to stop London ‘drifting into irrelevance’
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
When you read the text it seems you are seeing an NGO asking for money to buy bread. Disgusting.
The 1,000,000,000 time that US opposition tries to convince itself that Trump’s downfall is around the corner. How can so many intelligent people be fooled over and over?
Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?
Depending on who you ask, between 4 and 6 million people showed up – and according to one theory, this could be a turning point
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The 1,000,000,000 time that US opposition tries to convince itself that Trump’s downfall is around the corner. How can so many intelligent people be fooled over and over?
If the rest of the world had said “enough” when Hitler tried to take over part of Czechoslovakia, WWII would have very different. Pretending that Metanyahu, Trump and Putin aren’t doing nothing special is the same kind of mistake.
June 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If the rest of the world had said “enough” when Hitler tried to take over part of Czechoslovakia, WWII would have very different. Pretending that Metanyahu, Trump and Putin aren’t doing nothing special is the same kind of mistake.
There is no thing such as "piracy". The issue is with wrong pricing. Netflix discovered that long ago - Pirated football streams amount to ‘industrial scale theft’, report finds buff.ly/A2ISN9Q
Pirated football streams amount to ‘industrial scale theft’, report finds
Sky executive calls for action from tech groups and government
www.ft.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There is no thing such as "piracy". The issue is with wrong pricing. Netflix discovered that long ago - Pirated football streams amount to ‘industrial scale theft’, report finds buff.ly/A2ISN9Q
When you watch September 5, the movie about the terror attack in 1972 Munich Olympics you can’t avoid imagining we had a whole industry focused on giving the news right 24/7. Journalism had many problems, but we were insanely safer than we are now.
May 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
When you watch September 5, the movie about the terror attack in 1972 Munich Olympics you can’t avoid imagining we had a whole industry focused on giving the news right 24/7. Journalism had many problems, but we were insanely safer than we are now.
If you pay attention, you will notice how the same pattern of increasing inequality by transferring money from the working class to the uber-rich is everywhere. It will end badly, but the elite simply can’t help itself.
Two decades of the Glazers: a debt of morals at United with football paying the bill
Fans protested against the leveraged takeover but were offered little support and the toxicity has had a lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you pay attention, you will notice how the same pattern of increasing inequality by transferring money from the working class to the uber-rich is everywhere. It will end badly, but the elite simply can’t help itself.
Isn’t it just too obvious that Trump is going to save the tech moguls in the last minute? Isn’t it the part of the deal?
The US government is coming for Google and Meta – but what will happen next?
Google suffered another defeat last week in its clash with the justice department, while Meta hasn’t been able to wriggle its way out of antitrust cases either
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Isn’t it just too obvious that Trump is going to save the tech moguls in the last minute? Isn’t it the part of the deal?
And Harvard seems to be the first US university with some shame leftover to display... buff.ly/9tc03uS
Donald Trump threatens to remove Harvard’s tax exempt status
Warning comes as the university rejects the administration’s demands to overhaul its governance
www.ft.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And Harvard seems to be the first US university with some shame leftover to display... buff.ly/9tc03uS
The shamelessness of this techno-cleptocracy has no limits: Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk Call to 'Delete All IP Law' buff.ly/rjrFEoy
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April 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The shamelessness of this techno-cleptocracy has no limits: Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk Call to 'Delete All IP Law' buff.ly/rjrFEoy
Unbelievable that the Europe-US partnership of centuries is over - EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears buff.ly/imzUEYJ
EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears
European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices
www.ft.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Unbelievable that the Europe-US partnership of centuries is over - EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears buff.ly/imzUEYJ
The shamelessness of the tech bros Trumpian attack to the EU is unspeakable. This is indeed an industry that would deserve tariffs
EU will not rip up tech rules for trade deal with Trump, senior official says
Bloc is ‘very committed’ to laws on big tech and is not targeting US companies, says European Commission’s Henna Virkkunen
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The shamelessness of the tech bros Trumpian attack to the EU is unspeakable. This is indeed an industry that would deserve tariffs
EU drug companies warn of exodus to US as Trump threatens import tariffs - It only gets worse. After keeping the world as hostage for the COVID vaccines, now big pharma blackmails the EU to make more money. There are no strong enough adverbs to describe.
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
EU drug companies warn of exodus to US as Trump threatens import tariffs - It only gets worse. After keeping the world as hostage for the COVID vaccines, now big pharma blackmails the EU to make more money. There are no strong enough adverbs to describe.
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas. Clean energy, water dessalinization and reforestation are the three challenges to find out if mankind enters the 22nd century dying or not.
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas. Clean energy, water dessalinization and reforestation are the three challenges to find out if mankind enters the 22nd century dying or not.
The situation worldwide is straightforward but unstoppable. Capitalism, like monarchies did for 200 years, is nearing its end and will resist fiercely, sparking numerous conflicts, including two world wars, before conceding. #Capitalism #History buff.ly/PaB1WoL
Donald Trump defies market tumult as tariffs take effect
Investors reel as new levies on the EU, China and other major trading partners come into force
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April 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The situation worldwide is straightforward but unstoppable. Capitalism, like monarchies did for 200 years, is nearing its end and will resist fiercely, sparking numerous conflicts, including two world wars, before conceding. #Capitalism #History buff.ly/PaB1WoL
The global state, from the economy to politics and personal bonds, often reduces to a belief that relationships need a victor and a loser. Even couples feel adversarial—her gain is his loss. We'll realise, like always, the hard way, that this mindset isn't the solution. #Relationships #Collaboration
April 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The global state, from the economy to politics and personal bonds, often reduces to a belief that relationships need a victor and a loser. Even couples feel adversarial—her gain is his loss. We'll realise, like always, the hard way, that this mindset isn't the solution. #Relationships #Collaboration
US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian. The Twitter Republic is more concerned with their future careers than letting the world burn. How shameful. You will be known in history as the “Coward Generation”. There is still time. “Stand and face your test”.
April 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian. The Twitter Republic is more concerned with their future careers than letting the world burn. How shameful. You will be known in history as the “Coward Generation”. There is still time. “Stand and face your test”.
His view is similar to what Nazi strategists wanted in 1933. It ended as we know it ended. Invading Greenland and taking over Taiwan is no longer an insane thought. Alea jacta est.
April 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
His view is similar to what Nazi strategists wanted in 1933. It ended as we know it ended. Invading Greenland and taking over Taiwan is no longer an insane thought. Alea jacta est.
The concept Trump is trying to play is the autarchy concept. He wants the US to have all the resources it needs under its command.
Global stocks plummet as Donald Trump offers no respite from tariffs
Global stocks plummet as Donald Trump offers no respite from tariffs
www.ft.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The concept Trump is trying to play is the autarchy concept. He wants the US to have all the resources it needs under its command.
Global stocks plummet as Donald Trump offers no respite from tariffs
Global stocks plummet as Donald Trump offers no respite from tariffs
There is always a clowning aspect of fascists rising to power. Nigel Farage, for example, is a mixture of Adolf Hitler and Mr Bean. JD Vance is a walking caricature. Before he rose to power, people described Hitler as a rail station waiter and a hairdresser. It’s a joke to fear, not laughing.
March 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There is always a clowning aspect of fascists rising to power. Nigel Farage, for example, is a mixture of Adolf Hitler and Mr Bean. JD Vance is a walking caricature. Before he rose to power, people described Hitler as a rail station waiter and a hairdresser. It’s a joke to fear, not laughing.
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.