<![CDATA[Stories by Ann Isabelle on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@annisabelle?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/0*mbM2jpSvFuYodFga Stories by Ann Isabelle on Medium https://medium.com/@annisabelle?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:40:48 GMT <![CDATA[Always a Stranger in a Strange Land]]>

The buildings are still where I left them, and that is the whole trick of going back.

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Why some books earn our respect, while others quietly move into our lives and never leave.

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]]> https://medium.com/@annisabelle/why-dumas-still-wins-181408ed582a?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/181408ed582a Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:46:21 GMT 2026-06-15T22:46:21.355Z <![CDATA[“I’m Delighted to Be Wrong”]]>

On May 26, 2026, Sam Altman stood before an audience at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney and admitted he had been…

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]]> https://medium.com/@annisabelle/im-delighted-to-be-wrong-7a9db82df015?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/7a9db82df015 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:31:02 GMT 2026-06-14T23:31:02.228Z <![CDATA[When the Architecture is the Ideology]]>

Different societies build different worlds, and if you want to understand what a society actually believed and not what it said it…

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]]> https://medium.com/ruach/when-the-architecture-is-the-ideology-b220651b61b3?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/b220651b61b3 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:25:01 GMT 2026-06-17T11:43:55.741Z <![CDATA[We Built the World’s Fastest Antisemitism Machine and Named It a Chatbot]]>

There is an old propaganda principle: you don’t need people to believe a lie completely. You just need to repeat it often enough that…

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]]> https://medium.com/ruach/we-built-the-worlds-fastest-antisemitism-machine-and-named-it-a-chatbot-1a84dd8d7fe4?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/1a84dd8d7fe4 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:22:31 GMT 2026-06-09T16:08:10.161Z <![CDATA[When AI Pulls the Trigger]]>

Ukraine and the End of the Human in the Loop

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]]> https://medium.com/@annisabelle/when-ai-pulls-the-trigger-43c428ad8deb?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/43c428ad8deb Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:31:41 GMT 2026-06-07T12:31:41.211Z <![CDATA[Cows for McDonald’s or The Stunning Logic of “Queers for Palestine”]]>

There is a special kind of mental gymnastics needed to march through a Western city waving a rainbow flag in solidarity with a government…

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]]> https://medium.com/ruach/cows-for-mcdonalds-or-the-stunning-logic-of-queers-for-palestine-f2650f8844be?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/f2650f8844be Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:46:23 GMT 2026-06-01T23:46:23.178Z <![CDATA[When the Blood Libel Gets a Dog]]>

I am 5 foot nothing Jewish woman and I own a German Shepherd. And I say this with the full authority of someone who has been herded around…

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]]> https://medium.com/ruach/when-the-blood-libel-gets-a-dog-378316ce2c1b?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/378316ce2c1b Thu, 14 May 2026 23:21:29 GMT 2026-05-15T20:33:07.415Z <![CDATA[I Want to Be Free, Not a Character in Someone Else’s Theology]]>

In a reasonable world, I would probably be somewhere right of center.

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]]> https://medium.com/ruach/i-want-to-be-free-not-a-character-in-someone-elses-theology-a7039760ce11?source=rss-1474c1de12c9------2 https://medium.com/p/a7039760ce11 Wed, 13 May 2026 17:48:12 GMT 2026-05-13T17:48:12.365Z <![CDATA[The First Robot That Reliably Folds Laundry Will Own Civilization]]>

My house is an Alexa house. And not in a casual way. Not “we have one on the counter and occasionally ask about the weather like civilized…

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