YEAR II  ·  No. 538  ·  FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2026

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MONTHLY EDITORIAL

One writes when neither speech nor silence is possible any longer. This is the second year.

The first website lasted a year. It was functional, in the way that windowless offices are functional. They serve their purpose, no one complains too much, and you learn not to think about what might be otherwise. I built it…

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Gabriel Schwarb

Editorial Director

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AcidReport runs on their servers. We chose Infomaniak before it was a political statement. Boris Siegenthaler just made it one

On May 13, 2026, Boris Siegenthaler signed a document. He did not give a speech before the European Parliament. He did not hire a public relations firm to explain his vision for the digital world. He did not publish a manifesto. He signed a document that transferred the majority of voting rights in Infomaniak Group …

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Learning Every Day as an Act of Resistance in a System That Doesn’t Need You to Be Stupid, Just Distracted

There is a distinction the system would rather we not make. Between knowing and learning. Between accumulating and transforming. Libraries are full of people dead on the inside, as the saying goes, and it is true, but there is something more precise to say. In the information age, that inner death has become profitable. This …

COLOMBIACHRONICLE

Totó la Momposina and the Memory That States Do Not Keep

Some cultures survive because an institution decides to protect them, fund them, catalogue them in a national heritage inventory. And some cultures survive in spite of all that, carried in the bodies of people who decided alone, without mandate or budget, that what they bore was too important to let die. Sonia Bazanta Vides, born …

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The world is not chaotic. It is administered. By identifiable interests, with documentable methods, for the benefit of actors who would prefer not to be named. Journalism that pretends not to see this does not practise neutrality: it practises complicity.

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