It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We have Jimmy Wales coming up on today's show, co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is turning 25 years old. We'll talk about political

controversies surrounding it right now, like a lot of people on the right call it

Wikipedia. Elon Musk even started an alternative AI version that he calls Grogapedia. But Jimmy

Wales is going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia

and talk about his new book that's somewhat of a history and somewhat of a blueprint for

restoring trust in the world, which is one of the missions that he sees for Wikipedia.

The book is called The Seven Rules of Trust. So Jimmy Wales coming up. Also later, we're going to have a call in on

what you do when you quit social media, even if you just quit it temporarily. Jake Hasby and

Kang wrote about this in the New Yorker. He's going to join us. One of the things he was interested

in is whether people read more books when they take a social media holiday.

So we'll take your calls and talk to Jake Haskin-Kang about that later.

But we start here.

There has been yet another act of war, I think it's fair to call it, between the Trump administration and Venezuela,

and another act of culture war by the Trump administration

toward Europe, which matters domestically too.

Regarding Venezuela, President Trump announced that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast.

He said, quote, it was seized for a very good reason. We'll see if we can

figure out what he thinks the reason is. And about the oil, he said, quote, well, we keep it, I guess.

Venezuela called the seizure a bare-faced robbery and an act of international piracy. Interestingly,

and maybe complicating your thinking on this, this year's

Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Carino Machado, is in Oslo, Norway,

where the Peace Prize ceremony was just held. The New York Times says Ms. Machado has been a steadfast

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