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There is nobody who celebrates the division in the USA more than Russia and the mullahs in Iran. Their bot networks will fan the flames coming from both sides in order to make it burn higher and hotter.

There are the good news, the promising facts out there..

New York! Stay safe 🙌❄️☃️

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung

Great read: pracap.com/an-ai-addend...

the AI story won't end with either a super intelligence enslaving humanity or some "life of abundance"-utopia. it'll end the way these things always end. the bubble will burst. the economy will tank. the tech moguls will golden-parachute onto their super yachts. normies will pick up the pieces.

I wrote a piece about gathering first-party data without breaching reader trust for the News Product Alliance. newsproduct.org/blog/the-fir...

The present state of so much ...

“MIT found the biggest ROI in back-office automation—eliminating business process outsourcing, cutting external agency costs, and streamlining operations.” Not sexy, but this is where AI can really make people’s lives easier—by building interfaces with crappy software fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

Since security guarantees are back in discussion, for those interested in the requirements, tasks, and what a European deterrence force might look like - check out this piece from back in March with Jack Watling. warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...

Spoiler: without any risks, we will lose our freedom step by step..

New blog post! Bridging vs cross-posting. They’re similar, but bridged conversations tend to be more unified across networks, while cross-posting ends up more fragmented. Feedback is welcome! And friendly reminder, if you appreciate what you do here, feel free to check out our Patreon!

One thing all these hype cycles have in commong: at some point u get spammed with always the same cheap pitches.. in crypto it was about earning money, in AI its about selling and becoming increadibly efficient.. the one thing in commong: you know that 99% of the stuff is just scam..

Vibe code your way into the security and privacy abyss..🤷

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Almost forgot how good this is youtube.com/watch?v=yC_3...

In case you're wondering how things are going on X: blue ticks are getting 16 million views for videos of streetlights they're claiming are UFOs.

You can’t miss a deadline without first having a plan.

Apple is on defense at WWDC 2025.

VandeHei is back touting his job panic based wholly on Anthropic doomster PR. I talked about this on AI Inside. It's as if a brewery advertised its beer saying, "It will make you all stupid and dangerous! Drink more!" www.youtube.com/live/nq4QWPy...

“Above all, Europe needs to overcome its learned helplessness and act like the great power it is — especially given America’s apparent determination to destroy the pillars of its own strength.” (Funnily I had debated whether I should write my next column about exactly this)

This is literally User Experience Design 101 - Find a problem - Figure out what the solution is going to be - Find the technology that can make the solution work Google Glass, Vision Pro, Io, Horizon Worlds all did it backwards - Find a technology - Build a solution - Look for problems it can solve

Democracy is dying at the root, and all we have power to do is "like". The entire information system we exist consumes democracy like yesterday's leftover and convinces us we're freer than ever.

Great talk about "Bluesky & Open Social Media Tech" by @pfrazee.com (CTO of @bsky.app) - def worth watching! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhB...

We're living in a media environment where content is an afterthought.

So we have Germany saying it is going for the 5% goal, which no one believes they will because they don’t have the political will. And we have France saying it is going for the 5% goal, which no one believes they will because they don’t have the money. Welcome to Europe.

Skilled American and British gamers are volunteering for Ukraine's 3-week drone combat course to devastating effect for the Russian military.

On #AI (and more) How did we end up here? I distinctly remember when AI was genuinely promising to do good. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I've seen a lot of people compare AI products to the rise of the internet and warn that if we don't start using them we'll get left behind. But I don't think that's what happening. I think AI is "pivot to video" 2.0. My latest for @spitfirenews.com spitfirenews.com/p/ai-is-pivo...

Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇

For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." www.ft.com/content/5d06...

I see several things happening in Ukraine right now: 1: Ukraine has pivoted to a drone based defense. Most of the gains you see Russia making right now are coming as a result of one of two things. A: Inferior Ukrainian drone units or B: Overwhelming Numerical Superiority.

"Thanks to figures such as Mr. Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, the industry is now on a trajectory to become all the things it once claimed to hate: too big and too dependent on government largess — and a threat to human liberty." - @superwuster.bsky.social

Now we're in the age of AI slop, we need to retire the word 'feed' (as in 'social media feed'). I propose 'trough' as a alternative (as in 'pig tough', for dispensing food easily and simultaneously for multiple animals). 'Social media trough' is where we're heading.

Interesting US approach for security guarantuees: just handout your infrastructure (or maybe your whole country) and now one will attack it anymore.. 😂

Interesting US approach for security guarantuees: just handout your infrastructure (or maybe your whole country) and now one will attack it anymore.. 😂

Reality overtaking fiction..

»The political scientist Kenneth Waltz famously argued that when it came to the spread of nuclear weapons, “more may be better”—because all international rivalries would be durably stabilized by the prospect of mutually assured destruction. The world may be about to test his hypothesis.«

Wondering how much trust countries and enterprises still have in big US tech end of year..

Funny to see Starlink ad on ExTwitter promoting "no longterm contracts" 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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All of these countries fought with us and lost people in Afghanistan UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Georgia, Romania, Netherlands, Turkey, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Estonia, Hungary, Sweden 1/2

When the Trumpists have brought up all tariffs, blocked all meaningful cooperation, Europe can finally strike back and start regulating big tech..

“I like the way I look because I’m a good person.” During yesterday’s Oscars, Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet reminded everyone what really matters in this world. Thank you for being good people supporting good people💙💛

Republicans will applaud Musk for showing up to the Oval Office in a T-shirt while cutting cancer research funding, yet they will criticize a hero like Zelensky for not wearing a suit and 'only' thanking them 33 times during a war

"The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...