Frederik Paulus
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Book thread 2025 To track what I read this year...
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This company is worth a bazillion dollars and has billions of users, yet popular newsletters display in font size 10,000. smh.
#enshittification
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Without referring to it, this article points out why large models do not create art.
www.yankodesign.com/2025/12/16/r...
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Remember “The Ghiblification”? We Treated Ghibli As Disposable Because That’s How We Treat Everything - Yanko Design
First, it was cottagecore, filling our feeds with sourdough starters and rustic linen. Then came the sharp, symmetrical pastels of the Wes Anderson trend, followed by a tidal wave of Barbie pink that ...
https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/12/16/remember-the-ghiblification-we-treated-ghibli-as-disposable-because-thats-how-we-treat-everything/
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Terrifying stuff.
www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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Death is the policy
RFK Jr.‘s measles response is junk science and social Darwinism.
https://www.theverge.com/health/661362/rfk-jr-measles-autism
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Michael Hobbes
6 days ago
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
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Tech Won’t Save Us
6 days ago
🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨 We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025. Don’t miss your chance to vote! 🗳️ Cast your ballot:
twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
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Miaganga
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George Pearkes
8 days ago
Fun story. For shares (ETFs or otherwise) to trade, you need market makers to provide a bid and offer price for you. The thing is, that takes capital...and there's a finite amount of it. There are so many ETFs now that market makers may have insufficient capital to provide liquidity in all of them.
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RBC Warns of ‘Finite’ Market-Maker Capital For ETF Share Classes
Market-making firms in the $13 trillion exchange-traded fund industry may come under strain amid a potential wave of new listings in 2026, with US regulators poised to allow asset managers to offer ET...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/rbc-warns-of-finite-market-maker-capital-for-etf-share-classes
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Transgender World
9 days ago
Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral
www.transvitae.com/w...
#transgender
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Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral
“I don’t hate trans people, but…” often precedes exclusion. This article explains how soft bigotry works and why words matter.
https://www.transvitae.com/why-i-dont-hate-trans-people-but-is-never-neutral/
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Tim Onion
9 days ago
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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It always stretched credulity that oil & gas majors would transform into leading renewable energy players overnight.
www.ft.com/content/c6d7...
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Inside the failed green revolutions at BP and Shell
How the energy giants tried to transform their businesses — but ended up dramatically scaling back those plans and writing off billions of dollars
https://www.ft.com/content/c6d7d225-f322-4e88-b7e3-2ca2beecd495
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Kat Tenbarge
10 days ago
When men say things like “if you have a womb, you’re a woman,” I just assume they are the same type of guy as Jeffrey Epstein. This never fails me
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Rob Ford
10 days ago
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
10 days ago
INBOX: James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida Governor who is accused by his competitor Rep. Byron Donald of statutory rape, released a campaign video today pledging "to make the trains run on time," a direct reference to the Fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini
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Apple Music’s Replay reel is nicely done.
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Glenn Fleishman
11 days ago
Make a family code word. Ask for it. Don’t ever volunteer it when someone calls you. Make them say it to you.
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Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕
12 days ago
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬 He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
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This week in Surveillance Log 010: complexity usually doesn't work; pro-natalism as a tenet of the far-right; and giving up on hard problems is better for your wellbeing.
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Surveillance Log 010 - 2025-12-12
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙ The...
https://buttondown.com/fpaulus/archive/surveillance-log-010-2025-12-12/
11 days ago
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BeijingPalmer
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TechCrunch
13 days ago
The massive data breach at the South Korean retail giant Coupang affects more than half of the country's population.
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CEO of South Korean retail giant Coupang resigns after massive data breach | TechCrunch
The massive data breach at the South Korean retail giant Coupang affects more than half of the country's population.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/ceo-of-south-korean-retail-giant-coupang-resigns-after-massive-data-breach/
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Michael Hobbes
13 days ago
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
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Brian Merchant
14 days ago
It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
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Brian Merchant
14 days ago
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!
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McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-commercial
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jamelle
15 days ago
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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Michael Hobbes
16 days ago
I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless
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BeijingPalmer
17 days ago
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
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Brian Hughes
22 days ago
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Katelyn Burns
21 days ago
This this this
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Daily Dot
22 days ago
“No! That’s wrong!”: Lilly Wachowski slammed right-wingers for co-opting the “red pill” and missing the point of “The Matrix” entirely
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This is a shocking story - disturbing and ultimately enraging.
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Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/group-breaking-people-out-of-ai-delusions
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e. hashman
29 days ago
This PR is like the perfect distillation of LLM-assisted hubris. Dev who has never written a compiler or even studied the DWARF spec vibe codes out 13k LOC of "support" in OCaml with a bunch of shallow test cases, and doesn't think he needs to understand his own PR because "Claude understands it!"
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David✶🇬🇹
about 1 month ago
He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Orion Rummler
about 1 month ago
A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a young athlete: Some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year
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A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a student athlete: These are some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide in the past year | CNN
On a cool November night in 1999, dozens of transgender people and their friends stood thousands of miles apart in Boston and San Francisco. They lit slender candles and spoke into the surrounding dar...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/us/transgender-day-remembrance-victims
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𝖓𝖆𝖎𝖑𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖌𝖑𝖔𝖜 (s̷l̷u̷t̷ ̷e̷r̷a̷) 🏳️⚧️🦇🖖
about 1 month ago
If you have the $ Give some If you have a platform Hold up others If you love you trans brothers, sisters and all Tell them/him/her/it Remember those of us that are not here and help make sure we don't lose more
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BeijingPalmer
about 1 month ago
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
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Angus Johnston
about 1 month ago
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the
#MeToo
movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.
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Gianmarco Soresi
about 1 month ago
Re: Epstein’s emails
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lines down
about 2 months ago
Oh man
finance.yahoo.com/video/openai...
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OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop for New Investments
Sarah Friar, the CFO of OpenAI, says the company wants a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance massive investments in AI chips for data centers. Friar spoke at WSJ’s Tech Live event in Califo...
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/openai-wants-federal-backstop-investments-201700279.html
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evy kwong
about 2 months ago
attacking SNAP benefits while also telling US army soldiers to rely on foreign government handouts
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Micah
about 2 months ago
I think this is in some ways the most encouraging thing for me from last night they really went national full court press to beat Mamdani and they got what they wanted - Republicans showed up, held their noses and voted for Cuomo, the anti-Mamdani coalition worked they still lost by 9
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e.w. niedermeyer
about 2 months ago
having a good laugh at this, secure in the knowledge that precisely zero footage of me fighting exists online
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Rati Gupta
about 2 months ago
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni
about 2 months ago
Underground, Overground My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues. This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.
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Brad Lander
about 2 months ago
Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
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dell cameron
about 2 months ago
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me &
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/
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Petter Törnberg
about 2 months ago
Most people study what misinformation says. We decided to study how it looks. Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war. Here's what it means 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nick Evans
about 2 months ago
And after the Romans left we were both invaded by Germanic-speakers, which is why Wales and Wallonia have similar names. Both basically mean ‘foreigners’ Which was rude
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Crip Dyke
about 2 months ago
1/x (but short, I promise): If you read (or have already read) this WSJ piece, the context you may be missing is that for at least 100 years people have been saying that they were trans (using varied language) and cis ppl responded by spending HUGE effort proving that they aren't really trans.
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Vandy, C.A.
about 2 months ago
funny I'd rather live next to JV's brown family than him
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