This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Finally, a place where I can watch Colbert interviews of political candidates

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins ft.trib.al/UW8VjmX

If you have been following the clumsy — no, pathetic — attempt by CBS lawyers to collaborate with the FCC in reviving the pointless "equal time" rule, using Stephen Colbert and his show as their playground... then watch him explain it from his POV. Fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIl...

Who pays for the US tariffs? The answer may not surprise you ft.trib.al/MLaTtRV

Does your leadership confidence fluctuate with your quarterly results? Reactive leadership kills resilience. To navigate uncertainty effectively, anchor your decisions in self-trust and not external applause. Turn #InnerValidation into your strategic advantage. www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/ditch-t...

Stephen Colbert SLAMS CBS for not letting James Talarico on Late Night

This is crazy. The government — or fear of the government — is editing a CBS comedy show. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social "Yesterday, Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened."

Speaking of jawboning, this is a very effective example of the art. Or at least, it was until Stephen Colbert refused to play along. But impt to note: Brendan Carr has NO POWER to abolish an exemption that Congress wrote into the equal time rules. He is bluffing here. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

The possibility that Meta might build facial recognition again has to be considered against the backdrop of a fast-growing surveillance state in the US — and deepening ties between the tech industry and the military www.platformer.news/meta-facial-...

Why Tim Cook pisses me off the most.

This article frames CEO departures as an emotional coaching issue, but overlooks the fundamental question of power. Successful transitions depend less on emotions and rituals and more on boards taking responsibility for accountability, incentives, and consequences. www.ft.com/content/f8b7...

"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social "The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Bad Bunny and the real America ft.trib.al/aYxt9W3 | opinion

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Times columnist @polgreen.bsky.social poses a familiar question, and arrives at a... let's say an unusual answer. Why, she asks, has trust in the news media cratered? Because aggressive, probing journalism isn't really that popular. People resent it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o... [Gift link]

“banking on a culture that has given up on demanding consequences” is a phrase that is going to stay with me. Demanding accountability does not make you look cool, chill, or easy going, but it turns out to absolutely fucking necessary, in your personal and profession life and in your community.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

Business Storytelling is a strategic asset for modern leadership. It shapes decisions, aligns teams, and drives real change. Here are 9 proven techniques to transform your data into a compelling narrative #StrategicCommunication #Leadership

Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out

The lost art of self-validation ft.trib.al/JkJegjU | opinion

Stop letting lingering emotions dictate your strategic decisions. Neuroscience reveals that the chemical lifespan of an emotion is only 90 seconds. Anything beyond that is a choice. Here is the 3-step framework to develop "Rapid Resilience" and regain control. www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/rapid-r...

𝙎𝙃𝙐𝙏 𝘿𝘼 𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆 𝙐𝙋

a society losing the plot in real time

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on press failings around the Epstein files @democracynow.org

Investors pour billions into Europe’s AI and defence start-ups ft.trib.al/e9TVy7w

One point @aidanwalker.bsky.social made about why we ought to take the some of the dumbest shit ever seriously is because of the way that the right wing has fully surrendered itself to extremely online brain rot as part of its political project. prime example right here:

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a thrilling ode to Boricua joy

What we eat and how we sleep are aligned – and the early bird catches the zzzs: ft.trib.al/ZRg1EYw

Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Interview with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about evil Palantir Get Palantir out of the UK now!! youtu.be/YftdpU4ElUQ?...

Cool that people are covering this again. Would be cooler if they’d bothered to read any of the existing work on it (i.e., you know, mine) before getting basic stuff wrong.

"What you did was racist." "Well ... you're fat." Kind of proves the level of people we're dealing with.

Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets ft.trib.al/lSK8Xa5

One of the more maddening ai bubble weeks crested by headlines that just say “Jensen Huang says actually the buildout is sustainable.” What’s he gonna say? “Nah dude Blackwell will never pay for itself sorry lol” www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/n...

it goes without saying the kamala hq rebrand is hollow, hopeless, and a likely flop from an internet culture perspective

one of my favorite eps @aidanwalker.bsky.social walked me through the rise of Clavicular & the nihlist-by-default livestreamer culture. if you want to understand what we are up against here & what happens when making content becomes your only ideology this was v enlightening youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?...

Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE to accommodate local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe ft.trib.al/rg4IDIC

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

when will we as a society progress past the need for a yuval noah harari

Proper regulation of social media in Europe is what the Trump administration and its fascist supporters fear most

Clark's piece brilliantly captures emerging agent ecologies but defeatistically accepts human alienation ('translation agents to retain legibility'). Why build systems designed to exclude human understanding rather than architect for legibility by design? jack-clark.net/2026/02/02/i...

My main feeling about Moltbook is that a lot of things are going to happen in the next few years that make us say "something just like this happened on Moltbook" www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-...