Somehow this is a year old despite it being something I should have been sent 2000 times. I’m going to start using the phrase “brain-only” a lot in various bits

How to establish credibility at work as an introvert (I am one),, bit.ly/4dGihOT

the pitch deck to sponsor sec. of transportation sean duffy's family road trip reality show (obtained by POLITICO) is as stupid and corrupt as you'd expect: static.politico.com/74/6e/5da7a1...

"The idea that Trump would negotiate AI guardrails with China is as real as a chatbot’s hallucination. AI’s ace card with Trump is that its valuations fuel the stock market. There is thus a near-zero chance that he will permit serious regulation as president." My column. as.ft.com/r/c634b2eb-a...

“[T]he more important thing is that we have a home on the open web that we control, and whatever anti-creator changes Substack is forced to make in the future to live up to its valuation we won’t be affected by.” - @caseynewton.bsky.social on leaving Substack for the open social web

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

There is something really grim about a defense tech giant co-opting the chore coat (which has its roots in French egalitarian labor) to signal allegiance to data-mining and drone warfare. Seems we've moved past Patagonia vests (= "I manage your 401k") to "I optimize the surveillance state".

Palantir’s merch serves no tactical purpose for “warfighters,” but is a new way for the laptop class to signal brand alignment. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/92802...

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

Movies are more real than reality to most Americans. I wrote about it here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

We cannot have the AI model advising clients. They might think they don’t need us ft.trib.al/lMSDrcI | opinion

Stop treating leadership communication as a soft skill; it is a behavioral science. From Hanlon's Razor to Gall's Law, you must account for the invisible psychological barriers that break your messaging. Read the 7 critical realities every leader must face: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/the-hid...

Delivering Predictions 2026 deck in Hamburg. Love Germany. 🇩🇪

As a longtime TV news person, I'd be tempted to say what's happening at CBS is journalism malpractice except journalism has nothing to do it. It's an arrogant political strategy that viewers have soundly rejected. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

This insane Kash Patel follow-up is just through and through first-class reporting (under fire) from Sarah Fitzpatrick and @theatlantic.com, in so many ways. This is how you do the job. Hats off. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Do links hurt publishers on Twitter? Our new analysis says yes. (+ some data coming for Bluesky!)

Musk and SEC propose to settle Twitter lawsuit for just $1.5mn ft.trib.al/Y6ztH8f

A third of Donald Trump’s social media posts now come in the middle of the night when the soon-to-be 80-year-old president should be sleeping, raising urgent new concerns about his mental health as he navigates war.

Internet clipping has “become its own ecosystem, its own economy, that only a few people have really figured out. And they have gamed it relentlessly,” the podcaster Ed Elson tells @cwarzel.bsky.social. Watch their full discussion on the “clip economy”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvD...

He’s barely beating @killthecomputer.com lmfaooooooo

Half of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action are successful ft.trib.al/LEAZdjI

Apropos of nothing, this was just fascinating

It’s never a good idea to sack the entire National Science Board ft.trib.al/EMDN6bE | opinion

It was a political hire. She was qualified only in that sense. www.status.news/p/tony-dokou... Data obtained by @status.news shows Tony Dokoupil’s “Evening News” sinking to historic lows, with veteran TV news executives casting the network as a “sinking ship” and blaming its woes on Bari Weiss.

A culture of divination has grown all around us - from machine learning, to prediction markets, and forecasting of all kinds, not to mention psychics and astrology. But have you ever wondered what, exactly, is in a prediction? TED talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4w... #PROPHECY #authors

What do King Louis XI, Oedipus, Larry Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and Joe Frazier have in common? Check out my TED talk to find out. Out on YouTube now!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4w... #Prophecy #Prediction

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

What the AI ‘jobpocalypse’ narrative misses ft.trib.al/I8EDaBZ | opinion

Every bit of this speech should be read ahead of the WHCD. What exactly are we doing should be the question on everyone’s mind.

spent like 3 min being like...wait is it april 1 or something how am i being punked but nope it's real www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/p...

“Federal investigators believe the commando bet more than $33,000 on the prediction market Polymarket just hours before President Donald Trump announced Maduro's capture in January, the sources said.”

I talked with Meta employees about the company's move to track their computer use and turn them into training data. Is this the future of knowledge work? www.platformer.news/meta-mci-mon...

Defence spending is ‘magnet’ for criminals, warns EU fraud chief ft.trib.al/PBLJUWz

You're brilliant at your job. So why are you stuck? The missing is the game you didn’t know you were playing. Politics is the operating system of every organization. And if you're not playing, you're getting played. falkrehkopf.com/blog/organizational-politics-the-game-running-your-career

You need to read this. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game. V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice. www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model tests limits of global cyber defences ft.trib.al/EWnfrGT

The annoyance economy isn’t going anywhere ft.trib.al/t7ylnaR

"Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media." www.politico.eu/article/pete... "Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar used landmark appearances on state-controlled media outlets on Wednesday to reaffirm his intention to suspend their broadcasts as soon as he’s sworn in." Yes.

It’s clear we won’t regulate AI for safety’s sake ft.trib.al/29lgu04 | opinion

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

"If we really might be facing 'the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity,' as Altman once wrote, shouldn’t we expect people at some point to (non-violently) freak out?" www.platformer.news/sam-altman-a... @caseynewton.bsky.social

The fact that this isn’t simply cancelled (never mind that it was gross even before Trump) is such an indictment of the press as a whole. How can they claim to be serious people??? I can’t get my head around it.

You don't get the sense that the people running the Correspondents dinner have thought this thing through. @status.news: "Seems hard to believe he will not deliver remarks to the crowd, knowing they will be carried on cable news networks." Can anyone imagine a WHCD official correcting a Trump lie?

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Betting on risk changes the world ft.trib.al/R7Cgu23 | opinion

Oh, FGS - @politico.com is taking sponsorship money from Palantir - running their ads through news updates. That's absolutely the *last* thing we need in our politics, Palantir going straight for the political-media environment at a time when we need massive scrutiny of their contracts in the UK.

Chatbots are devastating lives, right now, fuelling a new era of gender-based violence How much more evidence is needed before this is taken seriously? Our full article in collaboration with @everyonesinvited.bsky.social ⬇️

Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen. Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons for @thenerve_news. 👏