Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

CSIS' China Power project just updated their data on purged military officials, and it is very informative: chinapower.csis.org/china-pla-mi...

Pretty rich of Jack Clark to go on the Ezra Klein podcast days before this to pontificate about AI safety, honesty and trust.

The long 2010s are finally over

Burn it all down

This is also true of the universities, law firms, and media orgs that settled with Trump. They gave away their integrity and their rights—and got what in return? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

I genuinely wonder sometimes if people around Trump are showing him fake, AI-generated video or something.

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

I sort of love this. www.ft.com/content/c30d...

The heart of the matter. Excellent. pca.st/episode/a23a...

CATO: “.. The whole idea that Trump tariffs would ‘protect US manufacturing jobs’ was all lies then, and it is all lies now.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

It is very funny that Elon talks about building a city on Mars or a city on the Moon when we all know him building a city in Indiana would be an unmitigated disaster

the elder millenial poster's retirement home has achieved its final form

our position is that he’s doing a bloody great job delivering on the priorities of the british people right and will be doing so for three more months until regrettably the people have expressed their anger at his serious failures of leadership

The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.

Munich, of course, famously a great place for British PMs to get an easy win that saves their career.

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

I’m seeing a lot of QAnon stuff being recycled, including allegations of cannibalism that can be read in-between the lines. As with QAnon, the real problem, that elites abuse people while also conspiring with one another to stay in power, is being replaced by whatever claims gets the most views.

ten years ago today no one clapped

Breaking: WeWork acquires Meetup for approximately $156 million.

a thing we have to be careful of is that all these people, especially Epstein, had a hugely exaggerated view of their own power and loved to claim they were responsible for shit they had very little or nothing to do with.

Enter Sandeep

Billion dollar ideas: an all-Sikh boy band, N’Singh

why

leute die chat gpt mögen mochten auch - snipes - hans im glück - max richard lessmann - zartmann - the 48 laws of power - stiefel

So it's decided: Every documentary will begin with the subject getting miked in a sit-down interview, idle chit-chat with the offscreen director, and then cutting to the title card after they ask, "Have we started?"

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Addendum: From the Commission's press release, it sounds like X did not do any ad hoc risk assessment report before launching Grok, which it is obligated to do under the DSA. The case is similar to when TikTok launched its Lite version in 2024, without doing a proper risk assessment beforehand.

Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.

Me, shitting all over something that has been in business for a century: well look I guess this just isn’t popular, the customers have spoken.

finally

It's funny. I never thought watching a gibbering lunatic burn the world down would be so boring.

Defector's @jaspercwang.bsky.social on why it's ok for business owners to choose integrity over survival. With host @greenwell.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

I'd just add I don't think the crisis is at all over, because Trump never sticks to agreements just because they're conventionally considered binding. The crisis will only be over when his regime is dislodged from Washington, if then.

US trade policy: @nytimes.com 🇺🇸

Ok, this made me chuckle. 58% of Swiss say: “I would like neutrality to be interpreted in such a way that Switzerland can join a defence alliance such as NATO if the threat increases.” Which is a hilarious question & position as joining NATO is the end of neutrality.

🔥🔥new story out Noch im November 2022 wollte BR Sommaruga ein robustes Plattformgesetz- mit Pflichten für Big Tech-Firmen. Dann übernahm Rösti das Dossier..und machte ein Downgrade. Sprich: Fokus auf Transparenz und Nutzerrechte. Aber kaum Pflichten mehr für Meta&CO www.republik.ch/2026/01/20/w...

invading Switzerland after refusing to believe their claims that they have no power over the award of the Fifa Peace Prize

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Emergency meeting of EU Member States representatives 5pm today, to discuss relations with the US

EU ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting Sunday after Donald Trump threatened escalating tariffs on European allies until the US is allowed to buy Greenland. Cyprus, which currently holds the EU presidency, called the meeting, set for 5 p.m. Brussels time, according to Reuters. #Greenland

If all those European politicians who utter their outrage about Trump's threats on X would stop using X, this would be one step forward.

Even if he weren’t lying & going to TACO & committing serially illegal offenses requiring immediate impeachment & removal, he has no idea how to impose & credibly enforce differential tariffs on only 6 of 27 🇪🇺 countries.

“If you try to take my hostage I’m going to shoot myself in the foot.”