“We aim to win, not unite.” Steve Bannon www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

53 videos with fabricated claims about Kirk reached 31.9 million views over three days indicator.media/p/tiktok-con...

“If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis” open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

"I believe that social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last five, six years" www.ft.com/content/00d8...

“This is all psychologically damaging to our society in ways we don’t understand" www.wired.com/story/charli...

“Living in a time of fractured attention & fractured politics, is it any wonder people would rather spend time being mildly scolded by A.I.-generated ’80s kids who seem to know what the world is about than to try to make sense of our own chaotic times?” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/s...

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... We need to make the same thing happen this time.

"Similar to the millions of image macros and cat memes created in the mid-2000s, AI slop will soon just be part of the political language we all use. We might not like to see it, but, right now, that’s exactly why it goes viral." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life" Not a business plan but a horror movie www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

If you want a glimpse of a future where humanity has a more intentional and resilient relationship with technology then pay attention to the digital natives www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

“Kennedy came off as a paranoid kook connecting red strings on a whiteboard.” When you’ve lost the New York Post editorial board … ??!!! nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

“This is massive. This will cause generative A.I. companies to sit up and take notice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

A telling indication of the limitations of the current crop of GenAI systems right here www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...

“Trump is teaching his many supporters that public office is just a game of revenge” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies" joinspread.com/post/12df823...

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

"An open war against free media, with the aim of terrorising journalists and preventing them from fulfilling their professional duty of exposing its crimes to the world." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"The hot weather across Europe has dried out vegetation and allowed wildfires to spread further, in what scientists have described as a “molotov cocktail” of climatic conditions." joinspread.com/post/321618a...

"The order to kill Anas Al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, along with his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence voices ahead of the occupation of Gaza" www.cnn.com/2025/08/10/m...

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

“Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement” … guess what they found? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"Asking him if he prefers Burger King or McDonald’s… While people are starving… this is insane" www.huffpost.com/entry/nelk-b...

“I am hired by CEOs to figure out how to use AI to cut jobs. Not in ten years. Right now.” gizmodo.com/the-end-of-w...

“This is man-made starvation being used as a weapon of war and it will lead to many more deaths unless food and aid is let in immediately.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...

“Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"What we’re seeing online is a warped image created by a very small group of highly active users." joinspread.com/post/671aeff...

"The Trump presidency has mainstreamed conspiracist rhetoric to mobilize political distrust and promote antiestablishment sentiment.” joinspread.com/post/be84300...

“Here’s what the “just let tech bros run everything” crowd fundamentally misunderstands about how innovation actually works: It requires exactly the kind of chaotic, unpredictable, open ecosystem that authoritarianism systematically destroys” www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...

Always a privilege to join the MacGill Summer School in Glenties. Came away from this conversation about democracy in an exponential age with fresh insight and enthusiasm. Best quote from the always articulate crowd: "I like what you're saying even if I only understand a quarter of it"

“Like the catastrophic loss of knowledge in Western Europe that followed the fall of Rome, it is a self-inflicted calamity. All that matters to Trumpists is that they can reign unchallenged over the ruins.” joinspread.com/post/1b2ed50...

“It’s often been said the internet brought about a golden age of conspiracy theory. But the paranoia is powered on the supply side as well, with so much once-shadowy behavior now visible in daylight that reality can seem as if it has acquired a paranoid style, too” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...

Want to access the things I’m reading, listening to, and watching? Follow me on Spread. joinspread.com/u/mark-little

“Those who thrive in the age of AI will think like the poets. That's the lesson I took away from this mind-blowing experiment with Irish poet Rita Ann Higgins. I was - in a literal sense - humbled to be part of this unforgettable conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/3xiB...

"The Palestinian enclave has truly become the scene of experiments in inhumanity, carried out with impunity, despite their now staggering scale." joinspread.com/post/67f35c1...

"Human curation will only become more important as AI slop continues to flood every corner of the internet. And it’s foreseeable we’ll have not just creator economies, but curator economies" gfrfund.com/blog/rethink...

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“It feels like a really high-quality reporter is Face-Timing you from the field" apnews.com/article/ferg...

“Summers in Russia are short. Come autumn, the stages will be dismantled and the flowers removed. No one knows what next year’s performance will look like. For now, people are living the only life they have and doing their best to ignore Mr Putin’s obsessions.” economist.com/europe/2025/...

“Iran’s predicament is a cautionary tale about what happens when loyalty to a ruling ideology determines who runs a society, and when conspiracies, rather than reality, shape decision making.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Trust cannot be manufactured on demand. It must be cultivated over time through transparency, accountability, humility and relationship-building. Scientists must do more to earn it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Both sides in this debate are making the same mistake: They treat the question as one of fate rather than choice. Instead of asking which future is coming, we should be asking which future we want: one in which humans are replaced or only augmented?” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

"This isn’t starting a war, this is ending one" ... yep, Mission Accomplished. One and done. Good luck with that. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

“Generative AI is a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“The great change wrought by the internet for most people is not in how public disorder is caused, but in how it is reported. The violence of the past week has been aired with an immediacy and intimacy unimaginable 15 years ago” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

“Once upon a time we didn’t know better, and we bought all the happy talk about Iraq. But every single assumption proved wrong.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

"During the daytime calm this week, while authorities cleared debris from streets and foreign families packed up and left, youths huddled over phones and analysed clips, like actors reviewing a performance, seeking ways to improve before the next show." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Turns out the Big Beautiful Bill is an unprecedented transfer of wealth in American society (graphic via @nytimes.com)