From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy

A very special piece of frontline reporting open.spotify.com/episode/0vZq...

“Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires. How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next” www.authoritarian-stack.info

"POLITICO reached out to 11 of the users behind the accounts and learned that they were real people with widely differing political views ranging from left-wing to the hard-right ... One thing they all had in common: They were under the age of 35" www.politico.eu/article/unit...

“Over the summer, the Chinese government and private investors poured $2.1 billion into a new state-owned fusion company. That investment alone is two and a half times the U.S. Energy Department’s annual fusion budget.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...

“The media believed it was responding to a real political shift. It wasn’t. It was responding to a manipulated signal created by anonymous amplification networks and foreign engagement farms” www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-manufa...

"This is what happens when someone who has never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist. The mask doesn’t just slip—it falls off entirely, and all that’s left is the naked self-interest underneath" www.techdirt.com/2025/12/09/t...

"We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them." resonantcomputing.org

"The internet is not improved by treating its users like criminal suspects and our lives as opportunities for corporate profit" www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

"It’s certainly a problem for human artists if AI begins to sound more like them. But a potentially bigger problem may be that humans will start to sound more like AI." time.com/7338205/rage...

“Every day, another major corporation or elected official or distant family member is choosing to speak to you in this particular voice. This is just what the world sounds like now. This is how everything has chosen to speak.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

"Since ... Oracle announced a $300bn deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315bn in market value" www.ft.com/content/064b...

“Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

“Information warfare is now more akin to battle by autonomous drones—hyperpersonalized, relentlessly adaptive, and cheap enough for any actor to use against its adversaries.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"American culture has built up the idea of brand choice as a political act" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“Every creator whom Fortune spoke with said their reach had increased sharply after Meta’s January policy shift, which came just a few months after President Donald Trump threatened to imprison Zuckerberg.” fortune.com/2025/11/20/g...

“The U.S. economy in 2025 is split in two: Everything tied to artificial intelligence is booming. Just about everything else is not.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio" www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

“Israel’s public position — a nation forced into a defensive war and making every effort to minimize civilian casualties — is eroded by more documentary evidence each day” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

“Are my piggies enjoying their slop?” joinspread.com/post/5e0c989...

Xi is really good at this stuff.

“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...