This is a brilliant fellowship and incredibly worth applying to if you’re an ambitious early-career journalist who wants to see the States – and it’s certainly an *interesting* time to do that.

The most interesting question about context graphs is why we never built them effectively for humans

This is no doubt a big, expensive deal for Netflix, but it makes sense. WWE's back catalog is a major retention device for WWE fans, and arguably, their behind-the-scenes in-house documentaries are some of the most interesting stuff they produced. cordcuttersnews.com/netflix-pins...

Lots of great lists of what people read in 2025. Who’s got a good list of things they re-read in 2025? dailystoic.com/this-is-what...

Theres a line in @fredwilson.xyz’s 2025 wrap-up that I can’t digest as readily as the rest: “Like Instagram made everyone a photographer, AI will make everyone a coder. And that's a great thing.” It can be 100% correct or 100% wrong, depending on your perspective. avc.xyz/what-happene...

[shoving yeats into a locker] how’s the gyre fuckass

"We need to cultivate the skill of exact thinking in demented times." A huge amount to chew on in this gargantuan letter from author Dan Wang. Silicon Valley psyche, AI, China, European malaise, it's all in there. Make a pot of coffee and dive in. danwang.co/2025-letter/

Superb explainer on Venezuelan oil from almost a month ago. Worth your time.

It is wild that amid all our current earthly chaos we’re going to send a team up to the moon this year. www.space.com/artemis-2-hu...

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

Almost all you need to understand current American politics is captured neatly in two Randy Newman songs: Rednecks & Political Science. Enjoy. youtu.be/hTLHxpUQ_B8?... youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?...

Nobody’s talking about affordable healthcare today, I see

Now what

Cost of living protests. This is not ideological, or religious unrest. This is the kind of protest we could see much more of in Europe and the US before long, anywhere the wealth gap is widening.

Might be time to re-read @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s dad’s book. Read it in college about 20 years ago.

Interesting way to think about the impact of mostly consuming content via algorithmic suggestions

1,115 days until January 20, 2029

Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB

"He doesn't swing his arm like a regular American" What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?

Love the nature of interaction here on Bluesky but if you’re invested in or curious about international AI/tech/VC it’s hard to ignore the fact that the bulk of the conversation & content is still back… over there. See more and more people drifting back.

The perfect day.

Can’t get my head around the American far right co-opting Christianity and the right to say ‘Happy Christmas’ when it’s the celebration of a radical Palestinian anti-capitalist who preached tolerance and prioritized caring for the poorest of the poor.

Amazing little Irish detail from The Family Stone, one of the best Christmas movies. Ballybunion!

And we are up to 2GW of installed solar PV, half of which is on rooftops. Need to double & triple this but it’s encouraging.

Absolutely none of this is based on reality. Lack of diversified energy including renewables hurts America’s national security.

Agree with ⁦‪Bill Gurley‬⁩ here: “I don't share this thought that we're all gonna go watch movies that we've imagined that are made just for ourselves.” Simple, direct, demonstrably human communication & content creation is going to soar in value in the AI age. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

This is the kind of thing that sees your citizens turned away at the border of sane, healthy countries, with good cause.

Poor boomers

I find it wild that choosing the bulletproof grade of your kid's unicorn pattern school backpack is a choice that people make in an advanced society

It does seem like TMTG was just used as a hollow, grift-ready SPAC here – a Trojan horse, with its belly-space auctioned off by the knowing Trojans.

Matt Levine continues to be one of the greatest explainers of complicated money things that ever wrote an email newsletter. If you're not making time for Money Stuff five days a week you're missing out. Levine on WBD rejecting the Paramount bid: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Journalists will flat out refuse to learn how to write an SEO-optimized headline but will spend hours trying to turn an AI vending machine chatbot communist. www.wsj.com/video/series...

Could not agree more with the words and the sentiment of this. Tech resistance among journalists & professional communicators is insanely self-defeating and something I've sought to combat for 15 years. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...

Despite Irish podcast consumption being very high, it’s hard to see how we don’t have vast over-supply in here. I ran podcasts for big names in the US market, cash didn’t come easy. Is Ireland so influencer-influenced that it’s worthwhile for all of them? thecurrency.news/articles/211...

Half forgot I wrote this but after years of trying to shave off slivers of attention on behalf of giant corporations it felt good to write. Title stolen wholesale from Bo Burnham (clips included in the post) open.substack.com/pub/markhamn...

End your day the right way: by following a link on social media to a stressful article about the 15 habits – many of them related to the phone you hold in your hand right now – that are slowly killing you and that you definitely do all the time. everydayhealthtips.substack.com/p/harvards-n...

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

There's no meaningfully good reason to do this from a security perspective. This is all about the administration punishing speech they don't like. Once it gets rolling, regular citizens are next. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

The single best piece of writing I've seen on the quesiton of whether or not there's a looming AI bubble. More questions than definitive answers, but that's as good as anyone can offer. www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default...

Real two fingers to all law-abiding US citizens living overseas, doing an additional tax return to send tax back to the US treasury on their overseas income.

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 73% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 87% at 05:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 25% of demand. 3% of generation was exported, 5% of demand was met by imports.

Add it to the pile of evidence that the Trump admin’s understanding of the world is frozen in c. 1989

The British electricity system was over 50% renewables last year The system operator is expecting by 2030 grid companies will connect 34.5GW batteries, 32.1GW offshore wind & 29.9GW solar Considerably more than any of those sectors has operating in Britain today www.ft.com/content/9913...

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

The Financial Times finally covers the Network State cult. Is this tech fascism? "I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.

Just loved Parr’s work. He had this way of poking fun at public absurdity with his camera, without ever exploiting or punching down - he remained kind and empathetic and whimsical. This is the closest I ever got to emulating him. Will spend the rest of my life trying.

Well, this is awfully sad news. Martin Parr, legendary photographer, has died. www.instagram.com/p/DR9mbjtjEj...

Fascinating deck from Matthew Ball on Onlyfans’ success www.matthewball.co/all/onlyfans...