Cori Crider
@coricrider.com
Executive Director, Future of Tech Institute, Acting ED, Tech@Meliore. Hon. Prof. UCL Laws. Fellow, Open Markets. Before: Foxglove, Reprieve.
https://futureinstitute.tech/about-us
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https://futureinstitute.tech/about-us
https://www.coricrider.com
I’ll take it. HNY, y’all ♥️
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I’ll take it. HNY, y’all ♥️
Okay maybe it’s best that brands aren’t on Bluesky - but every so often I wish they were to be yelled at (eg when you pitch up at your destination and your hire car firm - Hertz - tell you to f*ck off and won’t honour your booking for love or money).
They’re not here but don’t use Hertz, fam.😕
They’re not here but don’t use Hertz, fam.😕
December 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Okay maybe it’s best that brands aren’t on Bluesky - but every so often I wish they were to be yelled at (eg when you pitch up at your destination and your hire car firm - Hertz - tell you to f*ck off and won’t honour your booking for love or money).
They’re not here but don’t use Hertz, fam.😕
They’re not here but don’t use Hertz, fam.😕
Now for the 2026 @projectsyndicate.bsky.social predictions!
Mine: 2026 should be the year Europe starts to break its dependency on US cloud giants. Read from everyone else who braved a guess in a maelstrom here:
prosyn.org/tvTWz35?h=2X...
Mine: 2026 should be the year Europe starts to break its dependency on US cloud giants. Read from everyone else who braved a guess in a maelstrom here:
prosyn.org/tvTWz35?h=2X...
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Now for the 2026 @projectsyndicate.bsky.social predictions!
Mine: 2026 should be the year Europe starts to break its dependency on US cloud giants. Read from everyone else who braved a guess in a maelstrom here:
prosyn.org/tvTWz35?h=2X...
Mine: 2026 should be the year Europe starts to break its dependency on US cloud giants. Read from everyone else who braved a guess in a maelstrom here:
prosyn.org/tvTWz35?h=2X...
If you’re chilling at home enjoy this zany hang with Marc rebillet, Reggie, erykah badu (you can jump straight to the jam session) m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtR1...
CHILLING WITH ERYKAH AND REGGIE
YouTube video by Marc Rebillet
m.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you’re chilling at home enjoy this zany hang with Marc rebillet, Reggie, erykah badu (you can jump straight to the jam session) m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtR1...
Reposted by Cori Crider
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
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Christmas morning - looking across to Beinn Alligin.
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Christmas morning - looking across to Beinn Alligin.
In any event, I'm off to have a tamale and worship at the Temple of Masa. Happy merry, people 🌮🎄✨
December 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In any event, I'm off to have a tamale and worship at the Temple of Masa. Happy merry, people 🌮🎄✨
Also, don't forget: the dead cat of the Breton et al EU visa bans happened JUST as a) Congress posted a giant new Epstein docs dump and b) the samizdat 60 Minutes on the torture gulag got out via Canada. They want you to look away. Don't.
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Also, don't forget: the dead cat of the Breton et al EU visa bans happened JUST as a) Congress posted a giant new Epstein docs dump and b) the samizdat 60 Minutes on the torture gulag got out via Canada. They want you to look away. Don't.
Totally right. Every time the Administration punches like this they make the case better than anyone else: Europe has urgently to move off US tech, sever dependencies, stand on its own. In time my fellow freedom-loving Americans will run this gang out of town; but Europe can't take the risk anymore.
I sat in rooms debating how and if to use sanctions. With each use, you know you are incentivizing others to insulate themselves from the U.S. economy and system. You balance this with gains to national interest from using them. No national interest offset anymore, just damage to us over time.
12/In the US, it is unclear what national interest is being served by sanctioning EU officials. Increasingly, it looks like hyper elites (think Big Tech) is driving the bus. The result: an acceleration in the breakdown of transatlantic relations.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Totally right. Every time the Administration punches like this they make the case better than anyone else: Europe has urgently to move off US tech, sever dependencies, stand on its own. In time my fellow freedom-loving Americans will run this gang out of town; but Europe can't take the risk anymore.
Solidarity with the people hit by this ban. The bullies did not even punch current enforcers in a position to hit back.
Also: no chance this dead cat has landed on our Christmas tables at the same time the Administration have tried, and failed, to suppress damaging news - from Epstein to 60 Mins.
Also: no chance this dead cat has landed on our Christmas tables at the same time the Administration have tried, and failed, to suppress damaging news - from Epstein to 60 Mins.
The @ec.europa.eu response to US entry restrictions on EU individuals working on DSA, hate speech, and content moderation.
“Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies”
Merry Christmas 🎄
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
“Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies”
Merry Christmas 🎄
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals
The European Commission strongly condemns the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.\nFreedom of expression is
ec.europa.eu
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Solidarity with the people hit by this ban. The bullies did not even punch current enforcers in a position to hit back.
Also: no chance this dead cat has landed on our Christmas tables at the same time the Administration have tried, and failed, to suppress damaging news - from Epstein to 60 Mins.
Also: no chance this dead cat has landed on our Christmas tables at the same time the Administration have tried, and failed, to suppress damaging news - from Epstein to 60 Mins.
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“Advisers advise, minsters decide.” That was Margaret Thatcher’s view. The fact that Trump now wants to control advice of any kind, including from British NGOs, is what makes the new right different from the old. For the new authoritarians, Thatcher was just too, well, laissez faire.
December 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Advisers advise, minsters decide.” That was Margaret Thatcher’s view. The fact that Trump now wants to control advice of any kind, including from British NGOs, is what makes the new right different from the old. For the new authoritarians, Thatcher was just too, well, laissez faire.
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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In the land of (nixtamalized) maize and kind of thinking of picking it up as my god too
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
In the land of (nixtamalized) maize and kind of thinking of picking it up as my god too
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08:30 this morning - Looking towards Kinloch. (Loch Shieldaig).
December 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
08:30 this morning - Looking towards Kinloch. (Loch Shieldaig).
🌲Happy holidays! Just in time to put your feet up, @projectsyndicate.bsky.social's Best Reads of 2025 is out.
I picked Eric Vuillard's Order of the Day, wherein German industrial giants back the rise of Nazism. Dark, funny, all too topical.
More recs here: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c...
I picked Eric Vuillard's Order of the Day, wherein German industrial giants back the rise of Nazism. Dark, funny, all too topical.
More recs here: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c...
PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2025
PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that most influenced their thinking over the past year.
www.project-syndicate.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🌲Happy holidays! Just in time to put your feet up, @projectsyndicate.bsky.social's Best Reads of 2025 is out.
I picked Eric Vuillard's Order of the Day, wherein German industrial giants back the rise of Nazism. Dark, funny, all too topical.
More recs here: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c...
I picked Eric Vuillard's Order of the Day, wherein German industrial giants back the rise of Nazism. Dark, funny, all too topical.
More recs here: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c...
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Only took three months for the US to weaponize the US-UK Tech deal: "British officials on Monday confirmed the US suspended the deal last week, with one saying the Trump administration was pushing for UK concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
US suspends technology deal with the UK
Washington pushes for concessions from London on the broader trade relationship
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Only took three months for the US to weaponize the US-UK Tech deal: "British officials on Monday confirmed the US suspended the deal last week, with one saying the Trump administration was pushing for UK concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
Great thread, and agree with Jamelle’s main points; but it feels interesting that the slop merchants have so toxified the word ‘algorithm’ that we speak as if an algorithmic TL we control hasn’t got one. There is one (here we can have many), it just doesn’t suck, and we have agency over it.
the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Great thread, and agree with Jamelle’s main points; but it feels interesting that the slop merchants have so toxified the word ‘algorithm’ that we speak as if an algorithmic TL we control hasn’t got one. There is one (here we can have many), it just doesn’t suck, and we have agency over it.
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By coincidence was reading V13 by Emmanuel Carrere when learning of Bondi attack - this Simone Weil quote in it seems v apt today:
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating...
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating...
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
By coincidence was reading V13 by Emmanuel Carrere when learning of Bondi attack - this Simone Weil quote in it seems v apt today:
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating...
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating...
Ok what’s everyone’s preferred alternative to Google Maps? A creepy thing today has persuaded me to kick the habit.
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ok what’s everyone’s preferred alternative to Google Maps? A creepy thing today has persuaded me to kick the habit.
🤣
TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out
to WACO: World Always Chickens Out
We are now at EMPANADA:
Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
to WACO: World Always Chickens Out
We are now at EMPANADA:
Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Taco is Dead. Long Live Empanada
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...
buttondown.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🤣
Holiday read recommendation:
Just finished Orbital - a tiny perfect gem. If you missed it, don’t.
Just finished Orbital - a tiny perfect gem. If you missed it, don’t.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Holiday read recommendation:
Just finished Orbital - a tiny perfect gem. If you missed it, don’t.
Just finished Orbital - a tiny perfect gem. If you missed it, don’t.
“We are not weak, we are not small.”
Big deal from Merz. I’ve long thought weaning Europe off its dependency on US monopoly tech requires member states to drive it - especially but not only 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷.
Brussels should follow, but sadly won’t lead, the seismic shift required. Capitals are key.
Big deal from Merz. I’ve long thought weaning Europe off its dependency on US monopoly tech requires member states to drive it - especially but not only 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷.
Brussels should follow, but sadly won’t lead, the seismic shift required. Capitals are key.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the end of the Pax Americana, yesterday in Munich, Germany.
“Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.
“Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.
December 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“We are not weak, we are not small.”
Big deal from Merz. I’ve long thought weaning Europe off its dependency on US monopoly tech requires member states to drive it - especially but not only 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷.
Brussels should follow, but sadly won’t lead, the seismic shift required. Capitals are key.
Big deal from Merz. I’ve long thought weaning Europe off its dependency on US monopoly tech requires member states to drive it - especially but not only 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷.
Brussels should follow, but sadly won’t lead, the seismic shift required. Capitals are key.
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“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Compare this to Lula. Brazil took no bullying, enforced its law, pulled the plug on X, weathered a temporary hit - and now? It is blowing over.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Compare this to Lula. Brazil took no bullying, enforced its law, pulled the plug on X, weathered a temporary hit - and now? It is blowing over.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...