Emrys Schoemaker
@emryss.bsky.social
digital, social & political transformation; research & policy @ Caribou Digital & fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement
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“The writer is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leads its crypto investment arm”
The WhatsApp moment for money is here
“The writer is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leads its crypto investment arm”
The WhatsApp moment for money is here
The WhatsApp moment for money is here
This is the year that stablecoins are becoming part of the mainstream for online and international payments
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February 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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“The writer is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leads its crypto investment arm”
The WhatsApp moment for money is here
“The writer is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leads its crypto investment arm”
The WhatsApp moment for money is here
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More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
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Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
“I now had to meticulously fact-check every single thing in the articles. And at least 60% of it would be completely made up,” she says. “I would just end up rewriting most of the article. So something that would take me two hours now took me four hours, making half the money.”
February 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
“I now had to meticulously fact-check every single thing in the articles. And at least 60% of it would be completely made up,” she says. “I would just end up rewriting most of the article. So something that would take me two hours now took me four hours, making half the money.”
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AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/06/a...
AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster
Here’s a new preprint from Anthropic: “How AI Impacts Skill Formation”. AI coding bots make you bad at learning, and don’t even speed you up. [arXiv] The researchers ran 50 test subjects through fi…
pivot-to-ai.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM
AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/06/a...
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cognitive sovereignty....
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
cognitive sovereignty....
#sovereigntystack - from individual, to state…
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
#sovereigntystack - from individual, to state…
Love this:
Something to be said about the zen of craftsmanship, actually writing code to reason through a problem. AI coding doesn’t create space for this silence, and is subsequently much more exhausting.
Sigh, twas ever thus:
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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The only way to work less, is to actually work less.
Sigh, twas ever thus:
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Sigh, twas ever thus:
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most | TechCrunch
Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.
techcrunch.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Sigh, twas ever thus:
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet? | WIRED
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet? | WIRED
For all the talk about agents as the future (state, personal productive blah blah blah) we've yet to solve for the basic authorisation / verification / accountability identity chain:
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents • The Register
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents • The Register
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents
Asia In Brief: PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!
www.theregister.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM
For all the talk about agents as the future (state, personal productive blah blah blah) we've yet to solve for the basic authorisation / verification / accountability identity chain:
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents • The Register
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents • The Register
"The council argues that selling property to fund an IT project, which would ordinarily be paid for using ongoing revenue, is justified because long-term savings are expected through "automation and enabling more tasks to be undertaken via self-service,"
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UK council dips into capital assets to fund Oracle project • The Register
UK council dips into capital assets to fund Oracle project
: West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
www.theregister.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 AM
"The council argues that selling property to fund an IT project, which would ordinarily be paid for using ongoing revenue, is justified because long-term savings are expected through "automation and enabling more tasks to be undertaken via self-service,"
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UK council dips into capital assets to fund Oracle project • The Register
UK council dips into capital assets to fund Oracle project
: West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
www.theregister.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
UK council dips into capital assets to fund Oracle project • The Register
Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI • The Register
Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI
Opinion: After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles
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February 9, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI • The Register
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"having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue.” wow this beats sending over sleeper agents anytime
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It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:51 PM
"having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue.” wow this beats sending over sleeper agents anytime
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Want to deliver a successful agentic AI project? Stop treating it like traditional software | Designing and building agents is one thing, but testing and governance is crucial to success | ITPro
Want to deliver a successful agentic AI project? Stop treating it like traditional software
Designing and building agents is one thing, but testing and governance is crucial to success
www.itpro.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Want to deliver a successful agentic AI project? Stop treating it like traditional software | Designing and building agents is one thing, but testing and governance is crucial to success | ITPro
The pessimist who became a prophet
The pessimist who became a prophet
Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming
giftarticle.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 AM
The pessimist who became a prophet
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Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.
This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.
This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.
January 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.
This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.
This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.
