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When I wrote two years ago about how vital it will be to ensure that multinational tech platforms are securely on your side in advance of a conflict, I confess I was thinking in terms of conflict with China, not with the United States.
www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...
www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
When I wrote two years ago about how vital it will be to ensure that multinational tech platforms are securely on your side in advance of a conflict, I confess I was thinking in terms of conflict with China, not with the United States.
www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...
www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...
"There is a whole financial system built on moving gold around in which the gold doesn’t actually move. The gold is heavy. Just the electronic database entries move. The gold sits there. Its shininess is abstract and potential; it is dark in the vaults."
Inside @matt-levine.bsky.social is a poet.
Inside @matt-levine.bsky.social is a poet.
I thought of you when I read this newsletter. Was this your idea? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Leave the Gold in the Ground
Yap money stones, consultation fees, Morgan Stanley vendors, crypto-to-GSE contagion and the Epstein files.
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"There is a whole financial system built on moving gold around in which the gold doesn’t actually move. The gold is heavy. Just the electronic database entries move. The gold sits there. Its shininess is abstract and potential; it is dark in the vaults."
Inside @matt-levine.bsky.social is a poet.
Inside @matt-levine.bsky.social is a poet.
Wild. Seems like the teflon on #trump is not impenetrable after all.
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Wild. Seems like the teflon on #trump is not impenetrable after all.
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
"Greatness doesn't come about through accumulating great amounts of [money, fame or power]. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless."
Final throughs from the #OracleOfOmaha
www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
Final throughs from the #OracleOfOmaha
www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
www.berkshirehathaway.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"Greatness doesn't come about through accumulating great amounts of [money, fame or power]. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless."
Final throughs from the #OracleOfOmaha
www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
Final throughs from the #OracleOfOmaha
www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
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It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should
Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society
A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should
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EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race
A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.
‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.
‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
September 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race
A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.
‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.
‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
The future is electric (drones, robots, EVs). #Chips, #batteries & #magnets will be the components on which it's built. Demand will drive #innovation, so the US turning back to fossils is a future-sized foot gun.
Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs)
www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...
Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs)
www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...
The Electric Slide
The history, 99% decline, and future of the Electric Stack with Sam D'Amico
www.notboring.co
September 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The future is electric (drones, robots, EVs). #Chips, #batteries & #magnets will be the components on which it's built. Demand will drive #innovation, so the US turning back to fossils is a future-sized foot gun.
Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs)
www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...
Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs)
www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...
"The absence of natural hedgers in #predictionmarkets ends up being its Achilles heel. Everyone in the market is either a noise trader or a sharp [...] [They sustain themselves] on the back of new gamblers willing to lose money to the sharps."
reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...
reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...
Predicting our own demise
Creating society-destabilizing incentives for fun and profit!
reducibleerrors.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The absence of natural hedgers in #predictionmarkets ends up being its Achilles heel. Everyone in the market is either a noise trader or a sharp [...] [They sustain themselves] on the back of new gamblers willing to lose money to the sharps."
reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...
reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...
#SF is probably something like early-XX century #Vienna: a locus for a furious, anxious, and madly creative energy. Much of our future is conjured in the minds of the men living there, and, it turns out, they are not alright... www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-revie...
Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area
Finalist #8 in the Review Contest
www.astralcodexten.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#SF is probably something like early-XX century #Vienna: a locus for a furious, anxious, and madly creative energy. Much of our future is conjured in the minds of the men living there, and, it turns out, they are not alright... www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-revie...
Seems true:
1. This generation of AIs got us something that feels 99% right, but the last 1% (incl. error correction) will take OOMs more effort: de facto, a wall.
2. Pattern matching on language doesn't touch the world-as-is, so LLMs can never truly reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6...
1. This generation of AIs got us something that feels 99% right, but the last 1% (incl. error correction) will take OOMs more effort: de facto, a wall.
2. Pattern matching on language doesn't touch the world-as-is, so LLMs can never truly reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6...
GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Seems true:
1. This generation of AIs got us something that feels 99% right, but the last 1% (incl. error correction) will take OOMs more effort: de facto, a wall.
2. Pattern matching on language doesn't touch the world-as-is, so LLMs can never truly reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6...
1. This generation of AIs got us something that feels 99% right, but the last 1% (incl. error correction) will take OOMs more effort: de facto, a wall.
2. Pattern matching on language doesn't touch the world-as-is, so LLMs can never truly reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6...
"ATProto's frictionless, cross-platform portability contains within it the threat of creating a negative competitive environment, a classic Moloch, that could drive the online conversation into more extreme trenches."
erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
@noupside.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team thoughts?
erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
@noupside.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team thoughts?
Bluesky’s Great Social Splintering
When Elon transmogrified Twitter into X and so shifted the vibes a couple of octaves to the right, an exodus of alienated users scoured the internet for a new home. They eventually landed on Bluesky. ...
erasmus.github.io
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"ATProto's frictionless, cross-platform portability contains within it the threat of creating a negative competitive environment, a classic Moloch, that could drive the online conversation into more extreme trenches."
erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
@noupside.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team thoughts?
erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
@noupside.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team thoughts?
In this blog post, I argue #ATProto and its "platform fungibility" may inadvertently create a commercial environment, where we'll "race to the bottom of the brain stem".
➡️ erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
Please tell me all the ways in which I'm wrong.
➡️ erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
Please tell me all the ways in which I'm wrong.
Bluesky’s Great Social Splintering
When Elon transmogrified Twitter into X and so shifted the vibes a couple of octaves to the right, an exodus of alienated users scoured the internet for a new home. They eventually landed on Bluesky. ...
erasmus.github.io
July 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In this blog post, I argue #ATProto and its "platform fungibility" may inadvertently create a commercial environment, where we'll "race to the bottom of the brain stem".
➡️ erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
Please tell me all the ways in which I'm wrong.
➡️ erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
Please tell me all the ways in which I'm wrong.
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convened a group of people working on open source software that is intentionally designed to give people more power.
i took notes.
i took notes.
June 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
convened a group of people working on open source software that is intentionally designed to give people more power.
i took notes.
i took notes.
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Minimal and shade
“Road of lightness”
#photography #streetphotography
#cinematic #japan #streetphoto
#shadow #dark #tokyo #minimalism #silhouette #street #fineart #fineartphotography
“Road of lightness”
#photography #streetphotography
#cinematic #japan #streetphoto
#shadow #dark #tokyo #minimalism #silhouette #street #fineart #fineartphotography
May 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Minimal and shade
“Road of lightness”
#photography #streetphotography
#cinematic #japan #streetphoto
#shadow #dark #tokyo #minimalism #silhouette #street #fineart #fineartphotography
“Road of lightness”
#photography #streetphotography
#cinematic #japan #streetphoto
#shadow #dark #tokyo #minimalism #silhouette #street #fineart #fineartphotography
This report from Lund University's Psychological Defence Research Institute lays bare the structure of a large-scale disinformation campaign.
All the tricks of the trade: meme floods, lookalike websites, Telegram influencers, etc.
Wild.
www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/beyo...
All the tricks of the trade: meme floods, lookalike websites, Telegram influencers, etc.
Wild.
www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/beyo...
Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency
Lund University. Based on leaked documents, James Pamment and Darejan Tsurtsumia of PDRI have studied Russian malign information influence through the Doppelganger campaign and analysed the capabiliti...
www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se
May 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This report from Lund University's Psychological Defence Research Institute lays bare the structure of a large-scale disinformation campaign.
All the tricks of the trade: meme floods, lookalike websites, Telegram influencers, etc.
Wild.
www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/beyo...
All the tricks of the trade: meme floods, lookalike websites, Telegram influencers, etc.
Wild.
www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/beyo...
Wonderful portraits by balloonist/photographer #Nadar of #Liszt, #Hugo, #Dumas, #Sand, #Baudelaire, and some samurai.
worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-...
worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-...
There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more
worldhistory.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Wonderful portraits by balloonist/photographer #Nadar of #Liszt, #Hugo, #Dumas, #Sand, #Baudelaire, and some samurai.
worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-...
worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-...
A plane is not a bird, but the search for methods to mimic our wetware thought producer in silico is probably worth the while. And stimulating. pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
Continuous Thought Machines
Introducing Continuous Thought Machines: a new kind of neural network model that unfolds and uses neural dynamics as a powerful representation for thought.
pub.sakana.ai
May 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A plane is not a bird, but the search for methods to mimic our wetware thought producer in silico is probably worth the while. And stimulating. pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
Copenhagen morning mist
May 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Copenhagen morning mist
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If you're around Berlin after the conference, check out this fun community-organised event: User Agents Berlin - two days of space for hanging and hacking with friends you met at Local-First Conf! Register here: lu.ma/v457jxp2
USER * AGENTS * BERLIN · Luma
The User & Agents community invites you to come hang out and make things together for TWO WHOLE DAYS following Local-First Conf 2025 in Berlin!
We'll be coming…
lu.ma
May 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If you're around Berlin after the conference, check out this fun community-organised event: User Agents Berlin - two days of space for hanging and hacking with friends you met at Local-First Conf! Register here: lu.ma/v457jxp2
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this pitch for an open protocol for payments on the web using HTTP 402 is smart in being quiet about the crypto part, the word Coinbase doesn't appear anywhere
www.x402.org
www.x402.org
x402.org
A chain-agnostic protocol for web payments
www.x402.org
May 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
this pitch for an open protocol for payments on the web using HTTP 402 is smart in being quiet about the crypto part, the word Coinbase doesn't appear anywhere
www.x402.org
www.x402.org
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Just out in @politiken.dk: My interview on why Europe must urgently reclaim democratic control over its critical digital infrastructures from tech oligarchs. We need real digital sovereignty, not dependency.
#Eurostack #DigitalSovereignty
#Eurostack #DigitalSovereignty
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just out in @politiken.dk: My interview on why Europe must urgently reclaim democratic control over its critical digital infrastructures from tech oligarchs. We need real digital sovereignty, not dependency.
#Eurostack #DigitalSovereignty
#Eurostack #DigitalSovereignty
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*bird noises*
We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools.
We welcome contributions and feedback!
github.com/roostorg/awe...
We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools.
We welcome contributions and feedback!
github.com/roostorg/awe...
GitHub - roostorg/awesome-safety-tools: A curated collection of open source tools for online safety
A curated collection of open source tools for online safety - roostorg/awesome-safety-tools
github.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
*bird noises*
We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools.
We welcome contributions and feedback!
github.com/roostorg/awe...
We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools.
We welcome contributions and feedback!
github.com/roostorg/awe...
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why bluesky "feeds" don't work, a thread
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
why bluesky "feeds" don't work, a thread