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Falk Rehkopf
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Falk Rehkopf @falkrehkopf.com · 15d
Most leadership advice treats language as etiquette.

This piece treats it as power.

It examines why profanity sometimes sharpens authority rather than undermining it, and why the same words elevate some leaders while damaging others.

More here: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/when-po...
When Powerful Leaders Say “Fuck This” — Falk Rehkopf
When control becomes counterproductive, carefully chosen profanity can signal decisive leadership moments. Research shows that because senior leaders swear rarely, intentional use carries weight, whil...
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Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets ft.trib.al/lSK8Xa5
Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets
Start-up’s bet on enterprise users is paying off as coding tools fuel revenue and investor frenzy
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February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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edzitron.com
One of the more maddening ai bubble weeks crested by headlines that just say “Jensen Huang says actually the buildout is sustainable.” What’s he gonna say? “Nah dude Blackwell will never pay for itself sorry lol”

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/n...
Nvidia shares rise 8% as Jensen Huang says $660 billion capex buildout is sustainable
Huang's comments come after key Nvidia customers Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft reported their latest earnings over the past two weeks.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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aidanwalker.bsky.social
it goes without saying the kamala hq rebrand is hollow, hopeless, and a likely flop from an internet culture perspective
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
one of my favorite eps @aidanwalker.bsky.social walked me through the rise of Clavicular & the nihlist-by-default livestreamer culture. if you want to understand what we are up against here & what happens when making content becomes your only ideology this was v enlightening youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?...
The Internet’s New Extremists Don’t Even Believe in Politics
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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February 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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techmeme.com
Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE to accommodate local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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financialtimes.com
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe ft.trib.al/rg4IDIC
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
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February 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.

It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.

My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
www.thenerve.news
February 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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simonwillison.net
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The Washington Post Dies in Daylight
Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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daphnek.bsky.social
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.

This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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aidanwalker.bsky.social
when will we as a society progress past the need for a yuval noah harari
February 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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joniaskola.bsky.social
Proper regulation of social media in Europe is what the Trump administration and its fascist supporters fear most
February 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
falkrehkopf.com
Clark's piece brilliantly captures emerging agent ecologies but defeatistically accepts human alienation ('translation agents to retain legibility'). Why build systems designed to exclude human understanding rather than architect for legibility by design?
jack-clark.net/2026/02/02/i...
Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import A-Idea:An occasional e…
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February 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
My main feeling about Moltbook is that a lot of things are going to happen in the next few years that make us say "something just like this happened on Moltbook" www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-...
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
www.platformer.news
February 3, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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simonwillison.net
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
simonwillison.net
January 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
“One of my general rules of thumb for online content conception, especially as it relates to the news, is to only take the poison I have the antidote for.”
How to Survive the Information War
There’s more information than ever—and that could be a good thing.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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financialtimes.com
The investment bubble that has already burst ft.trib.al/L75hhZU | opinion
The investment bubble that has already burst
Concerns over AI stocks are widespread — but we rarely describe net zero in these terms
ft.trib.al
January 31, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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rollingstone.com
The world is mourning the death of Catherine O’Hara.

🥹 bit.ly/4c0u7D0
January 31, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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financialtimes.com
Eurozone unexpectedly grows by 0.3% in fourth quarter ft.trib.al/EBSyTut
Eurozone unexpectedly grows by 0.3% in fourth quarter
Bloc’s performance in the face of geopolitical and trade tensions has surprised policymakers
ft.trib.al
January 30, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
really good piece by @aidanwalker.bsky.social on the "nihilism by default" embodied by influencers like clavicular and nick fuentes and consumed by younger zoomers who've never known anything other than an online, politically fucked world

howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/clavicular...
Part of the audience pleasure, to my mind, comes from this knowledge: both Clavicular and Fuentes are entirely dependent on their viewers. Much has been made about the sadomaschocistic dynamic between Fuentes and the “pay pigs” that listen to him and take his verbal abuse on stream, but the manipulation goes both ways. For each of these men, there is no meaningful relationship in their lives other than the one with their audience. They are purely devoted to a constituency of slimy, broken people in the way that nuns are married to Christ. And each of these men, at this point, could never get a normal job. So all of their actions should be assessed as the moves of a man with his back to the wall and a loaded gun pointed at his head: they are desperate, and kept in a state of desperation by an attention economy that needs them to be in that position, by a transgression curve that calls for ever-more horrendous stunts. Each man is a kind of martyr. They inflict suffering on themselves to prove devotion to something immaterial. Like the mystic self-flagellating, or the stigmatic continually reopening the wounds on their hands so they remain gory for the faithful to see, Clavicular and Fuentes turn their lives, their bodies, into material proof of an abstract principle’s power. They strike, isolate, scar, and maim themselves to illustrate the supremacy of the simulation and its digital representations over the reality which their audience loathes.
January 28, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
Authors of a big new study on teens and social media say that Australia-style bans won't help. But that misses the mounting evidence of direct harms that platforms cause countless kids: www.platformer.news/social-media...
The next time you go to Las Vegas, you’ll notice that there are no 13-year-olds in the casinos. The reason is not because a series of longitudinal studies proved to the satisfaction of the gaming industry that gambling causes anxiety and depression. Rather, there are no 13-year-olds in casinos because we know that the environment is designed to exploit them. Research like the Manchester study can offer important insights into narrow questions. But it would be a mistake to rely on it to set policy. For that you need the full picture, and the full picture of children’s experience on social media over the past decade is damning.
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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financialtimes.com
The end of the world as we know it (but I feel fine) ft.trib.al/3VCWZLI | opinion
The end of the world as we know it (but I feel fine)
There’s a curious gap between our personal optimism and our gloominess about others
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January 28, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
falkrehkopf.com
The article treats Palantir as a neutral technical achievement, but when did optimizing for 'mission-critical government deployments' become divorced from questions about whose missions, which targets, and when this scales across an authoritarian-friendly tech sector?

substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Palantir-ization of everything
Pairing enterprise software with high-touch delivery
substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:43 AM