Dustin Robinson
@whatsupwithdustin.bsky.social
Marketer, gamer, econ and geopolitics nerd, lover of all things pop culture.
Tering. Sommige mensen zijn blijkbaar HEEL boos dat wij grotendeels gestopt zijn met zwarte piet. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
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December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Tering. Sommige mensen zijn blijkbaar HEEL boos dat wij grotendeels gestopt zijn met zwarte piet. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
This is one of the wildest stories I have read all year, and this has been a WILD year.
This story is indeed bananas. The surrogacy client here seems to have no qualms about ruining one woman financially and ending the fertility of another. If she sounds like she has significant mental illness, yes she does—and also felt like she would come out well telling this to a reporter
I've read this story at least five times, and it has my jaw on the floor and sends shivers down my spine every! single! time!
Think you know a thing or two about the risks of surrogacy?
You have no idea.
From the @wired.com features team.
Think you know a thing or two about the risks of surrogacy?
You have no idea.
From the @wired.com features team.
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is one of the wildest stories I have read all year, and this has been a WILD year.
I don't know if this can be topped.
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I don't know if this can be topped.
All of this.
We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well.
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
All of this.
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Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You
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July 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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There just isn’t a lot of political science research that’s like “what happens when the king is also on Facebook all day”
July 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There just isn’t a lot of political science research that’s like “what happens when the king is also on Facebook all day”
I have been gleefully checking the @nytimes.com best 100 movies list each day for the latest batch. Finally got my own top ten sorted too.
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I have been gleefully checking the @nytimes.com best 100 movies list each day for the latest batch. Finally got my own top ten sorted too.
Cloud sovereignty feels like it's everywhere here in Europe right now. The US government can already demand access to any server, and there's a growing realization they could pull a stunt like simply pulling the plug on the whole thing. open.substack.com/pub/euregonn...
Why Everyone is Talking About Cloud Sovereignty
It rhymes with “trying to steal Beanland.”
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June 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Cloud sovereignty feels like it's everywhere here in Europe right now. The US government can already demand access to any server, and there's a growing realization they could pull a stunt like simply pulling the plug on the whole thing. open.substack.com/pub/euregonn...
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An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
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“The platforms were no longer social, in any meaningful sense of the word, but rather centralized and exercising constant (algorithmic) editorial discretion.”
Thought this piece was quite astute 👇
Thought this piece was quite astute 👇
Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.
June 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“The platforms were no longer social, in any meaningful sense of the word, but rather centralized and exercising constant (algorithmic) editorial discretion.”
Thought this piece was quite astute 👇
Thought this piece was quite astute 👇
Yessssssss!
June 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yessssssss!
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Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
June 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
An expected result of the rise in AI search tools is that it is incentivizing PR teams to engage more with journalists rather than bypass them and go straight to feckless podcast bros. #AI #media #PR euregonnalovethis.substack.com/p/ai-is-pote...
May 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
An expected result of the rise in AI search tools is that it is incentivizing PR teams to engage more with journalists rather than bypass them and go straight to feckless podcast bros. #AI #media #PR euregonnalovethis.substack.com/p/ai-is-pote...
I feel like everything is either AI or protein now. We’ve hit the point in the hype cycle where both businesses and consumers are amplifying each other’s FOMO to the point where the value of the product, be it protein or AI, has lost all meaning. euregonnalovethis.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything is AI or Protein Now
What a Candybar Says About Where Marketing is These Days
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May 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I feel like everything is either AI or protein now. We’ve hit the point in the hype cycle where both businesses and consumers are amplifying each other’s FOMO to the point where the value of the product, be it protein or AI, has lost all meaning. euregonnalovethis.substack.com/p/everything...
Nooooooooooo! No! No! No!
Blumhouse, the horror studio, teamed with Meta to experiment with a technology called Movie Mate. It’s a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones as they watch films in movie theaters.
Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
Blumhouse, the horror movie studio, has teamed up with Meta on a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones while watching a movie.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Nooooooooooo! No! No! No!
The AI optimization arms race has begun.
OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google
OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry, the company's search product lead, to ask how it all works.
www.wired.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The AI optimization arms race has begun.
Just like second screen viewing makes for dumber television it makes for shittier meetings, creating a doom loop that's a race to the bottom. open.substack.com/pub/euregonn...
The Meetings Are Coming From Inside the House
Second screens are turning meetings into a horror show.
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just like second screen viewing makes for dumber television it makes for shittier meetings, creating a doom loop that's a race to the bottom. open.substack.com/pub/euregonn...
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Vanavond doen we Koningsdag nog eens dunnetjes over! Want het is HOLLANDSE AVOND in #CHATEAUPROMENADE! 21.05 op NPO3 Kijk je ook?
April 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Vanavond doen we Koningsdag nog eens dunnetjes over! Want het is HOLLANDSE AVOND in #CHATEAUPROMENADE! 21.05 op NPO3 Kijk je ook?
This could have been a Lex Friedman interview. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
April 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This could have been a Lex Friedman interview. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
A lot of people blame Europe’s lack of major tech players on taxes and the social safety net, but a lot of the best performing countries here have higher taxes. The problem in Europe isn’t taxes, it’s capital. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Unicorns Don’t Grow on Crash Diets
The data is clear: tax rates and social safety nets aren’t holding Europe back. A lack of capital is.
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April 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A lot of people blame Europe’s lack of major tech players on taxes and the social safety net, but a lot of the best performing countries here have higher taxes. The problem in Europe isn’t taxes, it’s capital. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Rewatching season 1 of Andor. It hits different in 2025.
April 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Rewatching season 1 of Andor. It hits different in 2025.
Never in a million years could I have imagined a protest like this in my home state.
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Never in a million years could I have imagined a protest like this in my home state.