John Naughton
@jjn1.bsky.social
Academic,newspaper columnist (Observer), blogger (johnnaughton.substack.com), photographer, optimist (despite current state of world), author, co-founder of Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (mctd.ac.uk) at Cambridge
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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Barbara Streisand had the excuse she had never heard about the Barbara Streisand effect.
Excited to read this, just ordered my copy. wapo.st/4hzvSGB
Meta scrambled to silence a tell-all book. Now it’s a bestseller.
An arbitration ruling bars author Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir tarnishing Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg with what the social media giant says are lies.
wapo.st
March 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Barbara Streisand had the excuse she had never heard about the Barbara Streisand effect.
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The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.
March 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.
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And don't forget this clueless effing moron. youtube.com/shorts/ucpYt...
March 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
And don't forget this clueless effing moron. youtube.com/shorts/ucpYt...
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Delighted to announce that we are going to become an independent Department - the Bennett School of Public Policy - @cambridgeuni.bsky.social from this autumn. Thanks to all those who have supported us on our journey to this point - www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
Major new policy school at Cambridge University set to take on AI economy and reviving ‘left behind’ regions - Bennett Institute for Public Policy
The Bennett School of Public Policy opens this October, and is already leading work on two of the most pressing policy problems of our time: implementing AI and revitalising post-industrial areas.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk
March 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Delighted to announce that we are going to become an independent Department - the Bennett School of Public Policy - @cambridgeuni.bsky.social from this autumn. Thanks to all those who have supported us on our journey to this point - www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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Pubmed.gov is down. There are many outrages. This one is senseless, foolish, and a sign of a new dark age. A biostats friend wrote "This is akin to burning the libraries at Alexandria and Ninevah."
March 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Pubmed.gov is down. There are many outrages. This one is senseless, foolish, and a sign of a new dark age. A biostats friend wrote "This is akin to burning the libraries at Alexandria and Ninevah."
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#JenniferRubin at her best today. The Reckoning's a'coming open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Reality Counts
Markets Do Not Lie
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#JenniferRubin at her best today. The Reckoning's a'coming open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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'...before...Trump took office the first time in 2017, Transparency International ranked the United States among the top 20 countries in the world for least corrupt government. Now the United States has plunged in those rankings to its lowest level ever. We now have the same ranking as the Bahamas.'
Opinion | Trust Was Once an American Superpower
Undermining one of our country’s greatest and least-appreciated assets.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
'...before...Trump took office the first time in 2017, Transparency International ranked the United States among the top 20 countries in the world for least corrupt government. Now the United States has plunged in those rankings to its lowest level ever. We now have the same ranking as the Bahamas.'
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I drafted this post last night, when TSLA was at 331/share.
This morning, before publishing it, I updated the numbers. It had dropped to 311/share.
It's at 302 right now.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This morning, before publishing it, I updated the numbers. It had dropped to 311/share.
It's at 302 right now.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
a man pointing to a sign that says believe
Alt: Ted Lasso, "Believe."
media.tenor.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I drafted this post last night, when TSLA was at 331/share.
This morning, before publishing it, I updated the numbers. It had dropped to 311/share.
It's at 302 right now.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This morning, before publishing it, I updated the numbers. It had dropped to 311/share.
It's at 302 right now.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
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Annoying side effect of climate change is a growing sense that electrification of transport solves the problems with cars rather than leaving all the other problems with cars unchanged
February 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Annoying side effect of climate change is a growing sense that electrification of transport solves the problems with cars rather than leaving all the other problems with cars unchanged
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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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So complex but we need to understand that what is happening to our country has been designed by Thiel and others to destabilize our economy, our markets, and our future...they are not making America Great Again. They are making America their piggy bank.
A group of anonymous authors has published this well-sourced memorandum on Musk and the Neoreactionary movement. Please share widely. The threat is not well understood. Take a moment to read the one page executive summary now; then call Congress.
america2.news/content/file...
america2.news/content/file...
america2.news
February 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So complex but we need to understand that what is happening to our country has been designed by Thiel and others to destabilize our economy, our markets, and our future...they are not making America Great Again. They are making America their piggy bank.
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Yep, politics feels like a subset of tech right now
What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it
February 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Yep, politics feels like a subset of tech right now
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Commission publishes the Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence (AI) practices, as defined by the #AI Act!
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/c...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/c...
Commission publishes the Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence (AI) practices, as defined by the AI Act.
These guidelines provide an overview of AI practices that are deemed unacceptable due to their potential risks to European values and fundamental rights.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
February 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Commission publishes the Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence (AI) practices, as defined by the #AI Act!
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/c...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/c...
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Sharp criticism here from a French regulator over a former Amazon UK boss taking the role of interim chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority - from a Rana Foroohar column www.ft.com/content/7e37...
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sharp criticism here from a French regulator over a former Amazon UK boss taking the role of interim chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority - from a Rana Foroohar column www.ft.com/content/7e37...