Why the press conference of the California governor looks like any opposition event in Moscow I was at 🤡 The speed of democratic backsliding is insane. By any logic such intimidation should not be happening this early, especially to a governor

How long ago did Google main page became so propagandistic? I never use search and I was shocked now when I did, I am having authoritarian flashbacks

Are we sure that TikTok is selling its US segment finally (per recent reports)? They are hiring too many policy people, inc. on state level, for a company that is supposedly leaving the market

My Harvard school is basically opening a second campus in Canada this fall. Wild times.

Got a spread at Sunday’s edition of New York Times! You can read for free using the gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

Times so weird that our Harvard graduation ceremony is at the same time that Harvard has a court hearing on cancelling all of our visas. We will probably know the decision while still at the ceremony. Insane.

It will be funny if in a few years people start to get arrested for wearing Harvard symbols. I wish I was joking but I have half of a suitcase with symbols that were perfectly normal in late 2010s and are now extremist / terrorist / undesirable and probably most samples are destroyed.

My piece on 100 days of Trump on how the end of USAID will provoke global instability: 1) much of the autocratic world will go into darkness; 2) predicting international security crises will be difficult; 3) Russia & China will fill the vacuum with disinformation.
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

New week, new authoritarian term to learn. Telephone law — a Soviet / Russian custom where court or parliamentary decisions aren’t based on justice or legal principles but on a phone call from “above” (authorities).

For those, who left X, I am bringing you gold from Michael McFaul

Well, I don’t know about Portland, but I cannot find eggs anywhere in Boston for the last two week. What is this, Soviet Union? I want them back, thank you very much

As many others, I noticed that my TikTok algorithm changed after Trump took office. The content became generic. As if I were on Instagram, X or LinkedIn.
I stopped seeing political news, LGBTQ content and even Taylor Swift. Instead, to my horror, algorithm showed me Trump’s granddaughter.

Chinese DeepSeek model: “Putin has personality cult” 😧

I am on the mobile version of the website… Are you using VPN..? I have US as location. That is so weird
Look what it says to me now about Putin… like even ChatGPT does not answer like that. Did they only scrapped Russian independent media or what

Mine is working!! I just doubled checked. Looks like yours just stopped responding to anything, not this particular request

I love how AI creators forget that other languages exist. DeepSeek, that is politically censored in English&Chinese, is super democratic in Russian: it claims that “Chinese authorities brutally suppressed” protests at Tiananmen and that “all information is censored”, it also calls Putin an autocrat.

It seems that American TikTok is blocking some requests about Trump. When asking about him and 10yo girl, I get “this phrase may… violate…”When I do the same using VPN from EU, I get videos (“Trump tells 10-year-girl they’ll date”)
Screenshots are mine, original idea: vt.tiktok.com/ZS6bGJ5fv/