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Frederik Paulus @surveilled.email · Jan 20
Book thread 2025

To track what I read this year...
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This company is worth a bazillion dollars and has billions of users, yet popular newsletters display in font size 10,000. smh.

#enshittification
A screenshot of the FirstFT newsletter in the gmail app on Android, in a font so large it’s uncomfortable to read.
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Without referring to it, this article points out why large models do not create art.

www.yankodesign.com/2025/12/16/r...
Remember “The Ghiblification”? We Treated Ghibli As Disposable Because That’s How We Treat Everything - Yanko Design
First, it was cottagecore, filling our feeds with sourdough starters and rustic linen. Then came the sharp, symmetrical pastels of the Wes Anderson trend, followed by a tidal wave of Barbie pink that ...
www.yankodesign.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Terrifying stuff.

www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Death is the policy
RFK Jr.‘s measles response is junk science and social Darwinism.
www.theverge.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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techwontsave.us
🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to vote!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
Bracket showing 32 names narrowed down to a top 8.
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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miaganga.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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peark.es
Fun story. For shares (ETFs or otherwise) to trade, you need market makers to provide a bid and offer price for you. The thing is, that takes capital...and there's a finite amount of it. There are so many ETFs now that market makers may have insufficient capital to provide liquidity in all of them.
RBC Warns of ‘Finite’ Market-Maker Capital For ETF Share Classes
Market-making firms in the $13 trillion exchange-traded fund industry may come under strain amid a potential wave of new listings in 2026, with US regulators poised to allow asset managers to offer ET...
www.bloomberg.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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transgenderreport.com
Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral

www.transvitae.com/w...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral
“I don’t hate trans people, but…” often precedes exclusion. This article explains how soft bigotry works and why words matter.
www.transvitae.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting. BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It always stretched credulity that oil & gas majors would transform into leading renewable energy players overnight.

www.ft.com/content/c6d7...
Inside the failed green revolutions at BP and Shell
How the energy giants tried to transform their businesses — but ended up dramatically scaling back those plans and writing off billions of dollars
www.ft.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
When men say things like “if you have a womb, you’re a woman,” I just assume they are the same type of guy as Jeffrey Epstein. This never fails me
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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alexip718.com
INBOX: James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida Governor who is accused by his competitor Rep. Byron Donald of statutory rape, released a campaign video today pledging "to make the trains run on time," a direct reference to the Fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini
James Fishback @j_fishback I'm running for Florida Governor to make the trains run on time.
December 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Apple Music’s Replay reel is nicely done.
December 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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glennf.com
Make a family code word. Ask for it. Don’t ever volunteer it when someone calls you. Make them say it to you.
erinbiba.bsky.social Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10d
This is actually a really common scam these days. A scammer will call and use AI to replicate a family member’s voice and the family member will sound distressed and having an emergency so you don’t have time to think. Best thing to do is hang up and call that family member “back” to confirm.
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you." I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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This week in Surveillance Log 010: complexity usually doesn't work; pro-natalism as a tenet of the far-right; and giving up on hard problems is better for your wellbeing.

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Surveillance Log 010 - 2025-12-12
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙ The...
buttondown.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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techcrunch.com
The massive data breach at the South Korean retail giant Coupang affects more than half of the country's population.
CEO of South Korean retail giant Coupang resigns after massive data breach | TechCrunch
The massive data breach at the South Korean retail giant Coupang affects more than half of the country's population.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session He has lost contact with his daughter - he does not even know what she got in her GCSEs - and now that she is 18, he no longer gets court-ordered medical updates. In the final one he learnt that she was booked in for surgery imminently. Now he drives over with birthday presents but is not allowed in. He remembers the last time he saw her, after she had started taking testosterone. Looking at his photographs, he remembers dropping her home: "When she said goodbye, her smile was the same girly shy smile she had as a little girl. Somewhere in there is my daughter."
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.

People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14d
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM