en Thu, 21 May 2026 21:14:16 +0000 791 https://ifloz.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-to-come-to-america-mate Mon, 18 May 2026 10:31:52 +0000 question, then came in with the kill shot dressed up as polite analysis: “If you’re going to see regime change to stop this war, forget about seeing it in Iran. You need to see it in America.” --Pause on that for a second.That
is a Chinese academic, on British television, telling Piers Morgan that
the path to global stability runs not through Tehran but through
Washington. That the bloke in the Oval Office, the geriatric grift
artist with the Diet Coke button and the nuclear codes, is the
destabilising force. Not the Ayatollah. Not Xi. Not Putin. Not Kim. The
bankrupt steak salesman from Queens.And what’s wild is, he’s not wrong.]]> 790 https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet Thu, 14 May 2026 22:31:51 +0000 gut it for shareholders. Nobody can call an all-hands meeting and
explain that, going forward, the protocol will prioritize video.]]> 789 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:02:17 +0000 788 https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:29:04 +0000 787 https://www.medialens.org/2026/nuclear-genocide-the-threat-and-the-ceasefire/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:27:59 +0000 provoked a display of deep-seated solidarity and compassion that defied
decades of propaganda demonising the Iranian people as ‘animals’,
‘savages’ and ‘primitives’. Clearly, very few of us are willing to
tolerate the threat of nuclear genocide. In these grim times, when it
sometimes feels like humanity has completely lost its way, that is
something to celebrate."]]> 786 https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:24:15 +0000 assume a literate population; people who are willing to think in
abstract terms about the kind of world they want to live in. Without
that, democracy becomes a kind of tribal headcount, or a struggle for
state resources between competing patronage networks. This is what lies
behind a lot of the growing liberal panic over the decline of literacy.
For a growing chorus of people who write in the Atlantic,
we’re recoiling into pre-Enlightenment conditions of absolute
domination. A population that can no longer think for itself will end up
voluntarily ceding power to strongmen or demagogues. The end of
literacy is the end of public reason. A post-literate world will be
unreasonable, irrational, full of anger and madness, and people eating
each other in the streets."]]> 785 https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:47:46 +0000 car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the
morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and
reorganized your dashboard while you slept.]]> 784 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/shameless-guesses-not-hallucinations Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:01:58 +0000
AIs say false things for the same reason you do.

At least, I did. In school, I would take multiple choice tests. When I didn’t know the answer to a question, I would guess.]]> 783 https://tboteproject.com/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:59:20 +0000 782 https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/#autoplay-videos Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:11:59 +0000 fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of
delivering the service. It's not just that a chatbot charges less to
tell people to go fuck themselves than a human being – the chatbot
itself means "go fuck yourself." A chatbot is basically a "go fuck yourself" emoji. Perhaps this is why every AI icon looks like a butthole"]]> 781 https://www.medialens.org/2026/how-on-earth-do-you-justify-that-laura-kuenssbergs-selective-empathy/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:50:50 +0000 Enemies of the West, such as the Soviet Union (and now Russia), North
Korea or China. These victims garner considerable media attention in the
propaganda system, marked by sympathy, indignation and fury. Their
suffering is humanised, described in detail, and used to generate moral
outrage directed at the offending regimes or governments, often as part
of a concerted attempt to topple them for the benefit of Western
geostrategic interests.---



‘Unworthy’ victims, by contrast, are people who are killed or whose
democratic aspirations are crushed by the West or ‘our allies’; such as
Suharto’s Indonesia in the 1960s, Pinochet’s Chile in the 1970s, the
US-backed Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, and Israel in the
present day. These victims are less prominent, even absent, in western
media coverage or are often discounted as ‘collateral damage’: a lesser
kind of human, robbed of their individuality, their …]]> 780 https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:57:19 +0000
phase two is where they tighten the thumb screws a little to see if anyone leaves. probably involves adverts.]]> 779 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:37:16 +0000 share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no
algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years
studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you
should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in
1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American
journalism to get here."]]> 778 https://www.medialens.org/2026/operation-epic-fury-anatomy-of-a-war-of-aggression/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:56:42 +0000 777 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:06:25 +0000 776 https://www.medialens.org/2026/venezuela-war-is-peace/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:45:45 +0000 ‘mainstream’ media, which have shown zero interest in the people killed
and maimed. If US soldiers had died, we would know their names, faces,
army units, back stories, with spouses and parents expressing their
grief in heart-rending interviews. -- 



For ‘mainstream’ politics and media, the latest killing spree is just
another Groundhog Day. Maduro is not perceived as a particular
individual; he is perceived as the latest incarnation of the generic
‘Bad Guy’: Milosevic, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad,
Nasrallah and Sinwar. The Venezuelans are another anonymous crowd of
(mostly) brown-skinned people indistinguishable from Iraqis, Iranians,
Libyans, Syrians and Palestinians."]]> 775 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:25:09 +0000 774 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:02:36 +0000 773 https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr151-tiktok-wont-be-another-twitter/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:03:32 +0000 772 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql4Qk7iocik Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:12:01 +0000