“It is as if all the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess, in one chaotic weekend.” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Liz Carolan: Migrants pay a deadly price in Ceuta disinformation disaster

All the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan

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“Influencers today are a bit like plastic surgeons, or plumbers: On a societal level, many people sure seem to like what they do—they just don’t necessarily want to be right next to them while they’re doing it.” joinspread.com/post/4694a45...

Verify to Access: The Extras Are Tired

The Atlantic

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"Spend enough time in Beijing and Washington these days and the rivalry looks less like a clash of competing systems than like a race between small oligarchic groups—tight circles of men with immense power over everyone else’s future." joinspread.com/post/559b2b0...

Verify to Access: The Future, Made in China

The New Yorker

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"If you have been reading about the latest AI advances in (or on) maths, this is essential reading. And you don't need to be a mathematician to feel deeply moved by it." kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n...

The Dark Night of Mathematics

What are we really doing?

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“If you want to spot AI writing, look for bland, pretentious prose lavished with Latinate words—at least for now. With every update, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose.” economist.com/culture/2026...

How to spot AI writing

Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?

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“To see ourselves clearly, we don’t use mirrors. We use relationships.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Opinion | FaceTime, Zoom and Ring Cameras Are Warping Our Reality (Gift Article)

Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.

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“Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

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We know what we fear A.I. will do to us. But what do we hope it will do for us? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands

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The skill I value most is the ability to describe the future in a way that offers people a tangible sense of their own agency. That’s why I’ve written this book, a personal journey through the rise and fall and rebirth of the human internet. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/TheLastGoodD...

“Thirty minutes into this trip through his career, Mr. Musk said the goal of Neuralink, his start-up that aims to implant computer chips in people’s heads, is “A.I. safety.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/t...

OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years

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"Welcome to the Technological Republic" A piece of AI-generated agit-prop for the ages. youtu.be/hstZm7fQ-nI

Ari K - HONEST PALANTIR MANIFESTO

YouTube video by dalu

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"Doom and gloom messaging was highly effective for stimulating climate change information sharing, like posting on the internet or social media .. but the absolute worst for motivating action and among the worst for changing climate change beliefs" www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-best-w...

The best way to frame climate change communications

Lessons from one of the largest experiments on climate change behavior + a new initiative from MythBusters' Jamie Hyneman

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“The feed moves at the speed of humor. War does not. And when every crisis arrives as content, the real danger is not that people laugh but that they no longer know what they are looking at.” www.wired.com/story/war-me...

War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content

The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.

wired.com

"Trump seems to thrive at being in the cockpit of history because it grants him omnipresence. My sense is that omnipresence is more important to him than omnipotence." historyneverended.substack.com/p/jesus-of-m...

"Jesus of Mar-a-Lago", and the questions it raises for the media.

Why the press should speak out about more about the president's mental state.

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New study found approximately 35 percent of all new websites are either AI-generated or AI-assisted. The same study also found that online writing is “increasingly sanitized and artificially cheerful.” www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

“In a system where synthetic content moves faster than it can be verified, the only real defense may be behavioral: hesitation. A pause before the repost. A few minutes of scrutiny in a system designed to reward none.” www.wired.com/story/how-th...

How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

wired.com

💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

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53% of the votes in #Tisza likely is growing if correct we are in landslide territory. #Hungary votes

Olga Onuch@oonuch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

45.7% of the votes in and #Tisza lead seems* to be growing. #Hungary votes

Tisza now at 132 seats, one seat away from supermajority.

With 37% of the vote in, the Hungarian opposition is on the verge of winning the 2/3 supermajority in the legislature to overturn Orban's changes to the constitution. They need 133 seats for a supermajority. They're currently projected for 132. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

An awful lot of blue in these early results from Hungary. Shaping up to be a big night vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filt...

Nemzeti Választási Iroda - Országgyűlési képviselők választása

Választási szervek - Nemzeti Választási Iroda

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“The meme magic era Trump rode in on is long gone … They’ve completely misunderstood the internet generation; the second you post cringe content, you’re done.” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“We will explore. We will build. We will build ships. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers. We will do radio astronomy … But ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other” Astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission www.facebook.com/reel/1458839...

BREAKING: Artemis II astronauts are more than 248,655 miles from Earth, breaking Apollo 13's record for the greatest distance humans have traveled from the planet.

Live updates: Astronauts swing around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission

Follow live updates as NASA's Artemis II crew members circle the moon in the Orion spacecraft. The astronauts lifted off last week and are expected to come within 4,070 miles of the lunar surface.

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“Once the links between citizen and conflict have been severed, you can tell yourself whatever story you want about who you are and what you are doing in the world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...

America Is Used to Hiding Its Wars. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.

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Buying a new media brand beloved of those most passionate about the acceleration of AI is not a serious bid to shape wider public opinion. This is a shiny megaphone pointed at those building the future, not a good-faith effort to engage those who will live it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI buys tech talkshow TBPN in push to shape AI narrative

OpenAI’s chief of strategy says acquisition of show will help company engage with public about AI as it evolves

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“Gen Z didn’t choose digital overload. They inherited it. But they are now doing something no previous generation has done: deliberately dismantling the attention economy from the inside” fortune.com/2026/04/01/g...

Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it's at least a $5 billion opportunity | Fortune

Why millions of digitally native young people are ditching smartphones, deleting apps, and rediscovering the real world

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“Trump’s net approval … roughly matches Joe Biden’s nadir after his disastrous debate performance in 2024, when many Americans concluded he was unfit for office.” The Economist