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In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor a... See more

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

How Tyler Cowen Uses AI 1) Grok: Quick and effective for fact-checking tweets. 2) o1 Pro: Best for queries. His primary daily tool. 3) Deep Research: Ideal for long-form (10-page) reports; extremely impressive but less practical for personal routine; occasionally... See more

David Perell x.com

Tech CEOs warn the hiring boom is over as AI writes code, answers tickets and trims payrolls. Stanford data shows entry-level developer jobs sliding while only top specialists gain. Anthropic predicts 20% unemployment within 5 years. Microsoft cut 9,000, letting Copilot write 30% of its cod... See more

Rohan Paul

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While political filter bubbles silo users into opposing factions by disagreement, cultural recommendations bring them together toward the goal of building larger and larger…

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

The main point, though, is that control, as such, over others, will be exercised more and more through ambient forms of algorithmically mediated behavioral engineering, adaptive control systems programmed to nudge, herd, and condition populations toward the achievement of the policies and goals — monetary, sociocultural, militaristic, bio-political... See more

Peter Schmidt • Attention Machines and Future Politics

experimenting with self-governance in the streets.

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the outpu

Mandy Brown • Against Optimization

Robert Wright predicted one of its most important consequences. In his essay “Voice of America,” which appeared in the September 13, 1993, issue of the magazine the New Republic, Wright reported on his forays into Usenet, a set of online discussion groups

Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

The End of Social Media

Michael Mignano mignano.medium.com