After a year and a half, the Trump administration has found no evidence of the “censorship-industrial-complex,” @anneapplebaum writes. When examined closely, it disappeared “like a soap bubble that vanishes with the touch of a hand”:
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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
Data Centers Are a Distraction What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty.
NYTimes: Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******* People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Regulation alone won’t fix the social web, @ibogost writes. But limiting how much people can talk on it could.
***** Iran Unleashed
“Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf,” Robert Kagan argues. The world will now “discover what Iran unleashed looks like.”
NYTimes: Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did
Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/opinion/twitter-x-woke-1-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
NYTimes: Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop.
Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/surveillance-pricing-data-companies.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Why Do Rich Kids Love Socialism?
Rather than elevating leaders who pretend to be working-class, socialists should present “themselves as what they mostly are: worried, frustrated, and often justifiably angry members of the educated professional class,” @Tyler_A_Harper argues. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/socialism-rich-kids-gordillo/688382/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYUFOsEbjmAxPCTZnP9x9GXM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social