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• A Tool That Crushes Creativity – The Atlantic

  December 15, 2025

  AI slop is winning. https://share.google/SaDMztL1AxYc6fikO more ›

• Inside YouTube’s Impact on TV, Sports and Late-Night Comedy Shows

  December 15, 2025

  In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and… more ›

• Andrew Ross Sorkin: The Lesson of 1929 – The Atlantic

  December 15, 2025

  Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/andrew-ross-sorkin-lesson-1929/684546/ more ›

• Microsoft Asked FBI for Help With Israel-Gaza Protests

  December 15, 2025

  Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week. Executive Brad Smith said he welcomed discussion but not disruption. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/microsoft-asked-fbi-for-help-with-israel-gaza-protests?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NjIyMDc1MCwiZXhwIjoxNzU2ODI1NTUwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMUxMOEpHUFFRR1UwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOENBMUZGREZGMEI0M0E1ODRENTk5MEQ3NDAwNDkzMCJ9.ZxRrVJ29dvRDmuie-Z8dWFKR1_o_HzD4hLa-kAzRlVc&leadSource=uverify%20wall more ›

• The Brazilianization of the World – American Affairs Journal

  December 14, 2025

  The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches… more ›

• The Decline of Deviance

  December 14, 2025

  Where has all the weirdness gone? https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-decline-of-deviance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• The Vergecast: The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions

  December 14, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/06Q1Bhd A year ago, David and Nilay sat down with Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to make a bunch of confident predictions about 2025. We got… more ›

• Africa’s AI Productivity Gain – Pathways to Labour Efficiency, Economic Growth and Inclusive Transformation

  December 14, 2025

  Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to deliver transformational gains for Africa’s economies. If developed and deployed inclusively, AI could generate up to US $1 trillion in additional GDP by… more ›

• Intelligence Squared Member (🔓): Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar

  December 14, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/SGo2MEn Mikhail Zygar is a renowned Russian dissident journalist living in exile in the USA. He was the founding editor-in-chief of independent news channel TV Rain in Russia. He… more ›

• Past Present Future: Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid

  December 14, 2025

  Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w2rGct1HE074Prd6xYFrg?si=6vpXyd0tTvCEMawFYfGNaw Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade that… more ›