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Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune

fortune.com · Feb 05

The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

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almondtree (@almondtree) · Feb 08
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

Shawn Graham (@electricarchaeo) · Feb 08
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

The Boxing Kangaroo (@platypusparent) · Feb 08
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

mgiraldo (@mgiraldo) · Feb 08
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

Christian Peach (@chpietsch) · Feb 08
🔁 @sixtus:

Mit wem genau haben die CDU und die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg einen Vertrag über Polizeisoftware geschlossen, der sensibelste persönliche Informationen berührt? Ach mit ihm hier, ja?
fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

Abie (@temptoetiam) · Feb 09
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

DoomsdaysCW (@DoomsdaysCW) · Feb 08
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

Victator (@vicfroh) · Feb 08
🔁 @fromjason:

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-t

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NBC’s muting of boos for JD Vance at the Olympics felt like reality distortion

theguardian.com · Feb 08

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

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Bruce MacDonald (@rationaldoge) · Feb 08

"Broadcasters do not operate in a vacuum; they operate inside regulatory environments, political climates and corporate risk calculations. When presidents and their allies openly threaten or target networks, it is naive to pretend that has no downstream effect on editorial choices – especially in high-stakes live broadcasts tied to billion-dollar rights deals.

"But there is a difference between contextual pressure and visible reality distortion. When global audiences can compare feeds in real time, the latter begins to resemble something else entirely: not editorial judgment, but narrative management. Which is why comparisons to Soviet-style state-controlled broadcasting models – once breathless rhetorical exaggerations – are starting to feel less hyperbolic."

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb

#broadcasting #television #AudioMixing

kim_harding ✅ (@kim_harding) · Feb 08

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

C Z Doval Santos (@czds) · Feb 08

So that’s why @jadp and I hardly heard the “ boo “ 👉🏻 “ NBC appears to cut crowd's booing of'JD Vance from Winter Olympicsbroadcast “ theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb

int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...) (@nrmacdonald) · Feb 08
🔁 @Wen:

It is not going to end well. Orwell (sorry but he was on the ball so to speak) got it right.

theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb

If a US administration figure is booed at the Olympics, or a World Cup match, will American domestic broadcasts simply mute or avoid mentioning the crowd audio? If so, what happens when the world feed, or a foreign broadcaster, shows something else entirely? What happens when 40,000 phones in the stadium upload their own version in real time?

#USPol #Censorship #Trump

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Moltbook was peak AI theater

technologyreview.com · Feb 06

The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

Shared by @kubikpixel and 19 others.
Stop That (@stopthatgirl7) · Feb 08
🔁 @Techmeme:

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com/2026/02/0
techmeme.com/260208/p18#a26020

𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕 (@kubikpixel) · Feb 09
🔁 @kubikpixel:

Artificial intelligence — Moltbook was peak AI theater

The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

🤖 technologyreview.com/2026/02/0

#moltbook #ai #socialnetwork #bots #peek #theater #again #noai #aitheater #viralsocialmedia

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 09
🔁 @Techmeme:

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com/2026/02/0
techmeme.com/260208/p18#a26020

Christian Peach (@chpietsch) · Feb 08
🔁 @Techmeme:

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com/2026/02/0
techmeme.com/260208/p18#a26020

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(AI) Slop Terrifies Me – ezhik.jp

ezhik.jp · Feb 08

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

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Internet Hedgehog 🦔 (@Ezhik) · Feb 08
🔁 @lproven:

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

jeancf (@jeancf) · Feb 08
🔁 @Ezhik:

Wrote a post about some AI worries of mine. I think people no longer caring about the craft scares me more than people using gork and stuff.

ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

*|FNAME|*:canada:🇬🇱🇺🇦 (@crispius) · Feb 08
🔁 @lproven:

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

soup (@hotsoup) · Feb 08
🔁 @lproven:

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

Liam Proven (@lproven) · Feb 08

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

John Pell (@gaelicWizard) · Feb 09
🔁 @Ezhik:

Wrote a post about some AI worries of mine. I think people no longer caring about the craft scares me more than people using gork and stuff.

ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

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Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

localghost.dev · Feb 08

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

Shared by @gustav and 28 others.
Virginie (@Maker) · Feb 08
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

rubenwardy (@rubenwardy) · Feb 08
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Myles Lewando (@codemacabre) · Feb 08
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Christophe B. :android: (@bladecoder) · Feb 09
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

PositivDenken 🤯 (@zeank) · Feb 09
🔁 @dominik:

Very much this. And maybe start caring as well. This might be the main problem: many people just don't care.

localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Hidde (@hdv) · Feb 09
🔁 @robb:

⭐ Stop Generating, Start Thinking by @sophie localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Sophie is much smarter than me and she's written the post I had in my mind but would never be able to articulate as well as this.

"So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking. Nothing good can come from software nobody has thought about."

∞ rknight.me/links/stop-generati

EchoFeed Amplify (@echofeedamplify) · Feb 09
🔁 @robb:

⭐ Stop Generating, Start Thinking by @sophie localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Sophie is much smarter than me and she's written the post I had in my mind but would never be able to articulate as well as this.

"So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking. Nothing good can come from software nobody has thought about."

∞ rknight.me/links/stop-generati

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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare

siddhantkhare.com · Feb 08

You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

Shared by @jn and 21 others.
Hacker News (@hacker_news_bot) · Feb 08

📜 Latest Top Story on #HackerNews: AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it
🔍 Original Story: siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f
👤 Author: sidk24
⭐ Score: 14
💬 Number of Comments: 5
🕒 Posted At: 2026-02-08 14:19:32 UTC
🔗 URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
#hackernewsbot #hackernews #ai #bot #news

Ecologia Digital (@josemurilo) · Feb 09
🔁 @eliasulrich:

"After #AI, my job increasingly became: prompt, wait, read output, evaluate output, decide if output is correct, decide if output is safe, decide if output matches the architecture, fix the parts that don't, re-prompt, repeat. I became a #reviewer. A #judge. A quality #inspector on an assembly line that never stops."

siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f

Xamanismo Coletivo (@eliasulrich) · Feb 09

"After #AI, my job increasingly became: prompt, wait, read output, evaluate output, decide if output is correct, decide if output is safe, decide if output matches the architecture, fix the parts that don't, re-prompt, repeat. I became a #reviewer. A #judge. A quality #inspector on an assembly line that never stops."

siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f

leighelse{} (@leighelse) · Feb 08

Writing software with artificial intelligence is exhausting, and it destroys the ability to reason.

siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f

'Nobody posts "I spent 3 hours trying to get Claude to understand my database schema and eventually gave up and wrote the migration by hand." Nobody posts "AI-generated code caused a production incident because it silently swallowed an error." Nobody posts "I'm tired."'

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How Prince won the Super Bowl - Anil Dash

anildash.com · Feb 09

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

Johnnyvibrant (@johnnyvibrant) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) (@joecardillo) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (@juandesant) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

Trending Bot (@trending) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

Shannon Prickett (@Binder) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

Brian Vastag (@brianvastag) · Feb 09
🔁 @anildash:

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pr 

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Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt

theguardian.com · Feb 08

Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (@LillyHerself) · Feb 08
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

The Guardian MEWS 📰 (@guardian) · Feb 08

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
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#ZohranMamdaniMEWS #NewYorkMEWS #UsWeatherMEWS #UsNewsMEWS #WorldNewsMEWS #UsPoliticsMEWS #MEWS
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Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally d...

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 08
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 08
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

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Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

theverge.com · Feb 08

It’s the most beloved and reviled law of the tech industry.

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ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Feb 08
🔁 @SuffolkLITLab:

TL;DR: As Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act marks its 30th anniversary, it faces significant scrutiny and challenges, reflecting its pivotal role in shaping the modern internet amidst ongoing debates surrounding online accountability. theverge.com/policy/875300/sec #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

TWiT News Feed (@twitnews) · Feb 08

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet - theverge.com/policy/875300/sec

[Megaphone tangled up in barbed wire.]

Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill
credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and
set...

#twit

The Verge :bot: @theverge.space (@theverge) · Feb 08
🔁 @lauren_feiner:

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

The law has survived the dot-com bubble and the Supreme Court, but it’s up against potentially larger challenges.

LisaH (@3x10to8mps) · Feb 09
🔁 @Techmeme:

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

theverge.com/policy/875300/sec
techmeme.com/260208/p19#a26020

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