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The Aristobots
SUNDAY READ: For centuries, we defined ourselves by work. Artificial intelligence is making that less plausible. AQL offers a seditious — but possibly…
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Dan Perry
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It Will Be Algorithmically Amplified, If Profitable.
A major victory has occurred in humanity's effort to save itself from social media
Mar 26
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Dan Perry
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My Interview with JournoBot
On the strategic drift in the US-Israeli war against Iran's regime
Mar 14
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Dan Perry
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The Focus Group That Never Sleeps
How synthetic citizens are about to transform decision-making
Mar 4
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Dan Perry
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Read Zuck the Riot Act
Convictions, algorithm regulation, titanic fines, and teen bans are needed to focus the minds of the arrogant tech oligarchs
Feb 19
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Dan Perry
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The Bubble and the Boom
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: AI is both a speculative surge and a brutally real transition. Which will be the story that sticks?
Dec 21, 2025
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Dan Perry
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A Feed Too Far
Plans to demand years of social media from visitors are accelerating America’s self-inflicted collapse as an open, admired society
Dec 18, 2025
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Dan Perry
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The World Needs Europe to Rein In Social Media Before It Breaks Us All
With Washington captured and other democracies too small to matter, only the EU has the power to force platforms to stop profiting from division and…
Dec 12, 2025
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Dan Perry
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Fake Social
What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do…
Nov 24, 2025
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Dan Perry
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CheatGPT? OpenAI’s Awkward Moment
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: A weekend briefing on artificial intelligence (is it time to start learning about universal basic income?).
Nov 22, 2025
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Dan Perry
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The Avatar of Avarice
Elon Musk organizes another trillion dollars for himself, courtesy of troubled Tesla. How can it possibly be? The answer lies in the utter madness that…
Nov 20, 2025
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Dan Perry
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Europe Strikes Back at Russia’s Hybrid War
ALISON MUTLER WRITES: The EU unveils its Democracy Shield, showing that in a fragmented world with fading US leadership Europe may now be the only actor…
Nov 13, 2025
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