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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

• The current moment of AI doomerism reminds me so much of the millenarian, apocalyptic thinking of evangelical Christianity it’s uncanny I think it’s safe to say that the Singularity was modeled directly after the Apocalypse/Tribulation/Rapture/End Times, whether consciously or unconsciously This isn’t widely known, but the bestselling nonfiction book of the entire 1970s was Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth. It claimed to predict the imminent end times by mapping biblical prophecy to current events, like Israel’s founding as a state, the Soviet Union, and nuclear weapons He predicted…

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Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

• ShortMême en pleine tempête, le Canada et l’Union européenne peuvent garder le cap.

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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• sketchers already distilling the union alpha model
  Quoting@stolinskieveryone is guessing about this model, but i have an exclusive here

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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

• When we need courage and strength, I believe we should look to our children. In them we will find the purest passion for life. Ukrainian children are a powerful example of this. In the State of Union I will talk about a story that profoundly moved me. 🗓️ 16.09.2026

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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

• The next frontier of security and defence is right above us. And we need sharp eyes in the sky to protect us and our allies. In the State of the Union, I will tell the story of innovators that make our Union a safer place. 🗓️ 16.09.2026

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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

• We do not have to accept childhoods shaped by algorithms. We do not have to accept a system that fails our children. Europe has the power to act. To give children the time they need in the real world. I will detail our proposal in my upcoming State of the Union address.

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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

• Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers. https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/ #Wikipedia #WikimediaFoundation

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

• This piece is out! 4 sites, 10 days, and 6000 words on the politics of data centers in the Midwest: https://t.co/uOL7vmf3wC I talked to union leaders and real estate brokers, activists and local officials, politicians from Kathy Hochul to Abdul El-Sayed. A few takeaways: - Activists are as pissed at their local officials as at AI companies - The bigger the dollar signs, the more skeptical people are - Past corporate failures (Foxconn, GM, DTE) prime community distrust - Even data center proponents regret the NDAs - Media narratives turn local grievances into national movements - Residents fea…
  Quoting@jasminewsunI’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiting sites, talking to tons of people — tradespeople, activists, planners, residents — then writing up a story lmk what questions I should dig into!

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Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.

• Die @cducsubt-Fraktion hat @thorsten_frei zum neuen Vorsitzenden gewählt. Lieber Thorsten, mit Dir gewinnt unsere Fraktion einen erfahrenen und verantwortungsvollen Vorsitzenden. Ich gratuliere Dir herzlich zu deiner überzeugenden Wahl. Ich freue mich auf die weitere erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit für die Union und unser Land!

  English, from GermanThe @cducsubt parliamentary group has elected @thorsten_frei as the new chairman. Dear Thorsten, with you, our parliamentary group gains an experienced and responsible chairman. I congratulate you warmly on your convincing election. I look forward to our continued successful cooperation for the Union and our country!

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• BlueskyThe EU AI Office has put out a new report, with input from 100 experts, outlining how the European Union can enhance its competitiveness, sovereignty and security in frontier AI.

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• x.comThe EU AI Office has put out a new report, with input from 100 experts, outlining how the European Union can enhance its competitiveness, sovereignty and security in frontier AI.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

• data center road trip // day 2-3 - Port Washington has faced intense protests and a mayoral recall over their data center. residents cite environment and aesthetics, but are fine with the power plant in the middle of town - Mount Pleasant officials were relieved to have Microsoft build, filling the $100m+ debt hole left by the failed Foxconn project - the union guys are making bank, getting $100 cash per diems on top of 6-figure salaries, and farmers became decamillionaires selling their land - the huge numbers on data center deals make residents *more* suspicious, not less! I’ve heard less a…
  Quoting@jasminewsunI’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiting sites, talking to tons of people — tradespeople, activists, planners, residents — then writing up a story lmk what questions I should dig into!

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

• Happy Birthday America! To me, the greatest nation on Earth. 250 years of loudly arguing our way toward a more perfect union 😂 We're in this together, I love you all! ❤️ PS: World Cup has been amazing. US in the round of 16, LFG! Also, I'm a long-time huge fan of Argentina and Messi, but Cape Verde vs Argentina was one of the greatest games I've ever seen. That is what the World Cup is all about!

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Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.

• Der Westbalkan gehört in der Perspektive zur Europäischen Union. Dass wir seit 13 Jahren keine Mitglieder mehr aufgenommen haben, zeigt auch Versäumnisse der EU. Präsident Macron und ich haben einen konkreten Vorschlag unterbreitet, wie wir jetzt in die nächsten Schritte gehen. Die Europäische Union muss zeigen, dass sie erweiterungsfähig und erweiterungswillig ist.

  English, from GermanThe Western Balkans belong to the European Union in perspective. The fact that we haven't admitted any new members for 13 years also shows failures on the part of the EU. President Macron and I have made a concrete proposal on how we can now move forward. The European Union must show that it is capable of and willing to expand.

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Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

• I took a walk around the Union Square neighborhood a couple of Fridays ago with our new partner @mignano and we recorded it so everyone can listen to our conversation. We talked about the past, present, and future of startups, VC, and NYC.
  Quoting@mignanoFred Wilson is one of the greatest VCs of all time. He is also my new partner at @USV and I'm lucky to say that. We've known each other for years, but becoming partners felt like a reason to get to know him even better. So a few weeks ago, we walked around Union Square and caught up about what @fre…

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Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

• The 2025 Go Cryptography State of the Union

  I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at GopherCon US 2025 in New York. It goes into everything that happened at the intersection of Go and cryptography over the last year.

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