One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
OpenAi has clearly fallen behind Anthropic in the Ai race.
Anthropic is nearing profitability and growth is exploding. Meanwhile OpenAi is projecting 2030 profitability, but their growth is slowing and they are missing internal targets.
Google's Gemini will likely survive with Google's financial backing. Facebook can probably afford to keep their Ai efforts going. Elon can clearly afford to keep Grok going indefinitely.
I suspect OpenAi is the only Ai model that lacks long term viability. They have no other profit center to sustain the cash burn. All of the other players can use their profits from other businesses to keep funding their Ai division.
🚨🗣️New: Erling Haaland on why England’s equalizer through Bellingham against Norway should not have stood:
“I don’t care how big the moment was, that goal should never have counted. The Laws of the Game are there for everyone. If the ball hits a camera cable and it changes the flight, that’s outside interference. Play stops. It’s a dropped ball. Simple.”
“Instead, England score, the whole momentum changes, and suddenly Norway are chasing a completely different game. Moments like that decide international tournaments.”
“Now imagine the exact same thing happened in a match involving Argentina and Messi. Be honest with yourselves, football wouldn’t hear the end of it. Every TV show, every podcast and every social media account would be calling it one of the biggest refereeing scandals of the tournament. But because it’s England, somehow people are expected to move on.”
“Consistency is all players ask for. Either the Laws apply every game, or they don’t.”
MILTON FRIEDMAN PREDICTING #BITCOIN 10 YEARS BEFORE IT WAS INVENTED:
“THE ONE THING THAT’S MISSING BUT THAT WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED IS A RELIABLE E-CASH…
A METHOD WHEREBY ON THE INTERNET YOU CAN TRANSFER FUNDS FROM A TO B WITHOUT A KNOWING B OR B KNOWING A.”
“THE WAY IN WHICH I CAN TAKE A $20 BILL AND HAND IT OVER TO YOU, AND THERE’S NO RECORD OF WHERE IT CAME FROM.”
HE KNEW 🔥
JUST IN: THE #BITCOIN SIGNAL APP IS HERE
NEW MESSAGING APP JUST FUSED SIGNAL ENCRYPTION WITH SELF-CUSTODIAL BTC LIGHTNING PAYMENTS
YOU CAN NOW SEND SATS DIRECTLY IN PRIVATE CHATS
FREEDOM WINNING. LOVE TO SEE IT 🧡
This is Tony Blair’s house.
The architect of ‘rubbing our noses in diversity’, and consequential rape/murder of our so many women and children.
He is presently working on our digital ID with Larry Ellison.
Nice house, for a politician, isn’t it.
@RikardN Lmao hela poängen är ju att det saknas valfrihet. Människor i makt spenderar andra människors pengar utan ansvar. Lite som en diktatur eller monarki
@thekarlgent Antar att du missade poängen med den deflationella kraft han förutser. Robotar och AI menar han kommer kunna ge "amazing abundance for all mankind", inte för att en kreditexpansion blåst upp en tillgång, snarare för att tjänstens pris ska trenda mot noll
🚨 A POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE IS RIPPLING ACROSS IRELAND
From Belfast to Dublin, the mood is changing.
A powerful speech today highlighted the growing anger and frustration felt by many who believe their concerns have been ignored for too long.
What is emerging is bigger than a single protest.
Bigger than a single city.
And potentially bigger than the politicians who thought they could simply ride out the storm.
The ground is shifting.
Afghan war veteran vs UK Police 👮♀️🇬🇧
Mansfield 🏴
The look on the police Officers faces say it all…the Afghan war veteran tells them
The hard truth!! 💪🏴🇬🇧
#police#Afghanistanwar#uk#protest
The Irish Citizen Army has a very important message:
“ We represent all of Ireland 32 counties.
We refuse to witness the suffering of our citizens.
Our Irish citizens refuse to be treated like second class citizens on their own island.”
#Ireland