"Free speech makes you safer. Free speech cures violence. Free speech protects the powerless. And even 'bad' people can have good ideas." My talk from April at TED Talks 2025 in Vancouver is live!

I un-retired from Polymarket! Crazy story this time… On Jun 13th I put my entire $40k Polymarket account on Cuomo winning the NYC primary at $0.62. I was the 8th largest Cuomo holder. It surged to almost $0.80. Then I saw the early voting data, did some social listening and ran

*chatgpt sawing off my leg* Your screams are not just 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 — they’re 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗨𝗟 💪

Peter Putnam was a promising student of John Wheeler who became obsessed with a computational model of the mind, was tormented by a pathological relationship with his wealthy mother, and ended up contributing to community politics while working blue collar jobs.

It was also extremely on-brand for Sasha that I got a great podcast recommendation out of his wedding reception.

I am seeing that Common Knowledge is in the air again. See my essay on epistemic logic puzzles and the problem of common knowledge. infinitelymore.xyz/p/epistemic-lo… #InfinitelyMore #TheBookOfInfinity

Next stop the IMF? The rate of interest on UK 10 year gilts is now higher than one time European fiscal basket cases Greece and Italy. My column on an increasingly perilous predicament, and a political class seemingly incapable of doing anything about it telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

In another life, David Foster Wallace would’ve been a Thielian character, a legendary venture capitalist with his uncanny ability to see trends decades early. Here he is in 2005, pinpointing exactly what it feels like to be online in 2025 And it’s funny too because today, 2005

What is Tezos all about? We interviewed Arthur B., the creator of tezos to find out👇

A key influence on the UK 'Online Safety Bill' is the NSPCC (The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) who in 1991 helped fuel Satanic Panic.

It's so enraging that Ireland has a world beating tech company in Manna Air Delivery (autonomous drone delivery) and rather than celebrate & showpiece it, our government is instead trying to shut it down because of a planning permission violation in a carpark. Such stupidity (🔗in🧵)

There's only a few weeks left to see our exhibition dedicated to Mexico's much-loved artist, José María Velasco ✨ Our exhibition, 'José María Velasco: A View of Mexico', explores the life and work of Velasco, Mexico's great 19th-century landscape painter and polymath. Book your

Who becomes an inventor? Three main factors dictate patenting rates: income, intelligence, and exposure to innovation. People are greatly influenced by the environment in which they are brought up, and that really matters. Let’s take a comprehensive look! 1/

How many lives will be lost over the next five years by cities banning or slowing the rollout of Waymo and other automated vehicles?

Dumb tall-poppy-syndrome articles like this is why all the stock market returns accrue to American investors

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91 bbc.in/46KWW3U

Refik Anadol: "The major museums we admire were founded nearly a century ago. So what would an institution look like that genuinely reflects this moment in time — our current realities and technological landscape? That is the real challenge." From Beyond the Algorithm: