Great piece. See also our discussion on #TheTechHumanistShow a few months ago:

www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/30/d...

Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

...whereas I frequently refer to my expression as "resting bliss face"

@explaintrade.com @wyrdscience.bsky.social Yeah, Dmitry’s the one looking rockstar-chic in a leather jacket, but I’ll gladly take on either of those roles when we pitch the show to Netflix.

The Tech Humanist Show promo image with Dmitry Grozoubinski and Kate O'Neill

“It’s not just that the rules are degrading. It’s that policy has become vibes-based — and vibes can’t be modeled.”

Trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski (@explaintrade.com) on what’s different about this moment. Brilliant new #TheTechHumanistShow episode:
www.thetechhumanist.com/2026/04/16/t...

I love when you’re watching a show set in NYC and a character mentions their favorite food or store or whatever, and you look it up and it’s real and it’s still there and now you have tomorrow’s itinerary all planned out

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Good piece on "Frankenstein citations" in academic publishing, illustrating why the scale of the problem has proven hard to quantify, and why coming up with technical fixes like submission screeners remains more troublesome than it would first seem
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

o hai, my least favorite day of the year on the internet 🙄

Screen shot of a “do this math problem to prove you are human” type of prompt

Oh the irony of getting this prompt while logging into my own website for my own podcast about technology’s impact on human experience

It reminds me of the Roomba data moment:
vacuums : living rooms :: Pokémon Go : cities.

It was always about the map.
It was always about making place computable.
Always about consent getting abstracted.

Not a panic take. Just a pattern. Worth seeing clearly so we can make informed tradeoffs.

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

This is cool, and it’s VERY #PixelsAndPlace (throwback to my 2016 book).

Niantic’s using Pokémon Go’s crowdsourced city-scale imagery to help robots navigate with centimeter-level precision:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...

image from Iran shows a missile embedded into the ground and a few people gathered around looking at it (Reuters)

This image.

Wow.

(@economist.com has the full story on what's unfolding — and it's a lot: www.economist.com/interactive/...)

We cannot leave meaning up to machines | Kate O'Neill | TEDxWalden Pond YouTube video by TEDx Talks

75,000 views, 3,200 likes, and 100 (almost entirely thoughtful!) comments —

it's been quite a journey for my TEDx talk on AI, human meaning-making, books & cats & grief, and learning to use tech mindfully, toward what matters.

Have you watched it? Shared it? Thank you!

youtu.be/7fHjbqWRL4E?...

Thank you!

screen shot of an email update from The Economist showing the top news story about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being arrested in relation to Jeffrey Epstein, described as "a dead sex offender"

Dang, @economist.com not mincing words or making nicey-nice with their news summaries today 🫡

My US event briefings from speaker bureaus often refer to me as the "talent." My UK briefings often refer to me as the "artiste."

As in:

18:45 - Artiste to arrive for the evening
20:20 - 20:50 - Artiste session

One must pair this with sufficient reality checks to keep one from getting a big head

Ambitious anti-ICE Big Tech boycott has begun in America: will it work? Small businesses struggled to observe a nationwide general strike to protest ICE but professor Scott Galloway says that a boycott of Big Tech companies could be more effective.

More context in this Cybernews piece — and thanks to @gradauskas.bsky.social for quoting me in it:

cybernews.com/news/boycott...

Ambitious anti-ICE Big Tech boycott has begun in America: will it work? Small businesses struggled to observe a nationwide general strike to protest ICE but professor Scott Galloway says that a boycott of Big Tech companies could be more effective.

Leaders especially can't afford to stay silent when activities go so far beyond what we can normalize. Yes, taking a stand is scary. But if we're committed to more human-friendly decisions, we need to know our values and identify the bright lines that will guide us.

Ambitious anti-ICE Big Tech boycott has begun in America: will it work? Small businesses struggled to observe a nationwide general strike to protest ICE but professor Scott Galloway says that a boycott of Big Tech companies could be more effective.

Boycotting Big Tech may not dent their bottom line, but that's not the entire point.

When you participate in a boycott, you're claiming an identity that aligns with principled resistance. You're making your values visible and refusing complicity.

Shambala - Single Version

open.spotify.com/track/0P6fEg...

An Old Fashioned Love Song - Single Version

open.spotify.com/track/5BcyG2...

Joy To The World

open.spotify.com/track/2ymeOs...

Have barely heard a peep about Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night the other day, and have to give him at least a small shoutout because "Joy to the World" was absolutely UBIQUITOUS when I was a kid, and it's astonishing that the same voice sang "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "One" and "Shambala."

Do you think the “no is a complete sentence” people understand what miserable life guidance that is?

butterfly man meme: technologists reacting to unexpected LLM output: is this emergence?

butterfly man meme: the media reacting to technologists reacting to unexpected LLM output: is this intelligence?

butterfly man meme: the public reacting to the media reacting to technologists reacting to unexpected LLM output: is this our AI overlords?

not sure I have the sequence right but it feels pretty close

Both AOC and Katie Porter deserve plenty of credit for precedent

What examples are you seeing?

I saw one local business in Hell's Kitchen make a decision to stay open today and donate proceeds to @immdefenseproject.bsky.social rather than cutting hours from immigrant workers, which seems thoughtful

and a business in Nashville staying open to provide relief to people without power

Curious about businesses supporting the strike by closing or by extending flexible arrangements to workers and/or the community

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.