Defence spending is ‘magnet’ for criminals, warns EU fraud chief Huge sums being invested in European rearmament are attracting fraudsters, says agency head Petr Klement

Defence spending is ‘magnet’ for criminals, warns EU fraud chief ft.trib.al/PBLJUWz

Organizational Politics: The Game Running Your Career — Falk Rehkopf Most leaders sharpen at their craft and ignore the environment it operates in. Organizational politics is that environment and it's running whether you engage or not.

You're brilliant at your job. So why are you stuck?

The missing is the game you didn’t know you were playing.

Politics is the operating system of every organization. And if you're not playing, you're getting played.

falkrehkopf.com/blog/organizational-politics-the-game-running-your-career

If Trump intends to attempt a coup, here are five ways he could do it Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian

You need to read this.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.

V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.

www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model tests limits of global cyber defences New system has sparked fears it could turbocharge hacking and expose weaknesses faster than they can be fixed

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model tests limits of global cyber defences ft.trib.al/EWnfrGT

The annoyance economy isn’t going anywhere We must find our own amusements in dealing with spam, robocalls and chatbots

The annoyance economy isn’t going anywhere ft.trib.al/t7ylnaR

Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media Hungary’s prime minister-elect is vows to shut down Orbán-affiliated broadcasters until they can guarantee “objective, impartial reporting.”

"Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media."
www.politico.eu/article/pete...

"Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar used landmark appearances on state-controlled media outlets on Wednesday to reaffirm his intention to suspend their broadcasts as soon as he’s sworn in."

Yes.

It’s clear we won’t regulate AI for safety’s sake As usual, governments will barely affect the trends that most affect our lives

It’s clear we won’t regulate AI for safety’s sake ft.trib.al/29lgu04 | opinion

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Sam Altman’s second thoughts OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place?

"If we really might be facing 'the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity,' as Altman once wrote, shouldn’t we expect people at some point to (non-violently) freak out?" www.platformer.news/sam-altman-a... @caseynewton.bsky.social

The fact that this isn’t simply cancelled (never mind that it was gross even before Trump) is such an indictment of the press as a whole. How can they claim to be serious people??? I can’t get my head around it.

You don't get the sense that the people running the Correspondents dinner have thought this thing through.

@status.news: "Seems hard to believe he will not deliver remarks to the crowd, knowing they will be carried on cable news networks."

Can anyone imagine a WHCD official correcting a Trump lie?

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press.
Cancel the damn dinner.

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Betting on risk changes the world Prediction markets are the latest example of a disruptive new industry smacking into problems incumbents have long understood

Betting on risk changes the world ft.trib.al/R7Cgu23 | opinion

Screenshot of POLITICO London Playbook email, showing Palantir sponsorship

Oh, FGS -

@politico.com is taking sponsorship money from Palantir - running their ads through news updates.

That's absolutely the *last* thing we need in our politics, Palantir going straight for the political-media environment at a time when we need massive scrutiny of their contracts in the UK.

AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

Chatbots are devastating lives, right now, fuelling a new era of gender-based violence

How much more evidence is needed before this is taken seriously?

Our full article in collaboration with @everyonesinvited.bsky.social ⬇️

Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen.

Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons
for @thenerve_news. 👏

i'm very fascinated by the clipping phenomenon and the way it seems to power virality online now. Look at this stat from yay about Clavicular getting 2.2 billion views via clippers in one month. it's wild and also...not exactly 'authentic' in any traditional sense

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier Foundation)

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It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Bain & Co vulnerability exposed by hacker a month after McKinsey CodeWall says it gained access to consultant’s Pyxis platform using a username and password from public web code

Bain & Co vulnerability exposed by hacker a month after McKinsey ft.trib.al/DAQsGKj

The broligarchy's war on journalism The capture of US media by Trump allies is accelerating and the UK is the next in line. Plus: the mystery money behind my old newspaper.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why?

Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia…
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I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

what a glorious time capsule of this broken moment we are in

Harnessing Optimism for Personal & Organizational Success — Falk Rehkopf Discover how a shift to an optimistic mindset transformed an industrial leader's operations, reducing turnover, enhancing employee engagement, and improving customer satisfaction. Learn the impact of ...

Every challenge has a hidden opportunity, if we approach it with "real & learned" optimism.

It’s not surface-level positivity. It’s about rewiring your brain to spot the opening, asking: What’s possible here?

Many overlook it; will you? #ExecutiveOptimism

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The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky Podkastepisode · Better Offline · 7. april · 41 min

*Everyone* needs to hear this episode of @edzitron.com ‘s BetterOffline interview with Paul Kedrosky!

Where does the “prodigious AI integration efforts” of a great investment bank see the most benefit?

Building pitch decks for junior investment bankers! 🤦😂

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“The optimistic timeline is that we are one step past human capabilities, and that means that there is a huge but finite pool of flaws that can be found and fixed,” Stamos told me. “The pessimistic timeline is that with every release there will be new classes of flaws we never even imagined. It’s hard to predict, because we are trying to model superhuman thinking.”

Anthropic's Mythos model represents a dangerous new moment for cybersecurity. Experts tell me that hackers and nation states may catch up within months — and that the cat-and-mouse game between attacker and defender is about to become much more high-stakes www.platformer.news/anthropic-my...

Freedom itself is at stake in Hungary Sunday’s election will show if it’s possible to defeat Orbán’s illiberal democracy

Freedom itself is at stake in Hungary ft.trib.al/yQADR81 | opinion