Bernhard Hack

Been pasting Calvino's Invisible Cities verbatim into Genie and it works surprisingly well in "imagining" them: Marco Polo in Octavia, the web city over a chasm; Armilla, the city of pipes; Ersilia, the city where threads between buildings show relationships; & Sophronia half carnival, half "real"

YouTube video by Yuval Noah Harari An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity @wef | Yuval Noah Harari

Should AIs have legal personhood? youtu.be/QiT2yK-5-yg

18 Predictions for 2026 Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat.

What a time to be alive jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/2026-predi...

Peter Thiel's New Model Army The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

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Freedom is forged by those believing in the power of democracy & technology to build brighter futures for all.🙌

Moving AI from addictive to assistive intelligence is key.💯

Read my #BerlinFreedomConference address.

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#TaiwanCanHelp🇹🇼 #FreeTheFuture🖖

The Coin Laundry, a global cryptocurrency investigation How the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.

ICIJ’s latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is now live!

Tap the link to read how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.

The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

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American Concentration Camps Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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YouTube video by La Repubblica Repubblica delle Idee 2024 - Napoli. Il monologo di Antonio Scurati

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CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
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The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet. Here's why your job, investments, and future depend on understanding it

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DeepSeek says civilisation is doomed A harrowing conversation with the newest Chatbot

One for the #doomers gnug315.substack.com/p/deepseek-s...

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup

The Empire Self-Destructs We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.

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In der Tat eine sehr gute Analyse um das Konzept "Flood the Zone with Shit" und die Limitationen dieses Ansatzes, ein Land zu regieren.

Endlich mal eine Analyse, die etwas tiefer geht. Empfehlung!

The Ministry of Empowerment Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? All I could think ...

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Schlaumeier trifft Pleitegeier - zackzack.at Stefan Pierer & Co. Die „Ganz Großartigen Männer“ (GGM), ein besonders gewinnender Charaktertypus der Gegenwart.

Gewinne privatisieren, Verluste sozialisieren zackzack.at/2024/12/04/s...

Obeying in advance Media billionaires ask for tyranny

Vorauseilender Gehorsam und die Lehren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wieder ganz aktuell. snyder.substack.com/p/obeying-in...

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

This piece probably has something for everyone, so read if you look for inspiration.