Alan Soon (Splice)

North Korea condemns Trump's Gaza takeover proposal as 'ludicrous' SEOUL: North Korean state media on Wednesday (Feb 12) denounced United States President Donald Trump's proposal to take over Gaza and relocate Palestinians as ludicrous and accused Washin

An idea so crazy that even the North Koreans think it's insane.

www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/no...

Hard to argue with a lot of this

[FREE]_China_Chatbot_13 What happens when Chinese AI meets Chinese media

2/ Link to the full report:
linguasinica.substack.com/p/free_china...

@chinamediaproject.bsky.social

1/ Lingua Sinica has a fascinating look at China's AI and how that plays out in the information space.

Try asking DeepSeek LLM (which has impressed researchers around the world for its capabilities) about Assad's human rights record in Syria. 😲

4/ The real freedom comes when you own these definitions. When things don't go as planned (and they won't), you'll have clarity instead of chaos.

Draw that line in the sand early. How are you defining failure in your journey? How will you move forward from what you started?

3/ But neither success nor failure is final. They're just chapters in your story. But you need to write these chapters yourself — no one else will give you permission to succeed OR fail.

2/ It's a recurring theme that I see from a lot of media entrepreneurs: a lack of clear boundaries around how far they could take their startups.

1/ Everyone likes to talk about success, but few are keen to talk about potential failure. This is something that's come up in several coaching calls that I've done recently.

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

I can’t tell if a figurative gun was put to his head, or if he did this out of ambition and opportunity.

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’ Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

6/ This is staggering.

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

5/ And it gets worse: Meta will fight any government when it comes to national hate speech laws. “We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” said Zuckerberg.

4/ Meta now allows you to call gay people mentally ill. Or to say that Chinese people brought Covid everywhere. Or that women can’t get certain jobs because of their gender.

3/ My worry is not so much about the loss of fact-checking newsrooms around the world, but something bigger in what Zuckerberg called a “cultural tipping point” toward “speech”:

2/ These fact-checking efforts were also unscaleable — social media news cycles are short and fast, making it difficult for any journalist to debunk lies as quickly as they appear. In the age of engagement-optimized generated AI content, this is an impossible fight.

1/ Meta’s fact-checking initiatives were never done in good faith — it was a token nod to the news industry.

Meta’s advertising platforms are primed to ensure that emotionally charged posts get the most attention — factual or not.

I would like to take credit for that but sorry unfortunately you've got the wrong Splice -- those are the other guys. 😜

Civic duty doesn't matter unless there's a law compelling them to act. :(

Just stumbled on this. Much needed. Thank you, Tyler.

Should have been written by A1!

What Democrats Don’t Understand About Joe Rogan The future of American political engagement is barely political at all.

"It is a model of political engagement that is not political at all. Any morsels of political ideology are cloaked entirely within a lifestyle that these content creators are selling — and young men are buying... [this is] more cultural than political in nature.”

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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