Dustin Robinson

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

Tering. Sommige mensen zijn blijkbaar HEEL boos dat wij grotendeels gestopt zijn met zwarte piet. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

This is one of the wildest stories I have read all year, and this has been a WILD year.

I don't know if this can be topped.

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When I first moved from Utah to The Netherlands I felt like a running star. 13 years on, whenever I'm back in Utah and out for a run I feel like a loser.

All of this.

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Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

There just isn’t a lot of political science research that’s like “what happens when the king is also on Facebook all day”

I have been gleefully checking the @nytimes.com best 100 movies list each day for the latest batch. Finally got my own top ten sorted too.

Why Everyone is Talking About Cloud Sovereignty It rhymes with “trying to steal Beanland.”

Cloud sovereignty feels like it's everywhere here in Europe right now. The US government can already demand access to any server, and there's a growing realization they could pull a stunt like simply pulling the plug on the whole thing. open.substack.com/pub/euregonn...

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers.

ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.

The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.

“The platforms were no longer social, in any meaningful sense of the word, but rather centralized and exercising constant (algorithmic) editorial discretion.”

Thought this piece was quite astute 👇

Yessssssss!

Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.

It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

*unexpected

Podcast bro sadly watching an oligarch walk away from him.

An expected result of the rise in AI search tools is that it is incentivizing PR teams to engage more with journalists rather than bypass them and go straight to feckless podcast bros. #AI #media #PR euregonnalovethis.substack.com/p/ai-is-pote...

Everything is AI or Protein Now What a Candybar Says About Where Marketing is These Days

I feel like everything is either AI or protein now. We’ve hit the point in the hype cycle where both businesses and consumers are amplifying each other’s FOMO to the point where the value of the product, be it protein or AI, has lost all meaning. euregonnalovethis.substack.com/p/everything...

Nooooooooooo! No! No! No!

The AI optimization arms race has begun.

The Meetings Are Coming From Inside the House Second screens are turning meetings into a horror show.

Just like second screen viewing makes for dumber television it makes for shittier meetings, creating a doom loop that's a race to the bottom. open.substack.com/pub/euregonn...

Vanavond doen we Koningsdag nog eens dunnetjes over! Want het is HOLLANDSE AVOND in #CHATEAUPROMENADE! 21.05 op NPO3 Kijk je ook?

This could have been a Lex Friedman interview. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Unicorns Don’t Grow on Crash Diets The data is clear: tax rates and social safety nets aren’t holding Europe back. A lack of capital is.

A lot of people blame Europe’s lack of major tech players on taxes and the social safety net, but a lot of the best performing countries here have higher taxes. The problem in Europe isn’t taxes, it’s capital. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Rewatching season 1 of Andor. It hits different in 2025.

Never in a million years could I have imagined a protest like this in my home state.

You know, there were signs he isn't smart.

Post of the year. Hands down.