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Spain considers social media ban for under-16s, joining others in Europe Spain's prime minister says that his government plans to ban social media access for children under 16.

Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.

This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement

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Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

A Bad Heir Day at the Fed No, Kevin Warsh isn’t qualified

About Kevin Warsh

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Bezos in Paris! The extreme wealth and power of Silicon Valley leaders has flattened the usual tale of wealth-induced decadence. Bezos has gone from empire builder to fashionista in a single lifetime! Watch on IG www.instagram.com/reel/DUGVeVw...
Read in The Know-It-Alls @thenewpress.bsky.social

To Facemash or not to Facemash? Jurors in California social media addiction trial must be allowed to connect the dots. @thenewpress.bsky.social

if CBS and the Washington Post both gut their newsrooms this week, that’s the nail in the coffin for the “just find a nice billionaire and settle down” theory of media preservation

2023 post from Avery Edison: I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’ Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun

Not that there was much doubt, but of course they are lying www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The biggest tech story for 2026 doesn’t appear to be one: the proposed billionaires’ tax in California, which goes after wealth not income. If we are to dig out of the deep hole of inequality led by Big Tech, we need to support bold ideas like a wealth tax. @thenewpress.bsky.social @seiuca.org

A Private Jet Full of Vegas Revelers Never Made It Home. Would They Have Been Safer Flying Commercial? Fancy fliers are creating a huge boom in private-jet travel, no longer the exclusive province of Fortune 500 companies, Donald Trump, or Taylor Swift. Yet for all the allure of flying private, it’s a ...

Personally owned or chartered jets are potent signifiers of over-the-top wealth, redolent of exclusivity and power, yet they evoke all of the darker aspects of that privilege and are a rather dangerous luxury [ @jeffwise.bsky.social @vanityfair.com ] www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Tommy Brennan on Trump's ICE Deployments in Minnesota - SNL

Interestingly, the best thing from last weekend's SNL is this clip that was cut for time and posted on a Tuesday night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8O...

The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia … the only large-scale platform to reject advertising and surveillance. Why? Because it’s guided by its users not a Know-It-All founder. Why is it so successful? Because it believes in assuming good faith. @thenewpress.bsky.social
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Best explanation for Wikipedia’s status as ‘last unenshittified major website’ is a core belief: Assume Good Faith. Or, Expect Good Faith. Wikipedia tells the truth re: quack science, conspiracy theories, propaganda outlets because it earnestly seeks truth. No both-sidesing!
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Happy Wikipedia Day! #Wikipedia25

With the news that Mark Zuckerberg named a former Trump advisor as Meta’s new president I wanted to explore the claim that extremist Democrats like Joe Biden pushed Silicon Valley into the arms of Trump. #TheKnowItAlla #TheBreakitAlls

there is that whole Gordian knot idea, though ... that complex problems can have simple solutions.

I can’t lie ... I’ve been suspicious of Hoffman since I learned his best friend was Peter Thiel. Presented as two giant intellects debating Big Questions, they remind me of Mortimer and Randolph in Trading Places … two squabbling billionaires aligned in using capitalism for monopolistic wealth. 2/2

Democrats should reject tech influence to win elections, Warren says Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) urged Democrats to put working people over rich donors.

Much praise to @warren.senate.gov for keeping the focus on Reid Hoffman and how he and other Silicon Valley "liberals" use their wealth to keep the Democrats pro-Big Tech. Hoffman’s plan is to “manage” the destruction from Silicon Valley. We need to stop it. 1/2 www.theverge.com/news/860706/...

Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair

Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair

How’d we get to Move Fast and Break America? From Big Tech treating people like machines and machines like people. #TheKnow-It-Alls @thenewpress.bsky.social

Hajar Abdelkader: Wildcard serves 20 doubles faults and loses match in 37 minutes The organisers of a professional women's tournament which has gone viral because of a wildcard player's poor performance acknowledge she should not have been allowed to play.

Also known as pulling an Ackman: www.bbc.com/sport/tennis...

Image of the new paperback edition of The Know-It-Alls

Excited that my ahead-of-the-curve book about Silicon Valley is being issued as a paperback just in time for the techpocalypse! Thank you @thenewpress.bsky.social.

After Jimmy Wales said he thought a Wikipedia article entitled “Mar-a-Lago Face” was politically biased, the community agreed to a new name: “Beauty trends among American conservatives.” Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue …
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Mar-a-Lago face - Wikipedia

Heated debate over whether to delete Mar-a-Lago Face article from Wikipedia, defined as “eyeliner, mascara, rouge and foundation, heavily applied, as to make its use obvious.” Leading the charge against is Jimmy Wales, who calls it an “attack page” not fit for WP. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-L...