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Michael Smith Jr. @deepgeneralist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hard to argue with a lot of this

Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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. 😲

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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?

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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”:

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"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...

politico.com

What Democrats Don’t Understand About Joe Rogan

The future of American political engagement is barely political at all.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What happens on Bsky stays on Bsky.

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