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Adrian Monck

@amonck.bsky.social
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Weekly geopolitical intelligence • Former WEF MD 7thin.gs

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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 10h
Reminds me of my favourite M6 bridge graffiti. “Hit the North? It’d be quicker to get out and walk.”
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If it doesn’t get researched, it can’t happen.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The strange and damaged paths of unloved children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/m...
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Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Gift Article)
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/09/2026
"So much for free speech. The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms." www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“My dog bit someone”
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who decides when AI is safe enough? open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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Who decides when AI is safe enough?
Pacing or racing? A species that can live with acid oceans and soaring temperatures can probably live with LLM safety risks.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
An institution driven by curiosity and grit
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You too may want to respond to questions about winning an Oscar.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How continental. A black bloc.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The People’s Liberation Payments open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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The Choice
The People’s Liberation Payments: China’s fear of welfare.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Big robotics breakthrough claim generalistai.com/blog/gen-1.5
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GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners - Generalist AI
GEN-1.5 can in-context learn a new task from as little as 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data — or adapt with 1 to 10 gradient steps on minutes of data. These capabilities emerge from pretraining on...
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No fan of the apple pie and eagle scout stuff but this stuck out: “Down the hall, the president signed an executive order banning me from restrooms in all federal buildings. I would start to plan policy meetings around bathroom stops across Pennsylvania Avenue.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In case you want something to read this weekend open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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The Cave and the Machine
What Chauvet’s rock paintings and Pāṇini’s chanted grammar say about handing over thought, work and deed to AI.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Anything human, we must remind ourselves, is kept by being re-enacted and repeated. And we are the sums of our redundant rituals being optimised out of our machines. > my latest 7thin.gs/p/ai-deskill...
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The Cave and the Machine
What Chauvet’s rock paintings and Pāṇini’s chanted grammar say about handing over thought, work and action to AI.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thetford is itself entirely immigrant – a Cockney exclave in Norfolk.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hassabis > Hassa-been
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/07/2026
U.S. Military To Test Troops’ Testosterone Levels theonion.com/u-s-military-to-test-t…
“Bad news for the 82nd Eunuch Division.”

Britt Kravitz, Oven Tester
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There was another wheat-field by the side of which I used to walk sometimes in the evenings, as the grains in the cars began to grow firm.
Reapers resting, John Singer Sargent, 1885
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fewer Patriots…
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My review of The Odyssey. Like Michael Bay directed The Trip.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Inside China’s AI World: The DeepSeek Transcript open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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Inside China’s AI World: The DeepSeek Transcript
Four hours of Liang Wenfeng on Nvidia, Huawei and the compute gap.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill in Dean Spanley. Grab a glass and you won’t regret it.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The China AI Manifesto Scaring The West open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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The China AI Manifesto Scaring the West — And Its Own Investors
Zhipu AI’s open letter is neither a geopolitical threat nor a compelling defence of the LLM business.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Literally whack-a-mole with supposedly serious journalism
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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 05/07/2026
I'm sorry, Lyra. I'll never forget how angry you were in my car, talking about how many people's families and loved ones were denied justice because of the culture of intimidated silence that surrounded paramilitary murders in Northern Ireland. It's dark that you have now joined that long list.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
4th of July
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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
UK/EU position seems to be to accept modest extortion and then immodest… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump threatens 100% tariff on European countries that impose digital tax
US president says levy would be imposed immediately and supersede pre-existing trade deals with the country
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“It is a thing we made up in British politics etc…”
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A man from the people but not of the people. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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The Cautious Messiah
A man from the people but not of the people
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir was the last person I saw before I ended my last job. Known him on and off (very tangentially) since university politics. He made a bad ambassadorial appointment and a mistake on winter fuels. He didn’t manage the PLP. But he repaired UK relationships. Regicides rarely succeed.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Tl;DR Labour MPs are idiots
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The accelerated development of expensive weapons to combat cheap ones will continue until morale improves.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Labour market redux 20C - job for up and coming young journalist 21C - retirement gig
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In 1991 Washington set a limited aim, gathered a broad coalition, massed overwhelming force, pushed Iraq out of Kuwait and stopped on the line it had drawn. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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The Iran Deal Trump Signed but Didn’t Write
America can still destroy almost anything. It can no longer decide what comes after.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
You don’t get to decide. The violent get to decide. This is the salt for their drear, angry lives. That’s how it always was.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Based on the philosophy that if we don't know about ocean heating, El Nino, hurricanes and AMOC shutdown, they aren't happening www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’
Experts say dismantling the ocean observation system will ‘severely degrade’ the accuracy of weather predictions
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“The new infrastructure model … Hyperscaler demands sitting on private-credit balance sheets with public consequences for grids and resources.” open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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The Trillion-Dollar Bet Against the Climate
The AI build-out that’s walking past every rule built to green it.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Former ’60 Minutes’ Boss Bill Owens Defends Scott Pelley & Slams CBS News www.tvinsider.com/1267555/60-m...
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Former '60 Minutes' Boss Bill Owens Defends Scott Pelley & Slams CBS News
He also reacts to appointment of show's new exec producer Nick Bilton.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Finally a business model for AI.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It says risks, but surely it means effects 🤔
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
60 Minutes was over when Bill Owens quit.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The deep state splitter
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Separatism for Alberta turns out to be a Russo-American joint influence operation. bbc.com/news/article...
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US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Talking IPOs and AI on @aljazeera.com youtu.be/IXzV1KLqfrc?...
youtu.be
Will the AI race fuel another boom or another bubble? | Counting the Cost
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An expensive retelling of Dante and the Lobster
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Time for a government of national self loathing www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Labour has 'no coherent plan' for country, says former PM Blair
The ex-Labour PM says Sir Keir Starmer's government is in the "wrong position" ahead of the next election.
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Their only interest is division.
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