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KevinPike

@capespear.bsky.social
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Canadian privacy & security practitioner (CISSP, LLM, FIP, etc.). I slice through Gordian knots and build no-nonsense, secure systems for innovators who prioritise execution and profit.

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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The first-order story is tragedy. The systems story is how quickly physical disruption moves through power, transport, telecoms, industrial sites, and supply chains. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Major earthquake in Japan disrupts power and travel, deaths feared in shopping mall explosion
Officials warn of strong aftershocks for about a week
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Markets tend to notice sovereign leakage before governments develop the language for it. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
theglobeandmail.com
Meet the investors and entrepreneurs shopping to keep Canada’s defence supply chain sovereign
Many businesses with defence industry potential have no succession plan, prompting interest in local buyers
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A defence industrial base is built at the contracting layer. Everything before that is rehearsal. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Leaving our startups behind is now Canada’s biggest national security risk
We’re falling behind in buying quickly and using buying power to scale our own technology
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Voluntary disclosure today; strategic dependency tomorrow. The distance between the two may be shorter than many assume. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump signs order designed to give government early look at powerful AI models
The order would give officials the chance to brace the economy for security risks. President Donald Trump shelved an earlier proposal following industry backlash.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Great powers under internal strain tend to harden informational boundaries first. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump administration proposes NDAs for all federal workers
The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This debate stopped being purely about pipelines once alienation became a strategic variable. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Ottawa sacrifices climate goals for a pipeline nobody needs
Carney’s climate commitment sounds increasingly hollow as Canada falls far short of meeting its 2035 targets
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For years, the digital economy felt weightless. Data centres are reminding people that compute is industrial infrastructure. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities
The survey found that Republicans and Democrats are uncomfortable living near a data center, but opposition is especially intense among Democrats.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The “valley of death” is widening. Capital waits for proof while proof requires capital. www.thetimes.com/business/ent...
thetimes.com
Green start-ups at risk from ‘triple squeeze’
Funding for the UK’s youngest low-carbon and renewable energy companies hit a five-year low in 2025, with the value of early-stage deals down by 50 per cent
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Institutional direction is set domestically. Geopolitical alignment adjusts accordingly. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
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Peter Magyar wins Hungary election, unseating Viktor Orban after 16 years
Centre-right Tisza party wins two-thirds majority in parliament that would allow it to amend constitution.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Incentives drive engagement patterns. Outcomes reflect those incentives. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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This detox may erase 10 years of social media brain damage, researchers say
Studies show that taking even short breaks could reverse measures of cognitive decline.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Platforms drift toward their dominant user base. The feed eventually reflects the coalition.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
£500 buys access. Telegram handles distribution. Crypto settles the contract. Intelligence operations now scale like marketplaces. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
thetimes.com
Iran’s spies ‘recruit UK teenagers on Telegram’
Publicly accessible channels on the encrypted messaging app offer payment to carry out tasks for Iranian intelligence — with adverts in English and Hebrew
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Truth, now tradable. Pressure, now predictable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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A journalist reported a missile strike. Then came the death threats.
An Israeli war reporter says online gamblers demanded he change a published story so they could win a payout on prediction market Polymarket.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Identity has entered mass production. Trust has not. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI.
Jessica Foster’s posts place her beside fighter jets, world leaders and Trump iconography. Experts say her rise shows how AI-generated women can capture attention.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Resilience is valuable. But when a population steadily lowers its ambitions, the more important question is what happened to the institutions responsible for enabling them. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv...
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Canadians are redefining ambitions this year, says new CIBC report
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Public debate is shaped long before the players enter the field. It begins with who governs the referees. www.thetimes.com/business/com...
thetimes.com
Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith takes 27% stake in Economist
Lynn Forester de Rothschild has agreed to sell her family’s interest for an undisclosed sum to the co-founder of First National Financial, a big mortgage lender
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Systemic risk today lives at the intersection of finance, infrastructure, and geopolitics. Few institutions are structured to govern that overlap. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/o...
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Opinion | I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sovereignty claims mean little without infrastructure to sustain presence. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Canada spending nearly $35-billion to fortify North, assert sovereignty
Funds will pay for upgraded airfields, new or repurposed hangars, ammunition and fuel storage, among other improvements
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A network of AI agents creates a new layer of platform dependency. Whoever controls the infrastructure quietly shapes how those agents interact with markets and people. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/t...
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Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Energy security and water security share the same infrastructure. Strike the coast, and both lifelines feel it. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Conflict in Persian Gulf threatens essential desalinated water supply
City populations and regional oil industry rely on the water desalination plants that were reportedly struck in attacks
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Profit incentives and threat assessment do not belong in the same silo. Codify the standard or accept the drift. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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What do AI firms do when users tell chatbots their dark, violent thoughts?
Tumbler Ridge tragedy underscores need for regulation, but getting that right can be tricky. Getting it wrong can be dangerous
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Label a domestic AI firm a supply chain risk, and procurement turns into executive leverage. That signal will echo. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
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Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A bill restructuring the boundaries of lawful expression advances under a motion to curtail legislative expression. Procedural compression in service of speech regulation carries its own symbolism. nationalpost.com/news/politic...
nationalpost.com
Justice minister suggests Liberals could limit debate to push through stalled hate speech bill
Justice Minister Sean Fraser suggested Tuesday the Liberals are ready to limit debate.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Frontier AI has entered the defense industrial base. Corporate usage policies now compete with sovereign authority. Power alignment follows. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Hegseth threatens to force AI firm to share tech, escalating Anthropic standoff
The Pentagon is demanding access to Anthropic’s AI technology, threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act if the company doesn’t comply.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Rorschach inkblots expose projection in humans; in AI systems, they expose training architecture. Ambiguity surfaces priors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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We gave an AI a Rorschach test. What it saw in the inkblots offers a window into the human mind
Rorschach tests play with the human imagination and our mind's ability to impart meaning onto the world around us – but what does AI see in them?
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
When “competitiveness” justifies statutory exemptions, power migrates. Not loudly. Procedurally. That is how executive authority scales. nationalpost.com/news/committ...
nationalpost.com
Committee amends Liberal clause in budget bill that critics say 'dynamites the rule of law'
Conservative amendments narrow the scope of provision that has received widespread criticism by civil liberties groups.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Economic erosion compounds quietly. Indecision, latency and bureaucratic overconfidence leave fingerprints long before GDP registers the damage. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible?
For an overdue wake-up call, The Globe travelled to the Deep South to understand how the state is breaking stereotypes and, at times, looking richer than Canada
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Victory is procedural. Legitimacy is reputational. When public optics and formal rulings split, trust takes the hit. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olymp...
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Team Brad Jacobs scratches Canada’s 12-year curling gold-medal itch
Canada enjoys a double-medal day in curling, after Team Homan’s Saturday morning bronze win over U.S.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When scale becomes the headline, discipline becomes an afterthought. Serious budgets begin with trade-offs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military
Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter say.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Brand strategy now includes model strategy. If AI cites you, you exist. If it omits you, you don’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...
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Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If an AI system mediates perception at scale, its priors matter. Governance begins long before legislation. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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Column | See ChatGPT’s hidden bias about your state or city
Researchers uncovered hidden biases in ChatGPT’s assessment of people from different places. See how the chatbot ranked your city, state or country.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
States invest in infrastructure to increase capacity. They weaponise it when leverage replaces trust. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
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Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Advertised employment figures are easy. Sovereign capability is harder to unwind once ceded. ottawacitizen.com/sponsored/ne...
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200,000 job-years of sustained employment: Why Korea’s submarine bid matters for Canada’s economy
Hanwha plans a large-scale, multi-decade trade and investment footprint across Canada, driving employment creation across many sectors.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Structural change is a leadership problem. Central bank heads, past and present, articulate the constraints. Responsibility for outcomes remains unsettled. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Macklem says economy undergoing structural change, plays down chance of further rate cuts
U.S. protectionism, AI and slowing population growth are fundamentally changing Canada’s economy, Bank of Canada Governor says
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Private credit replaced banks by trading oversight for yield. Now markets are rebalancing the trade. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Once the Hottest Bet on Wall St., Private Credit Has Started to Crack
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This piece does quiet work with proximity and implication. That technique matters as much as the claim itself. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
A whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC claims that Google breached its own ethics rules to help an Israeli contractor apply AI to drone surveillance video.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Trading windows close legally. Narratives close later. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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MDA Space faces lawsuit over executive trades ahead of loss of key contract
Plaintiffs claim they are owed $340-million in damages, plus costs, according to documents filed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Judicial review has become a vector for centralisation. The Charter supplies the mechanism. The provinces absorb the loss. nationalpost.com/opinion/ted-...
nationalpost.com
Ted Morton: The Charter is gutting the provinces and the data proves it
The courts are centralizing Canada at an increasingly aggressive rate
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Data centres are absorbing blame meant for decades of underinvestment. Visibility triggers outrage. Decay goes unnoticed. www.thefp.com/p/data-cente...
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Data Centers Are Not the Villain
The reason electric bills are rising isn’t data centers but years of disinvestment in power, writes Emmet Penney.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Canada legislated a value exchange that it couldn't enforce. Meta called the bluff. Trade pressure did the rest. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Ottawa in talks with Meta about restoring news to Facebook
Company blocked all news from Facebook, Instagram in 2023 in response to legislation which would require it to pay for content
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A statutory duty of care met unmanaged digital ingress. This lawsuit is the result. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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U.K. lawsuit seeks ban on smartphones in schools to protect children
The risks of children’s smartphone use, including sexual exploitation and bullying, are mounting in Britain where some say the government has a responsibility to do more.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Wealth migrates away from friction, uncertainty, and punitive policy. Blaming personalities avoids confronting governance failure. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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How tech billionaires spurred an exodus of rich people from California
Industry leaders long critical of San Francisco have fueled an online campaign against a proposed billionaire tax, prompting some of California’s richest to relocate.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
States stall when costs are asymmetric. Procedure becomes more of a hedge than a principle. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com
TikTok Canada gets a reprieve and a new review instead of a ban
In November 2024, Canada ordered the closure of TikTok Technology Canada Inc. But on Wednesday that order was set aside by Federal Court.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“Neoprime” is just a polite way of saying incumbents stopped building. Capital is flowing to whoever still can. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Dominion Dynamics, vying to become Canadian defence ‘neoprime,’ raises $21-million led by Georgian
Startup that makes Arctic technology seeks to hire and open a factory for its flagship sensor nodes
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We outsourced truth to polls. Markets bought it back and put a price tag on it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/t...
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All Bets Are On: The Rise of Prediction Markets
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Semiconductors move through territory; value gets skimmed en route. Industrial policy learned new tricks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump imposes novel tariffs tailored to hit foreign sales of high-end chips
The unusual measure targets only AI-enabling chips made abroad by American companies, and it won’t be levied on those used domestically.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
States now defer to locale before logic. AI travels like a strategic resource; the law arrives later. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/tec...
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China to probe Meta’s acquisition of Singapore-based AI startup Manus
Various departments to investigate if deal is consistent with Chinese laws and regulations
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Automated redaction embeds discretion into infrastructure; infrastructure persists without explanation. Review follows the system, never the other way around. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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Amid U.S. redaction scandal, Carney government developing AI systems to black out sensitive documents
At least three government departments are developing AI tools to help with redaction, but experts say the tech could "be a nightmare.”
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
When the state targets creation per se rather than harm, it isn’t regulating safety. It’s converting expression into a licensed activity. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
X could 'lose right to self regulate', says Starmer
It is currently illegal to share deepfakes, but the law against creating them has not yet come into force.
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KevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Tim Cook shaped Apple’s constraints for a generation. His successor decides whether they compound or break. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/t...
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The Man Who Could Be Apple’s Next C.E.O.
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