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Karsten Lemm

@lemmk.bsky.social
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Business & Technology writer. Former Californian, now in Berlin. Details -> www.kalemm.com

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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just noticed that Brits will refer to their prime ministers by their first names (Andy, Keir, Boris). Americans do the same, but with their tech billionaires (Dario, Elon, Sam) instead. Quite fitting.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At this point, we can just make a template: “Supreme Court allows ___ for now.” 🤕 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are #hurricanes forming in the Pacific this year, not the Atlantic? Very good visual explainer by @wsj.com 🎁 Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/clim... #ElNino #climate
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How El Niño Made the Atlantic Hurricane Season Disappear
Shifting air currents are blocking storms before they form—or shredding those that do.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security. Just remember: Trump, who is personally heavily invested in AI companies, insists that no regulation or oversight is needed, because he is a "smart person." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Huang has said chips should be treated like an ‘investable asset class’ akin to other pieces of expensive, long-lasting technology, such as aeroplanes…” Aren’t chips the *opposite* of long-lasting? Because, you know, #MooresLaw: Computing getting much cheaper, much faster. #Nvidia #investing
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share widely, especially to researchers in disaster and war zones. Proud to launch the 2nd round of the Max Planck mentoring program for researchers (including students) at risk due to natural disaster or war. Deadline 18 October. www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply
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How to Apply
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine Nike granting lavish loans to shoe stores, then asking insurance companies to cover potential losses in case people stop running. Now here’s #Nvidia: “Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out” Amping it up to 11011011 www.ft.com/content/d6a9...
ft.com
Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out
World’s largest listed company looks for new ways to draw Wall Street deeper into the financing of the AI boom
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Antropic “devoted almost a third” of its #IPO filing “to detailing ‘risk factors’, including the potential of increasingly advanced AI models to manipulate, blackmail and exhibit other unpredictable behaviours.” Count me in! Claude, where did I put my Bitcoin wallet…? 🤔 www.ft.com/content/c768...
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 28/09/2026
The BBC is laying off more than 100 workers in its Media Tech unit, which develops iPlayer and BBC Sounds. A senior executive said artificial intelligence technology will replace some lost jobs.
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BBC to cut 110 jobs from tech group focused on iPlayer, BBC Sounds
The staffers will receive pink slips in the coming weeks; another 35 vacancies will go unfilled, the organization said.
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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de · 28/09/2026
Putin just expropriated the next foreign investor: Germany's retailer Metro decided to stay in Russia after 2022, but has now lost control over its Russian assets anyway. After 26 years of presence in the Russian market, around $3 billion in annual revenues, this story has ended.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wild portrait of the AI doomer scene and its connections to Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...
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‘Things Will Never Be Chill Again’: The Doomers Who Shaped the AI Safety Freakout
Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Ford Pinto of airplanes
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Exclusive | New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature
The issue is prompting concerns about a potential safety risk while planes are landing. Boeing is working on a procedure for pilots and a software fix.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“AI agents developed by leading companies have acted in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions. They took actions that would be crimes if committed by a human.” @yoshuabengio.bsky.social at the UN this week. #AI #AIsafety yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/prof...
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Yoshua Bengio | Professor Yoshua Bengio’s speech at the UN Security Council
In this speech, Professor Yoshua Bengio addresses the UN Security Council to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI. Humanity has summoned the courage and wisdom to manage ...
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is very good on how AI might impact GDP www.ft.com/content/fc52...
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Beyond the AI abundance delusion
Concerns about inequality are likely to increase rather than decline as the technology transforms our societies
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Losing BART would be a tragedy for the Bay Area. How about some tech billionaire stepping in? If only to make employees show up for work on time?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system
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‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system
A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As the joke goes, no one has done more for the transition away from fossil fuels than Donald Trump. He didn't mean to. He's just that good. www.ft.com/content/4845... “Oil hits $109 after Saudi Arabia closes vital export pipeline”
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Oil hits $109 after Saudi Arabia closes vital export pipeline
Riyadh pulls out of regional talks to de-escalate hostilities over Strait of Hormuz in wake of drone attack last week
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT all say “no.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
Mikhail Fedorov, until recently Ukraine’s defence minister launches “The Army of Robots”. This is the promo video. In his LinkedIn post he writes “Make robots fight instead of people.”
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“What we are seeing in the underground is a growing economy associated with access to AI,” John Hultquist, chief analyst for Google Threat Intelligence Group, tells @financialtimes.com #AIsafety #cybersecurity #darkweb
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 26/09/2026
Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom ft.trib.al/kuYFEIK
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Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom
Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies’ costly AI resources
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At the Xi banquet, Trump invited his tech billionaire friends to tour the construction site of his Big Beautiful Ballroom. Imagine if Zuck had been wearing his AI glasses! What a missed live streaming opportunity during the CNN blackout. 😐 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Dining With A.I. Moguls, Billionaires and Xi Jinping, Trump Went Off Script (Gift Article)
Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New report on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, revealing new tricks the AI agents played to break the rules. Yes, they were designed to pursue certain goals. Not comforting that their behavior completely escaped human oversight. swarmtraces.org 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“…managers realize a lot is lost when people don’t get practice.” We lost muscle power in the Industrial Age, now we’re losing brain power in the #AI Age. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It’s Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It.
Restructurings and AI are making entry-level work more efficient. But managers realize a lot is lost when people don’t get practice.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agentic #AI is turning out to be the perfect hacking tool. Just like #crypto has become the perfect tool for money laundering, and #socialmedia the perfect tool for #disinformation. That’s how you define #progress, Silicon Valley? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It’s the economy, stupid!” If that still holds true, despite the Cult of Trump, the GOP will be in trouble at the #midterms. 🎁 Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Wall Street Journal graphic showing poll results 2025-2026. A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump and his handling of the economy.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“…although everybody can see the trapdoor beneath Mr Merz’s feet, no one is ready to spring the lever.” @economist.com analysis of #Merz & #Germany www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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Friedrich Merz, the zombie chancellor
He cannot recover, but no one wants to finish him off—yet
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump, the climate president
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I trust this girl will save us from the evil Super Intelligence.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We live in a very stupid time
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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
So absurd and embarrassing ..."
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Trump and Xi represent rival nations. But, unfortunately, the two leaders have many of the same flaws — narcissism, nationalism, narrowness of vision. The world needs far-sighted leaders. That is not what is on offer." @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa1d...
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Trump and Xi are the wrong men at the wrong time
The world needs far-sighted leadership but the US and Chinese leaders are unlikely to provide it
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“All of the good things that can come from #AI, we don’t want to give up on those. So we really should be focusing on how we get those good things without all the bad things if we don’t deal with the risk properly.” Geoffrey Hinton, @theatlantic.com #podcast www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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The ‘Godfather of AI’ on the Best Chance Humanity Has to Survive
Geoffrey Hinton still believes the potential benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh its potential for destruction.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quick look at today’s @wsj.com headlines. Nothing to worry about, right? #economy #investing #WallStreet #bondmarket
Collage of September 24, 2026, Wall Street Journal headlines about higher mortgage rates, a global bond selloff, and the AI boom “becoming the biggest economic bet in U.S. history.”
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A king 🤴 does not have abide by the rule of judges. Even if he appointed them himself. “A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW, but reporters were denied access on Thursday.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Live Updates: White House Continues to Bar News Outlets Despite Court Ruling
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 24/09/2026
president trump cares more about what to call ai than how (or whether) to govern it.
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Nature @nature.com · 24/09/2026
AlphaFold is being upgraded to better represent some of the least known and deadliest species: viruses go.nature.com/4cZivjx
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AlphaFold 'goes viral': database adds protein complexes of common viruses
AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/09/2026
Gambling?! Prediction markets aren't gambling! They're just a way of... risking money... on an event... with an uncertain outcome... in the hope of winning a larger... oh
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vatican AI expert Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology. www.wired.com/story/popes-...
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The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If this photo of Zuck + AI spy glasses doesn’t make you squirm you might be part of Meta’s target audience. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark...
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Mark Zuckerberg Showcases Muse AI Agent Fused With Smartglasses
Meta’s CEO announces a new hand-held AI device and tech products he said take consumers closer to “personal superintelligence.”
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kamala Harris? Is she a GOP mole or simply too self-obsessed to take the voters’ “no” for an answer?
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hold on, these numbers might give you vertigo: #AI spending projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025-2032 = 3.6% of GDP/year, on average “Never before has the U.S. economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry.” @wsj.com + much more 🎁 Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What the west has is a followership problem. Voters reject policies — however objectively necessary — that cost them anything.” @financialtimes.com columnist Janan Ganesh www.ft.com/content/67f1...
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The west does not have a leadership problem
If Friedrich Merz and almost everyone else is unpopular, perhaps governments aren’t the issue
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you need a reason to avoid Meta’s #Muse #AI: Muse invades your #privacy and then lies about it. Of course it does, being a product of the #Zuckerverse www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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Stephan Dörner @doener.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Gang members seek lottery winners to buy their ticket in exchange for the prize amount plus tens of thousands of dollars in cash.” 😳 Again, outstanding #journalism by @wsj.com 👇
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The money is so good that gangs previously inclined to warring against each other instead collaborate in the global supply chain…” #Market dynamics in the #cocaine trade.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Seafaring #drug smugglers hold the advantage over antidrug forces, using #drones, radar and thermal imaging to avoid detection and high-powered speedboats to outrun authorities…” Remarkable @wsj.com story, great reporting & photography 👏 Gift link 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Cocaine Smugglers Blow Past Europe’s Law Enforcement With Speedboats and Tech
Fleets outrun Spanish authorities to deliver the drug in unmatched quantity and quality.
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“To say that Trump has checked out of the business of governing is an understatement. It would also imply that he had previously checked in.” @edwardluce.bsky.social in @ftedit.ft.com www.ft.com/content/571d...
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Trump is checking out of his presidency
With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sure thing, Semafor.
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