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Paul Armstrong

@paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social
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Emerging Technologies Advisor (TBD Group). Also: tech/startup writer, speaker, author of ‘Disruptive Technologies’. Optimistic sceptic. More info: thetbd.group | paul-armstrong.com | tbdpl.us

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 23/09/2026
ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
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ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones
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The Economist @economist.com · 23/09/2026
A new paper-based battery is an important step towards a wider range of swallowable devices, says one expert. But significant safety testing is still needed before they are used in people, bit.ly/4iDCl7y Illustration: Ben Hickey
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/09/2026
A criminal hacking group said it had stolen the sensitive personnel records of thousands of current and former FBI officials. The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the FBI, which said it was investigating the matter.
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Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records
The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Giving honeybadger.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Has Apple accidentally made the perfect phone for old people? www.cityam.com/has-apple-ac... @techmeme.com
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Has Apple accidentally made the perfect phone for old people?
Has Apple accidentally built an age-tech device without calling it one, asks Paul Armstrong after the release of the first foldable iPhone.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Women in England with incurable breast cancer to get life-extending drug on NHS
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Women in England with incurable breast cancer to get life-extending drug on NHS
Thousands with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will have access to Enhertu after ministers strike deal on price Thousands of women in England with incurable breast cancer will get access to a life-extending drug on the NHS after negotiations over its cost proved successful. About 1,000 women a year with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will be able to obtain Enhertu from Thursday after ministers and the drug’s makers struck a deal on its price. Continue reading...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers cut down a Flock camera, dumped its internal storage, and shared the files w/ WIRED and 404 Media. It includes thousands of videos and logs showing how the device took images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days The code reveals in new detail how Flock tracks the vehicles and people.
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is just boring now. He’s worn me down. Everyone’s so depleted that we just accept his dementia as ok.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To be fair, when they announced followers this was 100% predicted.
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
US diesel now fetching more than $200 per barrel. Highest print of the Hormuz crisis thus far, only two days closed at the height of the April 2022 crisis closed higher.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/09/2026
“This is the museum event of the decade, possibly the century so far. Are we really to believe that a more ethical partner would not have jumped at the chance to be involved?” @benlukeart.bsky.social on the #BayeuxTapestry at the British Museum. www.thenerve.news/p/bayeux-tap...
We need to talk about the Bayeux Tapestry show and its billionaire sponsor. By Ben Luke. Photograph: a poster for the Bayeux Tapestry outside the British Museum with sponsor Igor Tulchinsky’s name at an equal scale to those of the British Museum and the French government.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
XRobots creator James Bruton swapped bicycle wheels for motorized spheres, letting his invention roll, drift and balance sideways in ways no ordinary bike ever could.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A) good and b) can we check the verification process why such folks got access in the first place?
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Graham Starr @gstarr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled since the end of Roe. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s all kicking off in Omaha - Amazon is learning a lot but not making friends. flatwaterfreepress.org/something-in...
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Something in the air: Suburban Omaha is now an Amazon drone zone - Flatwater Free Press
Twelve drones made 6,000 trips from Amazon’s hulking Papillion warehouse in July and August to deliver packages up to 7.5 miles away.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the Future, Not fossil fuels….
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...
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Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection
Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I think spokesmodel and copywriter are still legit / upfront about their allegiances. On the whole, influencers, I find, are neither. They are however, very much becoming as grubby as the tactics to shill anything to anyone but often more aggressively than previous decades.
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 05/08/2026
Wow. I am not entirely surprised to see Demis Hassabis move to a role more decisively focused on frontier research. www.reuters.com/business/google-sha…
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Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind chief shifts role
Shares of Alphabet fell 4% after the news.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/08/2026
LinkedIn asks judge to bar top executives' testimony in lawsuit it tried to settle reut.rs/3TE3lcy
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LinkedIn asks judge to bar top executives' testimony in lawsuit it tried to settle
LinkedIn has asked a U.S. judge to block a group of users from questioning five current and former top ​executives, including CEO Daniel Shapero, in a proposed class action alleging ‌the company monopolized professional social networking.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Newsflash: tech company has dark PR strategy.
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Top panel is tiny planet Mercury in relation to the HUGE Sun.
Bottom panel is a similar image, a tiny "close ad" button in relation to the fingertip labeled "my finger" which fills nearly the entire panel.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hot take: Crazy popcorn buckets can’t save a crappy, expensive experience.
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
HEADLINE: "Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Shuts Down School for the Disadvantaged" ALT HEADLINE: "Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Joins the Growing List of 'Let-Them-Eat-Cake' Billionaires" futurism.com/future-socie...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Shuts Down School for the Disadvantaged
A school for low-income students cofounded by Mark Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, has officially shut its doors.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/08/2026
From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - Big Tech’s circular AI trade grows too big to veil reut.rs/453BhSA
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Breakingviews - Big Tech’s circular AI trade grows too big to veil
SpaceX and Anthropic lose money but account for half the $280 bln rise in ​S&P 500 earnings this quarter. ​How? Paper gains at Google and ⁠Amazon from their investments in the ​hot startups. As massive spending turns ​cash dispensers into incinerators, the logic gets harder to follow.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 03/08/2026
Japanese engineers develop a technique to recover and recycle 90% of Lithium from old EV batteries.
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Scientists recover 90% of lithium from old batteries — here's why it matters
A metals plant in Tsuruga of the Fukui Prefecture has positioned itself as a major player in the battery recycling industry by achieving near-record levels of lithium recovery.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is clearly just telling him to sssssh.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/07/2026
Modern blockbusters are getting longer, even as young people struggle to sit through an hour of a film. In The Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social explores how changing attention spans shift the experience of watching movies:
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Movies and the Attention Span
As young people struggle to sit through even an hour of a film, modern blockbusters are getting longer.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
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Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/07/2026
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 20/07/2026
📣 You're invited! Next Friday, Rest of World deputy editor Itika Sharma Punit sits down with Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian to discuss what’s really happening beneath the AI headlines. Learn more and register here: tally.so/r/A7GE4o
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State of Open Source AI
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
In other news, my forthcoming book with @fieldsmeyer.com --ON COURAGE, How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear -- is now available for pre-order. We interviewed 100+ dissidents worldwide to craft a practical guide to personal courage under authoritarianism. www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...
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On Courage
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported collection of stories about how anyone can...
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17/07/2026
NYT nails it.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Watched the Trump video. I have seen more mature toddlers.
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Charlie Day: I'm Sorry... What?
ALT: Charlie Day: I'm Sorry... What?
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The correct decision.
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Susanne democratic socialist @momoftwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good. Good. Good. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers
The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil Case A jury had found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming the writer.
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E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil Case
A federal jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming Ms. Carroll. He exhausted his appeals last month, prompting a judge to order that the money be paid.
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Politico @politico.com · 09/07/2026
The House’s Epstein investigation will hit the one-year mark later this month, and the saga isn’t ending anytime soon. 🔗 politi.co/4h3mC0z
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Opting out increasingly means opting out of modern life." My take on AI and privacy in the New York Post. Read:
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AI is making the hard choice between consumer safety and privacy even trickier
Several recent high-profile incidents underscore the volatile intersection where digital advancement and privacy now collide. 
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
InfoWars is now live.
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WELCOME TO THE REAL INFOWARS
YouTube video by InfoWars
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New C_NCENTRATE just landed for TBD+ members. Curated analysis on what matters. Not rehashed press releases. From £24.99/mo.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Remember.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What is the cost of one bad decision in your organisation? Probably more than £299/year. TBD+ exists to improve decision quality.
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Paul Armstrong @paularmstrongtbd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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