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Peter O'Kelly

@pbokelly.bsky.social
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Hobbyist conceptual and logical data modeler

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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been looking forward to this feature for a long time: Gemini Notebook has added the ability to load (some but not all) ebooks purchased via Google Play Books; see notebook.google/expert-intel... for details and a free book offer. I am now reconsidering my ~18-year Kindle relationship...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A timely and multifaceted reality check www.thewikipedian.net/p/grokipedia...
thewikipedian.net
The World According to Grok
Is Grokipedia an existential threat, passing fad, or unexpected opportunity?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com
Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now.
Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
At least the Romans waited to be sacked by the Visigoths. This is being done from inside the White House.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Perhaps baby steps for ebooks + AI, but in the right direction: "Amazon is introducing a new “Recaps” feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a series. [...] Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch that recaps are AI-generated."
techcrunch.com
Amazon Kindle's new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series | TechCrunch
Amazon is introducing a new "Recaps" feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"The approaching 250th anniversary of US independence has the opportunity to be a turning point—the first chapter in an American democratic renewal that shines a light of freedom into even the darkest corners of the planet. We need the clarity to see the path and the courage to lead the way."
thenextmove.substack.com
Garry Kasparov: Why I’m Launching The Next Move
The enemies of freedom have a plan. It’s time we made one too.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Final paragraphs from a timely Elon Musk reality check by Jill Lepore -- gift source article link in reply
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Google Gemini 2.5 is the first public AI model to definitively beat the performance of human PhDs with access to Google on hard multiple choice problems inside their field of expertise (around 81%). All AI tests are flawed, but GPQA Diamond has been a pretty good one. & conducted independently.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"When you describe your topic, NotebookLM gathers hundreds of potential web sources in seconds. It analyzes them and picks the most relevant ones based on your defined topic. It presents up to 10 source recommendations, each with an annotated summary explaining its relevance to your topic."
blog.google
New in NotebookLM: Discover sources from around the web
NotebookLM has launched Discover Sources, which lets you add sources from the web to your notebook.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"You have to wonder whether Elon Musk’s Dunning-Kruger kids are now producing tariff numbers." [...] "If you had any hopes that Trump would step back from the brink, this announcement, between the very high tariff rates and the complete falsehoods about what other countries do, should kill them."
paulkrugman.substack.com
Trump Goes Crazy on Trade
“Liberation Day” is even worse than expected
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James Gleick @around.com · 02/04/2025
Consider the shameless greed of the tech billionaires and venture capitalists who are plundering #Wikipedia —nonprofit, crowd-sourced, and one of the wonders of the modern world—only to convert its highly reliable information into a far less reliable mash-up. #AI
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Excerpt:
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Check the source for an 8-part podcast episode series on Elon Musk by Jill Lepore.
thelastarchive.com
The Last Archive
The Last Archive is a show about how we know what we know and why it seems, lately, as if we don't know anything at all. Hosted by Jill Lepore.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Final paragraph from a stark Elon Musk business empire reality check:
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Excerpt:
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A timely NotebookLM update/overview
youtube.com
NotebookLM Just Got HUGE! 5 Game-Changing Features
YouTube video by Tiago Forte
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 17/03/2025
It turns out rule of law was on the ballot.
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My generous estimates, based on where SpaceX is with Starship & Tesla with Optimus. Mission launches 2026:40%, gets on trajectory to Mars:20%, Optimus demos in flight:5%, Starship soft lands:0.2%, Optimus walks on surface:0%. www.foxnews.com/tech/spacex-...
foxnews.com
SpaceX to send Starship to Mars next year, Elon Musk confirms
Elon Musk says SpaceX will go to Mars at the end of 2026 with Tesla's Optimus, a humanoid robot. If all goes well, humans could be headed to the red planet in 2029, Musk says.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Short thread by @samuelwa.de worth reading: Demolition of Radio Free Asia / VOA / etc is more self-lobotomization by US. (Not saying Trump/Doge are paid agents of Xi and Putin. But if CN and RU could buy control of US govt, this is their dream version of what their minions might do.)
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A nonsensical threat to: One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Dangerous madness. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Excerpt: "[...] what happens now that Trump has intentionally disobeyed a court order. The short answer is that the federal judges must hold Trump and subsidiary officials in civil contempt. The Supreme Court must affirm those findings. Civil contempt is not a pardonable offense."
roberthubbell.substack.com
The moment of crisis: Trump intentionally violates multiple court orders
March 17, 2025
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
9 years ago, Musk got big coverage for saying that his target for manned flights to Mars was 2025. 2025 has arrived. Those flights to Mars have not. Instead Musk has destroyed a social media co, is destroying a car co, and is wrecking US govt + US economy. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-swi...
washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ mission to Mars
In an exclusive interview, Musk said he hopes to land people on the Red Planet in 2025.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Interesting that not only Twitter is down, but also Grok web interfaces. Bigger infrastructure problem across the X-iverse than expected. I would have thought the systems more separated.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 10/03/2025
how about we compromise
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Excerpt: "This infection of Western chatbots was foreshadowed in a talk American fugitive turned Moscow based propagandist John Mark Dougan gave in Moscow last January [...] when he told them, “By pushing these Russian narratives from the Russian perspective, we can actually change worldwide AI.”"
newsguardrealitycheck.com
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Excerpt from another timely Paul Krugman reality check: "Does Trump know that he’s participating in a giant pump-and-dump that will benefit insiders while effectively stealing small investors’ savings? I have no idea, but there’s no reason to believe that it would bother him if he did know."
paulkrugman.substack.com
Trump Is Planning the Biggest Heist in History
The “strategic crypto reserve” will be a giant rug pull scam
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The Economist @economist.com · 06/03/2025
Investors, consumers and companies are showing the first signs of souring on Donald Trump’s vision. With his aggressive and erratic protectionism, he is playing with fire econ.st/41tx87X
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 03/03/2025
Wow if this turns out to be an advanced inside tip from someone, it's going to really set back the years of progress the crypto community have made in carefully establishing a reputation for trust and trans- Nah, I'm just kidding, this just tracks. See you at the next pump and dump everyone!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/03/2025
Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.
nytimes.com
Warren Buffett Rebukes Trump’s Tariffs Plan in CBS Interview: ‘Act of War’
The rebuke of President Trump’s tariff plans came just days before sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico were expected to go into effect.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Excerpt: "It's tempting to see the crypto scam only as a theft of money. But remember: These guys already have tons of money. Now they want power, and they see weakening the dollar and pumping crypto as keys to world domination."
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here Will Lockett gives a rather unfavorable comparison of the 1960s Saturn V (13/13 successful launches to orbit, 8 crewed to the Moon, including first crewed flight) and SpaceX Starship (0/7 to full orbit so far), and underperforming payload compared to promises. medium.com/predict/spac...
medium.com
SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Timothy Snyder: "Wars are hard to end. Peace is easy to say but difficult to achieve. [...] I spell out five logics that a successful mediator seeking peace would take into account: the state of law; the beginning of the war; calculations of the future; paper vs. reality; and ceasefire vs. peace."
snyder.substack.com
The Logic of Negotiation (video)
How to get from war to peace
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Great news for money launderers!
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As you watch the Trump regime wreck everything in sight, you should be regularly asking yourself this question: If the stated goal was to end democracy, ruin the economy, shred human rights, and aid our adversaries -- would the regime be doing anything differently?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
quote of the day www.ft.com/content/4221...
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
From a stark Timothy Snyder reality check (link in reply):
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Gift link (episode also available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere)
nytimes.com
Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, on Surviving the A.I. Endgame (Gift Article)
“I’m just worried that it’ll be a shock to people when it happens.”
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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Where is this uncertainty coming from? That’s easy: The U.S. government is currently under the control of a deeply ignorant, vengeful megalomaniac with zero impulse control. And it’s not just Elon Musk: Trump shares the same characteristics."
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 28/02/2025
It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate.   It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 28/02/2025
Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
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