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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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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."

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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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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...

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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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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Understood & appreciated -- thanks for sharing your perspective

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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

If he didn't care he wouldn't have asked Trump to do a White House (illegal) Telsa promotion or held an all-hands Tesla meeting and implored Tesla employees to not sell their stock. He also won't be able to as readily fund Trump or other candidates (worldwide), as his TSLA stock crashes.

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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

On a related note from a February NYT article (gift link in next reply):

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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 · 23/03/2025

Seems pretty desperate to restore Tesla’s momentum, and leveraging X to the max; not looking like afterthoughts to me

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Peter O'Kelly @pbokelly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Also added interactive mind maps -- here's a snapshot of one for the overview

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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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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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