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Remco van Mook @rvmnl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still find it incredible that somehow we're led to believe we have this incredible world changing technology, but the only stable shape we seem to be able to ship it in looks like a 1990s IRC chat client.

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Remco van Mook @rvmnl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Your question is the least important thing an AI model processes: the standing wrapper around it runs to thousands of words, outranks any instructions you gave it and grows every update. No model at any price sells the mode that treats you like an adult. i15s.org/essays/nanny...

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The Nanny Layer | Interdependencies

AI products ship a values layer the buyer cannot see, override or escape

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Remco van Mook @rvmnl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ICANN closed its new gTLD window: 1,600 applications at 227k each, ~$500M spent until now. The 2012 round was audited: benefits unmeasurable, chapters added on phishing and parking instead. Zero new ideas, just more toll booths. New long read.

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A .horse by any other name | Interdependencies

ICANN's gTLD expansion sells suffixes the market has priced at nothing

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Remco van Mook @rvmnl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yesterday I published The Great Mispricing, on how regulatory tools are no longer effective. Yesterday was also when the US Treasury permanently repealed beneficial ownership reporting and will delete the data already filed. The law itself is still on the books. i15s.org/essays/the-g...

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The Great Mispricing | Interdependencies

Corporations now run at scales beyond entire advanced economies, and this time no state can hold them

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Remco van Mook @rvmnl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New site: Interdependencies. Long reads from the junctions between infrastructure, capital and law — nothing interesting ever breaks in one discipline at a time. Five essays up. i15s.org (yes, that's a numeronym; I'm still a nerd)

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Interdependencies | Interdependencies

Essays on the intersection of technology, finance, and geopolitics.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/09/2025

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)