Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela: Heather Cox Richardson

The Trump administration takes aim at the rules based international order.

Beyond Epstein to performative populism and Marjorie Taylor Green

An interesting conversation that refuses to indulge in speculation about the Epstein papers, while noting that Trump seems terrified off them and so is increasingly distracted, and moves from populism through peformativity and on the Marjorie Taylor Green as an odd sort of bell weather.

The Tide Turned This Week | Heather Cox Richardson

Read “The sleeping giant is awakening“ by Robert Reich here: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-is-awakening

We need a new set of concepts (ontology) for talking about AI

I think our entire ontology for how we talk about and conceptualise A[G]I is confused. And I wouldn't be surprised if in ten years we will look back at the discourse today and laugh at how primitive some ideas are. A few hot and uncertain takes:

The way people talk about future… pic.twitter.com/1o5oilqzQh

— Séb Krier (@sebkrier) September 18, 2025

From deeper into this long tweet:

The way people talk about future AIs/AGIs feels like a category error. Sometimes they reify future systems as self-sovereign entities with their own goals and incentives, a different species that we need to learn to co-exist with. I think that's not impossible, and I used to be a lot more sympathetic to this view, but I'm a lot less certain now and it's certainly not self-evident. Agents can still be tools, and tool agents that operate along timelines don't need to necessarily be 'separate species'-like. [...]

To me at least, AGI will likely be a distributed ecosystem of different models, built by different companies and state actors, with different capabilities, architectures, and incentive structures.