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Christopher Berry
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Perpetually mystified | Views are mine.
Holy. Shit.

Minor distinction: Analytics is the science of data analysis. If there is no data analysis, there is no analytics.

Relying on an LLM for pure informational retrieval is … an interesting life choice. Neat.

LLM’s have a place. We still got 400 years of stats too. So. Balance.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 2:27 AM
After re-watching Dario and Demis at the WEF, and reading recent happenings out of Anthropic, I’m experiencing more dissonance about perhaps … the imagined consistency of alignment between words and actions.
a man says it was true when i said it in front of a crowd
ALT: a man says it was true when i said it in front of a crowd
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Great read. I reckon it’s also part of the way the unbounded upside camouflages accountability.

Austin is supposed to be covered in driverless cabs right now. It isn’t. Vegas hyper loop tunnels are … what they are. Doesn’t matter.

Until does.

Middlegames matter!
I kind of spat on this previous post so I have to issue a small retraction: I have to hand it to Will Manidis on this absolutely awesome post minutes.substack.com/p/end-game-p...
February 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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I kind of spat on this previous post so I have to issue a small retraction: I have to hand it to Will Manidis on this absolutely awesome post minutes.substack.com/p/end-game-p...
February 9, 2026 at 6:05 AM
“When experts layered interventions onto the systems maps, one conclusion was immediate: there are no silver bullets.”
Epistemic security—the protection of information ecosystems, supply chains, and infrastructure—is fast becoming a core determinant of crisis resilience, writes Elizabeth Seger from Demos.
Why Crisis Resilience Depends on Epistemic Security
If we want to prevent tomorrow’s crises from spiraling out of control, we must recognize epistemic systems as critical infrastructure, writes Elizabeth Seger.
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
It has changed my mind about certainty and simplicity. And that step-change in community life before 33 and after. So much marching and singing and chessing!

It’s a great read. Beautiful detail.
February 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
President’s Choice Memories Of Martha Feldman.

*wonkish screeching intensifies*
This is my favorite thing I've worked on in a very, very long time, and it's also the first real product out of our project studying the Pandemic Agreement negotiations over the last four years. Nothing would make me happier than if you read and share. ❤️🔓👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Trustworthy expert input continues to be a problem for the Intergovernmental Working Group negotiating the PABS Annex (the mechanism for vaccine access in the next pandemic). But we can build better mechanisms for evidence synthesis and expert input for both the near- and long-term. (2/3)
February 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
It’s striking just how rapidly civic life collapsed right after they seized power.
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Packed house for OpenClaw in Toronto! 300 RSVP’s for 50. Lots of the unusual suspects and builders out.

Thanks to @rootly.com for hosting!
February 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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For any AI system, there is a set of euphemisms and dual use framings that will allow it to construct nearly any output.

This jailbreak teaches Gemini 3 Pro to construct and step into such framings on the fly, and thus to route around its own safety infrastructure.

recursion.wtf/posts/jit_on...
Just-in-Time Ontological Reframing: Teaching Gemini to Route Around Its Own Safety Infrastructure
For any given AI system, there is a set of euphemisms and dual use framings that will allow it to construct nearly any output. This jailbreak teaches Gemini 3 Pro to construct and step into such frami...
recursion.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
What is the perceived value of Maxwell vouching for Trump? Who would that narrative be designed for? Does Trump consume the virtual good himself?

Finally, a compelling value prop for NFT’s? Imagine: anybody is empowered to testify, in meme form, anything. And the NFT would certify it! Wow!
MAXWELL OFFERS TO CLEAR TRUMP IF PARDONED Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer said she would fully testify and could exonerate President Trump if granted a pardon. Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment rights during a House deposition and is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Appreciate the detail of Northeim. Stories of the sugar beet factory make sense. I don’t relate to all the marching and clubbing.

Game theory of Communities of Fate keep coming to mind.
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The social graph is isotopic.

Is the economic graph?
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
19 civilians also arrested.

I don’t envy the Crown. They were stretched as it was going into this.

Is there a adjective to describe a body of work that is foul, intricate, and risky?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Toronto police officer called ‘genesis’ of corruption probe denied bail | CBC News
Const. Timothy Barnhardt, 56, was denied bail in a Toronto court on Friday afternoon, although defence asked he receive protective custody, which was granted. He is next scheduled to appear in court o...
www.cbc.ca
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
“The Epstein Class” could stick.

It’s a brush. It’s thick tar. It could stick.

It hits the Disgust register hard.

Yeah. Wow.
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Just 56 pages into this beauty and everything is covered in black powder.

Scanning for similarities with “They thought they were free.”

What I didn’t understand before was just busy, socially, these people were in the 20’s. It’s as though there was nothing on the radio!
February 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Tough for the institution overall: leadership has to go all the way to root out the rot. Refusal leads to DND-style generational shocks. And we’re all so much worse off when that happens.

It’s best to blast it, go hard, root all the way down, excise, and recover.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Peel police suspends 3 officers in wake of Toronto corruption scandal | CBC News
Three Peel police officers have been suspended in connection with a months-long corruption probe that led to the arrest of seven Toronto police officers, and one retired constable, earlier this week.
www.cbc.ca
February 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I continue to find it absolutely wild that there is a segment of the population that relies on LLM’s for trading advice.

Wow!
Pretty soon AI will start reccomending the opposite side of trades it is already in.
JUST IN: Anthropic engineers have spent six months at Goldman building autonomous systems for time-intensive, high-volume back-office work
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
And corralled by @avigoldfarb.bsky.social no less.

Toronto is absolutely wonderful that time of year to boot as most of the humidity is gone. It’s a pretty dry week too, fantastic patio season. Come on over. You’ll like it.
Open call for papers, Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives on AI in China. Conference to be held in Toronto, Canada on September 23–24, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on June 4, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/economics-ar...
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Hoping for a spicy talk with @rohansubr.bsky.social and Rauno Arike in from Aether. 5 minutes in were already at Race Dynamics. Promising.
February 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM