Henrik Sköld
@henrikskold.bsky.social
Helping companies and organizations prepare for the future #marketintelligence #foresight
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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People exposed to messages about AI as a labor-replacing (instead of labor-creating) technology end up distrusting democracy and show less willingness to engage politically with future AI developments. Interesting in @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Perceiving AI as labor-replacing reduces democratic legitimacy and political engagement | PNAS
AI is expected to reshape society and labor markets, yet experts remain divided on
whether AI will primarily displace human labor or generate new e...
www.pnas.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:14 AM
People exposed to messages about AI as a labor-replacing (instead of labor-creating) technology end up distrusting democracy and show less willingness to engage politically with future AI developments. Interesting in @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The new Global Risks Report from WEF -- trade wars and actual wars top the list. www.weforum.org/publications...
The Global Risks Report 2026
The Global Risks Report 2026 analyses global risks through three timeframes to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.
www.weforum.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
The new Global Risks Report from WEF -- trade wars and actual wars top the list. www.weforum.org/publications...
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Our highest loyalty doesn't belong to people or parties. It belongs to principles.
If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies.
Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.
If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies.
Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Our highest loyalty doesn't belong to people or parties. It belongs to principles.
If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies.
Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.
If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies.
Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.
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People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world. They mistake swagger for strength & skill.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Opinion | Why We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders, Starting in Grade School
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world. They mistake swagger for strength & skill.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
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"This is a strategy that lacks the imagination to anticipate that other countries are already hedging against U.S. power and could well move to construct a post-American order that shields against U.S. influence." foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/08/t...
The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War
The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a moral and strategic disaster.
foreignpolicy.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"This is a strategy that lacks the imagination to anticipate that other countries are already hedging against U.S. power and could well move to construct a post-American order that shields against U.S. influence." foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/08/t...
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Pope: AI won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.
AI: There is no Pope.
AI: There is no Pope.
I thought I might try the same experiment with a bit more context, and - I dunno - it seems to have stumbled a bit with the basic facts…
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pope: AI won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.
AI: There is no Pope.
AI: There is no Pope.
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yes, this is the path forward. IN a restaurant normally I want to choose what I eat as well, in stead of the chef choosing FOR me. IN those cases where I want to be surprised, I want to CHOOSE to.
Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.
To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...
To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...
What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.
www.techpolicy.press
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
yes, this is the path forward. IN a restaurant normally I want to choose what I eat as well, in stead of the chef choosing FOR me. IN those cases where I want to be surprised, I want to CHOOSE to.
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Thought-to-speech implants are getting good enough that they need trigger safe words, or risk blurting out the user's private inner dialogue -- www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...
Brain implants that decode a person's inner voice may threaten privacy
A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner monologue. That could help paralyzed people communicate, but also suggests scientists are one step closer to reading a person's thoughts.
www.npr.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thought-to-speech implants are getting good enough that they need trigger safe words, or risk blurting out the user's private inner dialogue -- www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...
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Useful to remember than when Silicon Valley CEOs make predictions, they’re generally not predicting what is likely to happen - they’re usually stating what they’d like to happen (or at least, what they’d like other people to think is going to happen).
July 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Useful to remember than when Silicon Valley CEOs make predictions, they’re generally not predicting what is likely to happen - they’re usually stating what they’d like to happen (or at least, what they’d like other people to think is going to happen).
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💥 🍃 🏥 New Stem Cell Therapy Effective for Severe Diabetes (Type 1)
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Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients
New England Journal of Medicine Report
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549
Gift Article NYT
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Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients
New England Journal of Medicine Report
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549
Gift Article NYT
People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
💥 🍃 🏥 New Stem Cell Therapy Effective for Severe Diabetes (Type 1)
🧪
Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients
New England Journal of Medicine Report
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549
Gift Article NYT
🧪
Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients
New England Journal of Medicine Report
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549
Gift Article NYT
Amazing tool visualizing technological history
June 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Amazing tool visualizing technological history
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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
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Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report
The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Breakthrough in Wild Barley Genomics paves the way for climate-resilient crops www.murdoch.edu.au/news/article...
Breakthrough in Wild Barley Genomics paves the way for climate-resilient crops
An international team of scientists from Australia and China has unveiled the first chromosome-scale genome of a wild barley species.
www.murdoch.edu.au
March 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Breakthrough in Wild Barley Genomics paves the way for climate-resilient crops www.murdoch.edu.au/news/article...
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Today, tomorrow, always.
I want to honour the courage of women around the world fighting for their most fundamental rights in the face of adversity.
The EU stands with you, and will continue to so, until equality becomes an enduring reality.
I want to honour the courage of women around the world fighting for their most fundamental rights in the face of adversity.
The EU stands with you, and will continue to so, until equality becomes an enduring reality.
March 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Today, tomorrow, always.
I want to honour the courage of women around the world fighting for their most fundamental rights in the face of adversity.
The EU stands with you, and will continue to so, until equality becomes an enduring reality.
I want to honour the courage of women around the world fighting for their most fundamental rights in the face of adversity.
The EU stands with you, and will continue to so, until equality becomes an enduring reality.
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Instead of paralysis due to everything that’s happening, we as Europeans should now figure out what to make of this, project out 5-10 years what the world might look like, and start making decisions to shape outcomes.
February 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Instead of paralysis due to everything that’s happening, we as Europeans should now figure out what to make of this, project out 5-10 years what the world might look like, and start making decisions to shape outcomes.
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Three scenarios for the geopolitical world of 2035:
www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...
Three worlds in 2035: Imagining scenarios for how the world could be transformed over the next decade
The Atlantic Council’s top experts brought their globe-spanning expertise to the task of forecasting three different scenarios for the future.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Three scenarios for the geopolitical world of 2035:
www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...
I'm trying out Bluesky, looking for a replacement for another social media site.
I work as an independent consultant and advisor, helping companies, organizations and individuals prepare for the future.
Looking forward to interacting with other people interested in the world and our future.
I work as an independent consultant and advisor, helping companies, organizations and individuals prepare for the future.
Looking forward to interacting with other people interested in the world and our future.
February 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm trying out Bluesky, looking for a replacement for another social media site.
I work as an independent consultant and advisor, helping companies, organizations and individuals prepare for the future.
Looking forward to interacting with other people interested in the world and our future.
I work as an independent consultant and advisor, helping companies, organizations and individuals prepare for the future.
Looking forward to interacting with other people interested in the world and our future.