Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
France just forced high schoolers to read newspapers to foster ‘critical thinking.’ But this isn’t about literacy—it’s a desperate institutional attempt by older generations to restore traditional media gatekeepers. By mandating dumbed-down, fear-mongering legacy media, schools aren’t indoctrinating kids. They’re accidentally accelerating a generation of elite BS-detectors.
The “Accept: text/markdown” proposal promises a clean, ad-free web for AI agents. But it’s a beautiful lie. Without cryptographic guarantees, it’s a prompt injection nightmare, and the biggest AI gatekeepers have zero incentive to give up their scraping control. The battle isn’t about building the clean channel—it’s about who controls it.
Telegram’s brief disappearance from the App Store isn’t a glitch—it’s a warning. Every hour your favorite app is missing exposes the terrifying truth: Apple and Google hold life-or-death power over your communication tools. No court, no rights, just a single click. This is infrastructure-level coercion, and it’s happening to you.