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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Feb 12

An idea so crazy that even the North Koreans think it's insane.

www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/no...

North Korea condemns Trump's Gaza takeover proposal as 'ludicrous'

SEOUL: North Korean state media on Wednesday (Feb 12) denounced United States President Donald Trump's proposal to take over Gaza and relocate Palestinians as ludicrous and accused Washin

www.channelnewsasia.com

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Michael Smith Jr. @deepgeneralist.bsky.social · Jan 19

Hard to argue with a lot of this

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 19

Joe Biden had one job. And he failed | Mehdi Hasan

The president was supposed to defeat Donald Trump and end the threat he posed to our democracy. Yet, here we are “You had one job.” As we bid farewell to the 46th president of the United States, I can’t get that Ocean’s 11-inspired internet meme out of…

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 17

2/ Link to the full report:
linguasinica.substack.com/p/free_china...

@chinamediaproject.bsky.social

[FREE]_China_Chatbot_13

What happens when Chinese AI meets Chinese media

linguasinica.substack.com

Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 17

1/ Lingua Sinica has a fascinating look at China's AI and how that plays out in the information space.

Try asking DeepSeek LLM (which has impressed researchers around the world for its capabilities) about Assad's human rights record in Syria. 😲

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 14

4/ The real freedom comes when you own these definitions. When things don't go as planned (and they won't), you'll have clarity instead of chaos.

Draw that line in the sand early. How are you defining failure in your journey? How will you move forward from what you started?

Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 14

3/ But neither success nor failure is final. They're just chapters in your story. But you need to write these chapters yourself — no one else will give you permission to succeed OR fail.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 14

2/ It's a recurring theme that I see from a lot of media entrepreneurs: a lack of clear boundaries around how far they could take their startups.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 14

1/ Everyone likes to talk about success, but few are keen to talk about potential failure. This is something that's come up in several coaching calls that I've done recently.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 11

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

www.theatlantic.com

Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

I can’t tell if a figurative gun was put to his head, or if he did this out of ambition and opportunity.

Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

6/ This is staggering.

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

www.wired.com

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

5/ And it gets worse: Meta will fight any government when it comes to national hate speech laws. “We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” said Zuckerberg.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

4/ Meta now allows you to call gay people mentally ill. Or to say that Chinese people brought Covid everywhere. Or that women can’t get certain jobs because of their gender.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

3/ My worry is not so much about the loss of fact-checking newsrooms around the world, but something bigger in what Zuckerberg called a “cultural tipping point” toward “speech”:

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

2/ These fact-checking efforts were also unscaleable — social media news cycles are short and fast, making it difficult for any journalist to debunk lies as quickly as they appear. In the age of engagement-optimized generated AI content, this is an impossible fight.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

1/ Meta’s fact-checking initiatives were never done in good faith — it was a token nod to the news industry.

Meta’s advertising platforms are primed to ensure that emotionally charged posts get the most attention — factual or not.

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

I would like to take credit for that but sorry unfortunately you've got the wrong Splice -- those are the other guys. 😜

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 9

Civic duty doesn't matter unless there's a law compelling them to act. :(

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Nov 27

Just stumbled on this. Much needed. Thank you, Tyler.

Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com · Nov 22

Excited to announce the public beta for Sill, my new link collection tool for Bluesky and Mastodon! Sill connects to your accounts and watches your timelines for new links. It then aggregates those and shows you the most popular links in your network. Yes, it's like Nuzzel. Sign up at sill.social!

Sill

Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

sill.social

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Should have been written by A1!

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Nov 14

"It is a model of political engagement that is not political at all. Any morsels of political ideology are cloaked entirely within a lifestyle that these content creators are selling — and young men are buying... [this is] more cultural than political in nature.”

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

What Democrats Don’t Understand About Joe Rogan

The future of American political engagement is barely political at all.

www.politico.com

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Nov 13

What happens on Bsky stays on Bsky.

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