Kit Paul
@kitpaul.com
I always loved drawing lines and writing words, so I co-founded a design consultancy, Brandient, to do that, but better.
“Today, dangerous ads don’t look suspicious; they look professional, familiar and seem to target your exact needs. On social networks, the same optimization engines designed to maximize engagement and conversion are being repurposed to maximize victimization.”
Gen Blogs | The Scam Ad Machine
Gen Blogs | The Scam Ad Machine
The Scam Ad Machine
Nearly one in three Meta ads found to point to a scam, phishing or malware
www.gendigital.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Today, dangerous ads don’t look suspicious; they look professional, familiar and seem to target your exact needs. On social networks, the same optimization engines designed to maximize engagement and conversion are being repurposed to maximize victimization.”
Gen Blogs | The Scam Ad Machine
Gen Blogs | The Scam Ad Machine
As the great ICE age sets in, the great digital migration starts.
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native • The Register
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native • The Register
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Opinion: Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you
www.theregister.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
As the great ICE age sets in, the great digital migration starts.
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native • The Register
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native • The Register
The orange Palpatine wants planet Hoth.
January 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The orange Palpatine wants planet Hoth.
“We are watching in real-time as the post-World War II international order that the United States built and led for 80 years crumbles because one man’s ego couldn’t handle not getting an award.”
Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/e...
Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/e...
Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. Why Won’t Congress Stop It?
Look, I know we’ve all gotten somewhat numb to the constant stream of unhinged pronouncements from the White House. At some point, the brain develops defense mechanisms. But every now and the…
www.techdirt.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“We are watching in real-time as the post-World War II international order that the United States built and led for 80 years crumbles because one man’s ego couldn’t handle not getting an award.”
Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/e...
Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/e...
“Roadmaps are promises.
Support documentation is confession.”
Excellent article, part of a whole series of insightful texts.
Competitive Analysis Beyond the Surface branici.ro/2026/01/18/c...
Support documentation is confession.”
Excellent article, part of a whole series of insightful texts.
Competitive Analysis Beyond the Surface branici.ro/2026/01/18/c...
Competitive Analysis Beyond the Surface
Competitive intelligence isn’t a collection of competitors’ marketing materials. It may start there, but it has to go further.
branici.ro
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
“Roadmaps are promises.
Support documentation is confession.”
Excellent article, part of a whole series of insightful texts.
Competitive Analysis Beyond the Surface branici.ro/2026/01/18/c...
Support documentation is confession.”
Excellent article, part of a whole series of insightful texts.
Competitive Analysis Beyond the Surface branici.ro/2026/01/18/c...
“Printed out in 14-point type, a 200-billion-parameter model, such as GPT4o (released by OpenAI in 2024), could fill 46 square miles of paper—roughly enough to cover San Francisco. The largest models would cover the city of Los Angeles.”
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM
“Printed out in 14-point type, a 200-billion-parameter model, such as GPT4o (released by OpenAI in 2024), could fill 46 square miles of paper—roughly enough to cover San Francisco. The largest models would cover the city of Los Angeles.”
The Nazi app pivoting to Nazi-and-porn won’t make thick-skin people and advertisers leave the platform. Those opposing Musk’s school of thoughts left the platform years ago. Those left are not fundamentally opposed to fascism and toxic speech.
www.perplexity.ai/page/why-are...
www.perplexity.ai/page/why-are...
Why are Grok and X still available in app stores?
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has generated thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google removed other nudify apps but still host...
www.perplexity.ai
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The Nazi app pivoting to Nazi-and-porn won’t make thick-skin people and advertisers leave the platform. Those opposing Musk’s school of thoughts left the platform years ago. Those left are not fundamentally opposed to fascism and toxic speech.
www.perplexity.ai/page/why-are...
www.perplexity.ai/page/why-are...
There was no bingo card for the alternate universe where Russian forces started equipping horses with Starlink terminals and video cameras.
www.perplexity.ai/page/rusia-m...
www.perplexity.ai/page/rusia-m...
Russia Mounts Starlink Terminals on Horses in Ukraine
Footage of Starlink terminals attached to horses surfaced Wednesday on social media, filmed according to sources by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The video,...
www.perplexity.ai
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
There was no bingo card for the alternate universe where Russian forces started equipping horses with Starlink terminals and video cameras.
www.perplexity.ai/page/rusia-m...
www.perplexity.ai/page/rusia-m...
“#Claude Code is not AGI. But for the first time, I can viscerally feel that truly transformative capabilities are within touching distance.
The hypotheticals of the AI policy debate — mass unemployment, catastrophic risks, the end of knowledge work as we know it — no longer feel hypothetical.”
The hypotheticals of the AI policy debate — mass unemployment, catastrophic risks, the end of knowledge work as we know it — no longer feel hypothetical.”
January 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM
“#Claude Code is not AGI. But for the first time, I can viscerally feel that truly transformative capabilities are within touching distance.
The hypotheticals of the AI policy debate — mass unemployment, catastrophic risks, the end of knowledge work as we know it — no longer feel hypothetical.”
The hypotheticals of the AI policy debate — mass unemployment, catastrophic risks, the end of knowledge work as we know it — no longer feel hypothetical.”
“The question isn’t ‘is this a coding task?’ It’s ‘can this be done digitally?’ If the answer is yes, there is a very good chance that #Claude Code can do it.”
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“The question isn’t ‘is this a coding task?’ It’s ‘can this be done digitally?’ If the answer is yes, there is a very good chance that #Claude Code can do it.”
Claude Code is about so much more than coding www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-cod...
While I’m not an expert, my experience aligns with the article’s author: (while #ChatGPT and #Codex are nearly unusable for actual code work,) #Claude Code is a transformative tool and sometimes a true wonder.
While I’m not an expert, my experience aligns with the article’s author: (while #ChatGPT and #Codex are nearly unusable for actual code work,) #Claude Code is a transformative tool and sometimes a true wonder.
Claude Code is about so much more than coding
It’s a general-purpose AI agent. And it’s already a pretty good knowledge worker
www.transformernews.ai
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Claude Code is about so much more than coding www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-cod...
While I’m not an expert, my experience aligns with the article’s author: (while #ChatGPT and #Codex are nearly unusable for actual code work,) #Claude Code is a transformative tool and sometimes a true wonder.
While I’m not an expert, my experience aligns with the article’s author: (while #ChatGPT and #Codex are nearly unusable for actual code work,) #Claude Code is a transformative tool and sometimes a true wonder.
Airstrikes on Venezuela with over 150 aircraft and capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife came less than a month after Trump received FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize from FIFA.
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Airstrikes on Venezuela with over 150 aircraft and capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife came less than a month after Trump received FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize from FIFA.
“Beijing has been preparing for Cold War without eagerness for waging it, while the US wants to wage a Cold War without preparing for it.”
January 5, 2026 at 8:30 AM
“Beijing has been preparing for Cold War without eagerness for waging it, while the US wants to wage a Cold War without preparing for it.”
“Call me a romantic, but I believe that there will be a future, and indeed a long future, beyond 2027. History will not end.”
2025 letter | Dan Wang danwang.co/2025-letter/
2025 letter | Dan Wang danwang.co/2025-letter/
2025 letter | Dan Wang
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
danwang.co
January 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Call me a romantic, but I believe that there will be a future, and indeed a long future, beyond 2027. History will not end.”
2025 letter | Dan Wang danwang.co/2025-letter/
2025 letter | Dan Wang danwang.co/2025-letter/
kitblog.com/namejack-epi...
I wrote a few things about Namejack, an app that I build and rebuild since 2008. I hope it’s the first episode, out of many, on this (seriously vast) subject.
#swiftui
I wrote a few things about Namejack, an app that I build and rebuild since 2008. I hope it’s the first episode, out of many, on this (seriously vast) subject.
#swiftui
Namejack, Episode 1 – Kit Paul
In Brandient, we create lots of names, and each public-facing brand name has been eventually picked out of one or more lists of final candidates. Each list of final brand name candidates is voted out…
kitblog.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
kitblog.com/namejack-epi...
I wrote a few things about Namejack, an app that I build and rebuild since 2008. I hope it’s the first episode, out of many, on this (seriously vast) subject.
#swiftui
I wrote a few things about Namejack, an app that I build and rebuild since 2008. I hope it’s the first episode, out of many, on this (seriously vast) subject.
#swiftui
“English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want.”
December 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want.”
Landslide; a ghost story www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
This is truly insightful. I highly recommend reading it.
This is truly insightful. I highly recommend reading it.
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end…
www.wrecka.ge
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Landslide; a ghost story www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
This is truly insightful. I highly recommend reading it.
This is truly insightful. I highly recommend reading it.
“The problem with all of us being so much more a hive mind than we realize is that knowledge problems that ripple across our a information ecosystems can become not just threats to individuals with weak character or bad habits, but the equivalent of colony collapse.”
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“The problem with all of us being so much more a hive mind than we realize is that knowledge problems that ripple across our a information ecosystems can become not just threats to individuals with weak character or bad habits, but the equivalent of colony collapse.”
“Researchers who conducted experiments in Japan concluded that subjects who consumed traditional news were likely to know objectively more while expressing humility about their knowledge, while subjects who used social media to consume news tended to know less while overestimating their knowledge.”
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Researchers who conducted experiments in Japan concluded that subjects who consumed traditional news were likely to know objectively more while expressing humility about their knowledge, while subjects who used social media to consume news tended to know less while overestimating their knowledge.”
Diesel Ultrahuman Ring uncrate.com/diesel-ultra...
When naming products, remember that the distinction between a superhero-like feel and full-blown fascism is subjective and lays only in the eye of the beholder.
When naming products, remember that the distinction between a superhero-like feel and full-blown fascism is subjective and lays only in the eye of the beholder.
Diesel Ultrahuman Ring
Developed under the creative direction of Glenn Martens, the Diesel Ultrahuman Ring brings the denim brand into the wearable space. The ring itself sports the brand's "Double D" design on the…
uncrate.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Diesel Ultrahuman Ring uncrate.com/diesel-ultra...
When naming products, remember that the distinction between a superhero-like feel and full-blown fascism is subjective and lays only in the eye of the beholder.
When naming products, remember that the distinction between a superhero-like feel and full-blown fascism is subjective and lays only in the eye of the beholder.
What would be a nice park or pool without that thick skin SMOKER? You stare at them and they stare back seemingly oblivious to their stink.
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What would be a nice park or pool without that thick skin SMOKER? You stare at them and they stare back seemingly oblivious to their stink.
Reposted by Kit Paul
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted