donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com#
Donald Clark Plan B: My favourite AI quote….#
To moderate our individualism, we created Medieval institutions to dampen our human folly. It was thought that the wisdom, not of the crowd, but of middle managers and technocrats, would dampen our forays into emotional extremes. Yet these institutions have become fossilised, full of bottlenecks and groupthink that are often centuries old, incapable of navigating us forward into the future. Often they are more about protecting those within the institutions themselves than serving their members, citizens, students or customers. We lack trust in global institutions, political institutions, educational institutions, businesses and so on, as we see how self-serving they often become.
4/5/2026, 7:19:49 PM
By framing the problem in terms our evolutionary, Paleolithic legacy, as evolved, emotional beings, he recognises that we are limited in our capabilities, cognitively capped. Far from being exceptional, almost all that we do is being done, or will be done, by technology. This we refuse to accept, even after Copernicus and Darwin, as we are attached to emotional thought, beliefs rather than knowledge, emotional concepts such a soul, Romanticism around creativity and so on. We are incapable of looking beyond our vanity, have some humility and get over ourselves.
4/5/2026, 7:19:26 PM
www.execfunctions.org
The Second Most Consequential Unilateral Use of Force in American History#
The Iran conflict thus marks a new low in the deterioration of Congress’s check on presidential war unilateralism. The president has effectively dismissed the need for serious engagement with Congress even for this large-scale conflict that has scrambled alliances, rattled energy and financial markets, and drawn the entire world into crisis. And he has made a joke of it. In a statement that mocked his lawyers and taunted Congress, the president kidded that he should avoid saying “war”—the term he and senior officials have regularly used—because “you’re supposed to get approval.”
- post-truth, the optics, the bending of legal statures on technicalities. framing of these moves as savy over dishonest, encourages fraudulent behaviors.
4/2/2026, 11:09:26 AM
President Harry Truman’s controversial and groundbreaking unilateral decision in 1950 to join the fight on the Korean Peninsula.
4/2/2026, 11:01:37 AM
But just one month in, Operation Epic Fury is already among the most consequential unauthorized presidential uses of force in all of American history—probably the second most consequential, after the Korean War. It’s also a new nadir in the decline of Congress’s check on presidential war.
4/2/2026, 11:01:10 AM
www.middleeastmonitor.com
When presidents lie, diplomacy dies: The global cost of post-truth under Trump – Middle East Monitor#
The cost of this ‘post-truth’ diplomacy is most visible in the justifications for the war on Iran. President Trump repeatedly claimed military action was a response to an ‘imminent threat’ and an accelerating nuclear program, yet the U.S. intelligence community has declined to endorse this. During congressional testimony, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard notably sidestepped the ‘imminent threat’ claim, stating instead that such ‘determinations’ are the President’s alone. Furthermore, while the administration cites preventing a ‘global catastrophe’ as a primary goal, the war was launched even as indirect negotiations were underway in Oman to prevent that very disaster. This disconnect peaked this week when Trump’s claims of ‘major points of agreement’ were immediately dismissed by Tehran as ‘fake news.’
- also how initially it was presented as israel’s sole doing but later, in its success was proclaimed by the united states as their intelligent work.
3/30/2026, 2:44:34 PM
Meanwhile, career diplomats and ad-hoc envoys are trapped in an impossible position: unable to walk back his statements or openly correct them, they are left to navigate a geopolitical minefield guided by a map of falsehoods issued from the highest echelon of power.
- awkward…
3/30/2026, 2:44:01 PM
the architect of foreign policy is untethered from objective reality
3/30/2026, 2:43:34 PM
www.undp.org
Post-truth-future | United Nations Development Programme#
Even the gradual personalisation of online news feeds is exacerbating echo chambers, as AI algorithms curate content based on a user’s past consumption, interests and even location, creating “filter bubbles” where people only see information that confirms their existing beliefs.
- performative predictions, how online algorithms shape the very distributions that they aim to approximate or learn. so they play an active role.
3/30/2026, 2:29:57 PM
Over 60% of people surveyed in 28 countries believe that establishment leaders – in politics, business and journalism - are purposely trying to mislead by saying things they know are false or exaggerated.
- post-truth politics, people assume that politicians lie as a first instinct.
3/30/2026, 2:28:37 PM