Martin Enlund

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December 12 2025
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Personalised Propaganda: How the Easter Parade Never Ended

Using words to influence behaviour is not a new phenomenon. However, the scale, speed, and precision with which language can be used as a weapon IS new. Today, researchers using AI wish to use "well-formed linguistic input" to cure depression. But an algorithm that can formulate a cure can, just as easily, formulate a poison.

October 21 2025
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Wherever something is wrong, something is too big

Serious IT problems have once again affected large parts of the internet now in the wake of Amazon's troubles. "Wherever something is wrong, something is too big", Leopold Kohr wrote in 1978 - an idea worth revisiting.

October 6 2025
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A child's laughter: an algorithmic product?

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, said recently that the human brain is nothing but a biological computer. He was completely certain of this. But is that really the case?

September 20 2025
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Chat Control 2: Digitalising the Panopticon

Europe’s assault on free speech has become widespread and far-reaching. But every step toward a surveillance state is a step away from functional democracy. If citizens fear speaking freely, policymaking will eventually rely on guesses and lies. And democracy becomes a theatre.

September 5 2025
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Money that rots like potatoes

We might ask ourselves why the ECB insists on comparing the digital euro with cash - given that the proposed system is fundamentally different. Indeed, why does the central bank insist on gaslighting the citizens of Europe? And why do so few media outlets call them out?

August 25 2025
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Until the opposite has been proven

The core principle of presumed innocence is currently being undermined year by year. The emerging new world order, marked by age controls, introduces a new perverse inversion: one's humanity is no longer assumed, unless proven otherwise...

July 18 2025
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EU - a self-licking ice cream cone?

The concept of "self-licking ice cream cone" originates from an analysis of the Kuwait War 1991. Three decades later, the EU's funding of activists - who in turn drive the bureaucracy towards its own goals - appears as a farcical repetition.

June 30 2025
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Your savings - or Brussel's covert slush fund?

Eurocrats are talking about "“channel private savings” into investments. Is the EU simply drawing inspiration from countries such as Sweden, or might something more nefarious be afoot?

March 9 2025
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Time for a more radical Europe

The EU is facing "existential challenges", but neither the Draghi report nor the Commission's Competitive Compass will be enough to solve the challenges. A radical return to Europe's roots is what is required!

March 2 2025
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The Superstimulus Trap: From Bird Eggs to AI

We face a near future where we may soon have access to almost everything we desire – at least in the digital realm. Unfortunately, what we wish for doesn’t always align with what we truly need.