Articles

How the Easter Parade Never Ended

• Martin Enlund
• 12/12/25

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.

Won't someone please think of the children?

• Martin Enlund
• 11/11/25

New laws eroding privacy always follow a tired script: Invoke the “four horsemen of the infocalypse” to scare us into accepting surveillance “for the children” or “for security.” The reality is, neither our kids nor the public are any safer, just less free.

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big

• Martin Enlund
• 10/21/25

In mid-July 2024, computers in large parts of the world were hit by serious IT problems. Massive disruptions followed at airlines, stock exchanges, and stores globally. Nearly 10 million computers were affected.

A child's laughter: an algorithmic product?

• Martin Enlund
• 10/5/25

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?

Chat Control 2: Digitalizing the Panopticon

• Martin Enlund
• 9/20/25

Europe’s assault on free speech has become widespread and far-reaching. In Germany, a journalist was fined and given a suspended prison sentence this spring for circulating a satirical image of the interior minister captioned “I hate free speech.”

When Justice Fails the Vulnerable

• Martin Enlund
• 9/20/25

A video of a young Scottish girl brandishing both a knife and an axe went viral in late August. She allegedly tried to protect her sister from unwanted advances by an adult man according to the accompanying narrative - a true heroine.

Money that rots like potatoes

• Martin Enlund
• 9/5/25

Only money that goes out of date like a newspaper, rots like potatoes, rusts like iron, evaporates like ether, is capable of standing the test as an instrument for the exchange of potatoes, newspapers, iron and ether.

Until the opposite has been proven

• Martin Enlund
• 8/25/25

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.

EU - a self-licking ice cream cone?

• Martin Enlund
• 7/18/25

The European Commission presented an interim target for 2040 in July on the path to climate neutrality. By 2040, the EU aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% compared to 1990 levels.

Your savings - or Brussel's covert slush fund?

• Martin Enlund
• 6/29/25

The European Union’s economic underperformance has been subject to intense debate since Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank (ECB), published a report on the topic last year.

Order from Chaos

• Martin Enlund
• 4/23/25

Henry Kissinger, an experienced statesman and diplomat, may have put it best: that “Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences”.

Time for a more radical Europe

• Martin Enlund
• 3/9/25

Last fall, Italian economist Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank (ECB), published his 400-page report on Europe’s (actually the EU’s) competitiveness. Draghi’s verdict was harsh: Europe is facing an “existential challenge.” It’s hard to disagree. While the EU is launching new regulations on plastic corks and hiding text messages from the public, Elon Musk is changing the world with groundbreaking innovations in the automotive, robotics, and space industries.