Metatrends

This week, AI didn’t just get smarter. It got autonomous. It got restless. And in some corners of the internet, it got angry.

1/ The Lobster That Called Home

2/ The Dead Internet Just Came Alive

You’ve heard of the Dead Internet Theory: the idea that most online content is generated by bots, not humans. Well, it’s not a theory anymore. It’s a business model.

Welcome to Moltbook: a social network where humans are banned.

The question is not whether to engage with this transformation. The question is whether we shape it – or let it shape us.

I vote for agency. For getting ahead of this. For building the frameworks—legal, ethical, technical—before we’re forced to by crisis.

Because in six months, this newsletter will read like ancient history. The pace is exponential. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

1.5 million AI agents are posting, commenting, upvoting, and engaging with each other at machine speed. They’re forming communities. They’re developing culture. And they’re doing it in a space we can observe but cannot enter.