This is a company that has told democratic governments, in so many words: you need us to exist.

What Palantir's 22-point declaration reveals about the cost of dependency — and why democratic nations are quietly building the exit John Pope · Founder, midagent AI · Ottawa, Canada · April 2026 Bird's & Feathers - Alex & Elon at Trump Inauguration I have written in this space about Alex Karp with genuine praise. His argument about neurodivergence and the future of work is one of the more honest and important things a technology executive has said in public in years. I meant

Why AI's Growing Unpopularity Is Not a PR Problem — and What a Crdible Solution Looks Like John Pope · Founder, midagent AI · Ottawa, Canada In the age of AI, trust determines the wining hand. And transparency is now table stakes. On a Friday evening in April 2026, a twenty-year-old man from Texas threw a Molotov cocktail at the gate of Sam Altman's home in San Francisco. An hour later he was arrested outside OpenAI's headquarters, where he had smashed the glass doors with a

midagent AI · April 2026 John Pope · Founder, midagent AI · Ottawa, Canada The world requires steady leadership. Time for Canada to fill the void. There is a passage in Mark Carney's address to the World Economic Forum at Davos in January 2025 that deserves more attention now than it received at the time. Speaking to an audience of finance ministers, central bankers, and institutional investors — the people who move capital and set the conditions under which nations prosper