DataRepublican in Davos, 20 January 2026

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 18:

Introducing my sidekicks in Davos:@DataRepublican @data_republican @DataInterpretr pic.twitter.com/EPc63vbb99

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) January 20, 2026

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 20:

Davos Day 2@DataRepublican offers her first impressions of the WEF. pic.twitter.com/X9Tkpkce7z

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) January 20, 2026

Don't know if the sound is good enough for you to follow, but this is an interview with @DataRepublican and @DataInterpretr being conducted by a Dutch journalist at WEF. My daughter is explaining her very new research project... "soul engineering." It's as evil as it sounds. pic.twitter.com/n3VxK7S8dj

— MOMof DataRepublican (@data_republican) January 20, 2026

Early Davos impressions. Will need to process, consolidate into an article.

- There’s kind of a distributed consciousness at play here. Almost nobody I talked to knows what the AI stuff is about, in concrete details. They just have vibes. And yet they dropped almost all of the…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 20, 2026

… infamous climate justice and most of the DEI sloganeering for AI.

- In my research, when there’s a shift going on and nobody can name it, it usually means an underlying second order crisis … not as simplistic as “we want to control you all with AI”

- Everything is a vibe. They vibe off each other in feel-good slogans. I don’t know if this is the normal, or if this is a “transition” year because they don’t know what to do with AI… earthshaking concrete changes have come from WEF before, like the very real ESG metrics that Schwab put out.

- The shift could also be due to the new leadership

- This is a rich person’s paradise and we were the poorest there. It costs $25,000 a night to stay in Davos. @LarryTaunton taught me tricks to avoid that.

- If advertisements are anything to go by, the “Big Four” accounting companies are the most powerful companies on Earth, period. (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG)

- There’s a strange sense of desperation at losing the narrative here.

All I saw were helicopters, rich folk 1 upping each other, and ads for AI with no purpose. What happened to Climate Change, WEF? Not profitable anymore? https://t.co/EiNXwfDj1U

— DataInterprete(r) (@DataInterpretr) January 20, 2026

@DataRepublican has just discovered the Grand Unified Theory of Woke. They’re like the fireflies that learned how to glow their butt in sync. That’s it! The Liberal Woke have succeeded not from brains, but because they relentlessly follow the herd, always copying each other. https://t.co/TxnrqruP19

— Dennis Collins (@Luscombepilot) January 20, 2026

… for dominance.

Remember, building the largest colonies in the world literally does require anything more than insect intelligence.

In short — they’re all like those fireflies who managed to figure out how to glow their butt in sync. Which is the analogy that @JoshuaLisec figured out for our book.