Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Tom Waits has released his first new music in 15 years (am I that old?). It's a protest song in collaboration with Massive Attack youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

🇭🇺 Hungarian elections: The 9 a.m. turnout (16.89%) is a massive record; four years ago, the same figure was 10.31%.

New: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real @robert-faturechi.bsky.social did some reporting of his own.

If anyone's wondering how I'm doing airallergy.sciensano.be

She Spoke Out About Gaza. The US Turned Her Life Upside Down. My profile of UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for POLITICO Magazine. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“We know everything already, but we’d like to know more." My deep-dive into how the FSB tries to recruit informants to keep tabs on Russian dissidents and foreigners helping them abroad

I'll believe AI has come into its own when it also has to search around online for how to insert an em-dash

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

‘I had a scalp in my hands’: An oral history of the Brussels terror attacks www.politico.eu/article/all-...

My take on Sinners: Give me a sequel featuring the Choctaw vampire hunters My take on One Battle After an Another: Give me a sequel featuring the foul-mouthed, revolutionary nuns

So great

Updating Clausewitz: War is the continuation of politics by other memes

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

That's faster than me www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

The poll results are sobering. I'm in minority, choosing with one exception the human passages -- but it wasn't a fair poll as I recognized some of the entries.

Why Vladimir Putin is the biggest winner from the war in Iran www.politico.eu/article/why-...

What happened in 2004?

Shots fired Franz Ferdinand* gets involved in war www.politico.eu/article/fran...

The holy father drew a fascinating line in the sand, declaring that despite AI’s capabilities now or in the future, a chatbot could never stand-in for a flesh-and-blood priest. “To give a homily is to share faith,” he said, and AI “will never be able to share faith.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

I’m not a computers guy, is this a good thing?

This manages to be totally unsurprising and WOW. "In the fight against common childhood illnesses, scientists have turned to an unusual source: the blood of paediatricians. It turns out this is a treasure trove of powerful antibodies." www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie. ... Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills." bbc.com/future/artic...

Ok. The durian ice cream was a mistake

ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administration’s use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech. www.politico.eu/article/nico...

The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing. www.politico.eu/article/maga...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

They're just like us

Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun

Shocked to learn that Saif Gaddafi has been killed. I spent a ridiculous amount of time writing about him when the #ICC wanted to prosecute him. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I'm starting to think Diana and Meghan weren't the problem

Finally, some good news. We're finally learning what it's like to die. And it's not as bad as you think... www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

My take on Sinners: Give me a sequel featuring the Choctaw vampire hunters My take on One Battle After an Another: Give me a sequel featuring the foul-mouthed, revolutionary nuns

French diplomats are taking on MAGA — one meme at a time Paris is rolling out a confrontational online strategy to counter disinformation from the United States and beyond. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Night follows day. The north star always shines. The mountains do not move. And the new Dutch government is fiscally conservative and opposed to Eurobonds www.telegraaf.nl/politiek/eer...

A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine looks close, except on everything that matters Three issues still block an agreement to end the war. www.politico.eu/article/peac...

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Things are looking brighter in Brussels

Researchers found that a text-to-image generator, when linked up with an image-to-text system and instructed to iterate over and over again, eventually converges on “very generic-looking images” they dubbed “visual elevator music.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

🇵🇱 The paradox of my people is that we will tell you that life is shit, the sky is grey for the fifth month in a row, and nothing makes sense, but we will click "things are getting better" in a poll and end up more optimistic than Austrians or Croatians.

Those famously sunny Poles Europeans are gloomy about pretty much everything. Who can blame them? www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Mountain religion

Final reminder for those still doing Christmas shopping: why not buy a funny and interesting book? Rory Stewart said it was a lovely read! www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-...

This whole paragraph is 👀

Oh, we'll keep it alive... In front of all your friends www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The most important European policymaker for the first time in a decade is not a European and, increasingly, doesn’t even much like the place anymore. The Most Influential Man in Europe Thinks Europe is Full of Losers politi.co/44OL4fj

Spending 90 minutes running around and not scoring is I guess one definition of peace

Makes sense. We were all TIME's person of the year. Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...