Stephan Faris
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Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.
"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...
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
https://bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes
about 21 hours ago
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Ok. The durian ice cream was a mistake
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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...
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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.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nicolas-guillou-icc-judge-under-us-sanctions-urges-eu-leaders-to-hold-the-line-and-protect-rule-of-law/
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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...
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The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund
The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.
https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-friendly-european-think-tanks-donald-trump-funding/
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Preeti Chhibber
10 days ago
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
https://gradient.horse/
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They're just like us
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11 days ago
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The Onion
11 days ago
Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun
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Kevin Jon Heller
16 days ago
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...
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Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi shot dead by armed men at home
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s political team says ‘four masked men’ stormed his house in Zintan
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/gaddafi-son-killed-libya-saif-al-islam-b2913486.html
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I'm starting to think Diana and Meghan weren't the problem
17 days ago
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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...
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We're finally learning what it's like to die. And it's not as bad as you think... | BBC Science Focus Magazine
What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to finding out what happens in our brains during our last moments
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/near-death-experiences-brain-activity-nde
18 days ago
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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
18 days ago
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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...
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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.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-diplomats-memes-fight-maga-era-information-wars-emmanuel-macron/
21 days ago
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21 days ago
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Ben Coates
22 days ago
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...
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Eerste details akkoord D66, VVD en CDA uitgelekt: geen eurobonds en begrotingstekort maximaal 2 procent
De eerste details over het coalitieakkoord dat D66, VVD en CDA hebben gesloten, lekken uit. Ingewijden melden aan De Telegraaf dat het stuk de titel ’Aan de slag’ heeft gekregen.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/politiek/eerste-details-akkoord-d66-vvd-en-cda-uitgelekt-geen-eurobonds-en-begrotingstekort-maximaal-2-procent/127313315.html
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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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A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine looks close, except on everything that matters
Three issues still block an agreement to end the war.
https://www.politico.eu/article/peace-deal-between-russia-ukraine-looks-close-except-territory-security-ceasefire-zelenskyy-putin/
22 days ago
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24 days ago
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Things are looking brighter in Brussels
24 days ago
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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.”
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AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Generative AI may already be inducing a state of "cultural stagnation," leading to a convergence of generic ideas, a new study has shown.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-cultural-stagnation
24 days ago
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Jakub Jaraczewski
25 days ago
🇵🇱 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.
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Those famously sunny Poles Europeans are gloomy about pretty much everything. Who can blame them?
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
25 days ago
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about 1 month ago
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Mountain religion
about 2 months ago
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Ben Coates
about 2 months ago
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-...
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This whole paragraph is 👀
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2 months ago
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Oh, we'll keep it alive... In front of all your friends
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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‘Six-Seven’ Is Over
Grown-ups killed it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/six-seven-meme-over/685231/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR79A23LdbvK1X9J2HEi-ezQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
2 months ago
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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
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The Most Influential Man in Europe Thinks Europe is Full of Losers
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.
https://politi.co/44OL4fj
2 months ago
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Spending 90 minutes running around and not scoring is I guess one definition of peace
3 months ago
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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...
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Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t-magazine/gen-x-generation.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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Is it... HBO?
3 months ago
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 months ago
From R. Crumb's satirical "City of the Future" in Zap Comix (1968)
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The overuse of delve (until recently one of my favorite words) by AI is likely because it was disproportionately trained on Nigerian English. One of the very many great nuggets in this piece: Why Does AI Write Like... That
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
3 months ago
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AI but for knowing when I have no desire to use AI
3 months ago
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This feels like the most basic of all possible numbers
3 months ago
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Tracks My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "chatgpt" (10×) 2. "europe" (7×) 3. "trump" (7×) 4. "news" (6×) 5. "brussels" (6×) See which words you used the most here:
anisota.net/harvest
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Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
https://anisota.net/harvest
3 months ago
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I mean I know tech guys aren't copyeditors but... C'mon.
3 months ago
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Phil Tinline
3 months ago
Perhaps, instead of turning everything into paperclips, AI is coming to resemble Clippy.
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whet moser
3 months ago
had the intrusive thought that 30 years from now we’re going to have VC funds and military startups named after harry potter stuff and it’s going to be even more annoying than hobbit stuff
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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear -- doesn't have the same ring to it.
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3 months ago
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Tom Macfarlan
3 months ago
Following the pattern, the next number would be 86? First digit raises by 2, second digit raises by 7 but doesn't interact with the first digit. Or 96 if it does, this is uncharted territory.
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Gen-X: 42 Millennials: 420 Gen-Z: 69 Gen-alpha: 6, 7 Solve for the next generation
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3 months ago
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Ben Coates
3 months ago
It’s horrifying that in the Netherlands, of all places, it’s now common for mayors and councillors of small towns to need security because of threats to their lives. In 2024 *almost half* of public officials were threatened with violence. Understandably, many are giving up
nos.nl/artikel/2592...
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Maatregelen bij woning burgemeester Venlo na online dreiging rond komst azc
Morgen wordt de komst van het azc besproken in een commissievergadering.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2592115-maatregelen-bij-woning-burgemeester-venlo-na-online-dreiging-rond-komst-azc
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Wolfgang Blau
3 months ago
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
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Ermittler vermuten Russland hinter Bauschaum-Attacken auf Autos
Hunderte Autos wurden vor einem Jahr in mehreren Bundesländern mit Bauschaum beschädigt. Die Ermittler gehen derzeit davon aus, dass damit die Grünen vor der Wahl diskreditiert werden sollten.
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermittler-vermuten-Russland-hinter-Bauschaum-Attacken-auf-Autos-id30057484.html
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Wanna feel old?
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When was the first kiss? Over 17 million years ago, a study suggests.
Evolutionary biologists don’t know why we kiss — but new research suggests kissing evolved long before humans existed.
https://wapo.st/4pi4np0
3 months ago
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I don't understand the bit about the bamboo?
3 months ago
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POLITICO Europe
3 months ago
French energy giant TotalEnergies was formally accused yesterday of complicity in war crimes and torture — after a criminal complaint filed in Paris over a massacre at its Mozambique gas site, first exposed by a POLITICO investigation last year.
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TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre
French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.
https://www.politico.eu/article/totalenergies-accused-complicity-war-crimes-mozambique-container-massacre/
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Ben Coates
3 months ago
One of the biggest yet quietist trends we’re living through: the rapid death of overseas aid and diplomacy. “For the first time in 30 years, France, Germany, the UK, and the US all cut their ODA in 2024.. the first time in history all 4 have cut aid simultaneously”
www.politico.eu/article/arms...
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The West’s new arms race: Selling peace to buy war
Military spending is rising faster than at any time since the end of the Cold War, but the retreat from diplomacy and foreign aid will come at a price.
https://www.politico.eu/article/arms-race-cold-war-military-spending-us-white-house/
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If you are fan of Patti Smith (and you should be!), this is well worth spending time with.
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50 Years of Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/07/arts/music/patti-smith-horses-anniversary.html
3 months ago
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Oooh, a Windows update! I can't wait to see what wonders they have in store for me...
3 months ago
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"To be clear: anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past three years must now face the possibility that their personal conversations will be handed over to The Times to sift through at will in a speculative fishing expedition," the company said.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-fights-order-turn-over-millions-chatgpt-conversations-2025-11-12/
3 months ago
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Nettles Bring Hives Roses Give Scratches AI Toys Tell Kids to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger
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