"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...

Is it... HBO?

From R. Crumb's satirical "City of the Future" in Zap Comix (1968)

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...

AI but for knowing when I have no desire to use AI

This feels like the most basic of all possible numbers

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

I mean I know tech guys aren't copyeditors but... C'mon.

Perhaps, instead of turning everything into paperclips, AI is coming to resemble Clippy.

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

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.

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.

Gen-X: 42 Millennials: 420 Gen-Z: 69 Gen-alpha: 6, 7 Solve for the next generation

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...

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...

Wanna feel old? wapo.st/4pi4np0

I don't understand the bit about the bamboo?

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.

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...

If you are fan of Patti Smith (and you should be!), this is well worth spending time with. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oooh, a Windows update! I can't wait to see what wonders they have in store for me...

"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...

Nettles Bring Hives Roses Give Scratches AI Toys Tell Kids to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches futurism.com/artificial-i...