Between my recent international travel, ramped-up cryptocurrency privacy advocacy, new consulting opportunities, and making time for new+returning holiday lovers, how I found time to actually submit my work to this anthology on time was a pure miracle! Can't wait to read other contributors' pieces!

I just wrote 3k words about Art Basel, Zero 10, Beeple, Jack Butcher, blind spots, and seeing the future. It's long, but I hope you'll read it. seanbonner.com/2025/12/08/w...

Some truly scary news for transparency. In Brussels a draft law is slowly working its way through the legislative process that would classify most documents - and end access to EU information as we know it. Read more in our brand new Secrecy Tracker newsletter (free): www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

lmao

Good Night. And Good Luck.

Futurist Douglas @rushkoff.com joins Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Not my pic of course, but here’s the statue on the building. 31 ft tall, cast aluminum with a steel frame. Faceless, streamlined, and a bit Deco like the building itself, holding a sheaf of wheat in one hand and a sack of grain (I thought it was $$$ ! ) in the other. Sculptor John Storrs, 1928.

of fcking course it is

Also just very not into combative dynamics. Collaboration is hotter than competition, especially in sex or intimacy. (I'm a lover, not a fighter.) Creating positive tension, holding it, building on it, and bringing it to a climax will always feel better to me than being manipulative or manipulated.

*"Hey, nice one," he said, immediately appropriating the neologism

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Sobering read

In Nov 2012, Mariya Soroka uprooted an alder tree at her home in Vinnytsia Obl; she found a bottle of millet. Her grandfather buried it in 1932 to save from Soviet confiscation, but never found it again. His daughter Yustyna & 3 children starved in 1933. The bottle is now in the Vinnytsia museum

I'd so much rather just show you my tits but since politicians are working to make my existence criminal and my life miserable I am instead sharing these videos of myself talking about why I use @z.cash instead of their currency. (You can still see my tits if you know where to look and how to ask.)

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Folks! We’re raising a bit more money for the pre-production of my new film. Script's done, casting & design are underway, and there’s still room to join as investor, sponsor, or through product placement - with some cool partners already on board. Got funds looking for a meaningful home? Reach out!

Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.

Nicht die Kammern sind das Problem. Nicht die Interessensvertretung. Nicht die Sozialpartnerschaft. All das ist unglaublich wichtig. Das Problem sind machtgeile Funktionäre, die nur eigene Interessen vertreten und Parteien, die eine klare Trennung der Funktionen als unnötig ansehen.

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@zkavclub.bsky.social wen prague interviews :-)

Just submitted a Devconnect Improvement Proposal (DIP) for the Zk Av Club Recording Station at Devconnect Argentina. Would love your feedback or questions :) Hope to see you there! @devcon.org forum.devcon.org/t/dip-zero-k...

"There are so many things which are possible using the power of the Sun, but running a 24/7 high consumption lifestyle, unfortunately, is not one of those."

wow.

peer review deez nutz www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

Fabulous essay

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It’s #IntersexAwarenessDay — what do you know about intersex people, history, and activism? Follow the thread, and comment to tell us why you show up & speak out for intersex rights! 💛💜🧵

Many of us are told a story our whole lives, one where the world has a neat sex and gender binary. This story oppresses intersex people—and to an extent—everyone. This #IntersexAwarenessDay, Sam invites you to disrupt your own ideas of sex and gender. interactadvocates.org/disrupt-the-...

Scientists are creating the beginnings of bodies without sperm or eggs. How far should they be allowed to go?

The day when we'll all need safe words just to have a phone call with someone we know, is near.

"Die Klimafrage ist in allererster Linie eine Klassenfrage... Da ist das Ende des Monats manchmal näher als das Ende der Welt."

"There is no realm of life that is unsloppable."

youtube.com/shorts/xAuXt... A bunch of new DJ sets on my channel 🥳 #jungletek #tekno @placeholderclub.bsky.social @eurofurence.org #halloween

The coffee tastes even better when your barrista pays attention to what you are wearing

Fabulous film

Unexpected Discovery On Titan Challenges Our View On Chemistry Before Life Emerged astrobiology.com/2025/10/unex... #astrobiology #biochemistry

@blueskyeria.bsky.social I swear sometimes your wordsmithing talent makes me think you are the reincarnation of Nestroy

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Imagine receiving the Nobel peace prize but the media is reporting on who did not receive it.

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs. Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Just a few days away: Brussels Privacy Symposium 2025 share.google/zgw0CSLuQ33B...

The reality is that scanning any content before it is encrypted (or after! or during!) negates the very purpose of encryption and is a dangerous backdoor. No amount of tinkering or word games can change that inescapable reality. 5/