A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)

After years of using Safari as my main browser I switched to Orion. It's the same familiar user interface but feels so much faster it's really pleasant. Having my preferred search engine as a first class citizen is a nice bonus. orionbrowser.com

Joost Prinsen is overleden, man met een speciaal plekje in mijn hart. Mijn kennismaking met hem via iconische kinderprogramma’s op televisie, daar heb ik niets van onthouden. Maar hoe geweldig hij het prachtige gedicht “Ben Ali Libi” van Willem Wilmink voordraagt, dat zal ik nooit vergeten.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Pinning Wikipedia to always be the first search result on @kagi.com has significantly changed how I consume the web. For many searches now my first stop is the encyclopaedia. The ordering of search results matters much more than I imagined.

I wish the internet has a better way to find commentary like this. This showed up on my timeline but if I try to find it using a search engine or even Bluesky's search it doesn't turn up.

What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isn’t actually deriving its advice from the real world. 🤦‍♂️

I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them" Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding

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the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.

Whenever I hear someone talk about AI enthusiastically my mind turns to how braindead we can all become.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

This was….five months ago

Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.

Lmao 🤣 savages

Looking around the world right now, it’s hard not to feel very bloody lucky to be a citizen of the European Union.

BlueSky becoming more useful for news basically every day. Simple reason: None of that Elon trash code that punishes direct links. People share stories and we click, like God intended.

Reminder: after around 900k total casualties, #Russia currently occupies 19% of #Ukraine. It occupied 30% three years ago, when it had less than 100k total casualties. Let’s stop pretending that Russia is in a position of strength. It’s only #Trump that tries to put it in one.

I watched Nickel Boys last night and can't help but relate the racism in that movie to everything going on in trumps America right now.

The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

Just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and includes a giant statue of General Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution and a visible reminder of the key role France played in securing U.S. independence.

US historians will forever fondly remember these justices. For they looked at Trump's first term, attempted coup and all, and concluded that what the country needed was presidential immunity from prosecution.

Trump is clearly bad for business but the cost to CEOs and billionaires’ support of the bulldozers to democracy and the betrayers of Ukraine and Europe is impossible to express in dollars ↘️

Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.

Europe's big powers swinging behind ideas to seize frozen Russian assets: 🇫🇷 France discusses proposal to link assets to a Ukraine ceasefire guarantee 🇩🇪 Merz signals openness to spending Kremlin cash 🇬🇧 Starmer says "looking at what possibilities are... with other countries” www.ft.com/content/6536...

Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.

Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I stand with Ukraine Proud to live in a country (the Netherlands) that unconditionally supports Ukraine. Europe needs to re-arm, to support Ukraine and defend itself and democracy. Ukraine is the one defending Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine should be part of the EU. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

On my way to London to highlight Europe’s ongoing support to Ukraine that can lead to just and lasting peace in Ukraine. The path to peace is strength. Weakness breeds more war. We will support Ukraine, while undertaking a surge in European defence.

We have no more time for words. Europe needs plans. Here’s one: Even 100 European jets protecting the skies over western Ukraine would have greater impact than deploying 10,000 European ground troops, with less cost and less risk to personnel’s lives. Europe can make this happen.

We need European countries to announce that we will fight in Ukraine immediately.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am. This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.

Incredible strength and courage from Zelenskyy. Standing up to a room full of bullies in an orchestrated, stage-managed ambush. Never backing down. Never letting the lies take root. Absolute hero for the ages.

I hope it is completely clear now that you cannot be a supporter of Donald Trump and support freedom and democracy in Ukraine. If you support Trump, you support the USA working closely and justifying Putin's dictatorship in the invasion of Ukraine. Accept it.

Turns out Apple doesn't care about privacy anymore after the big marketing push they did a couple of years ago.