Back in Brussels after more than 15 years, on a mission to find out what and where the Bubble is (and how to get into it)

Back in Brussels after more than 15 years, on a mission to find out what and where the Bubble is (and how to get into it)

This reminded me about an anecdote that Arthur Scargill (leader of the miners’ strikes) used to read the FT before the Morning Star "to get the facts"

Wemby flipped the whole “EU-US competitiveness gap” debate on its head. Draghi should just admit that he thought Europe is in decline because he has watched too much Simone Fontecchio

You can always refrain from posting. It’s always morally correct.

Jeremy Juliusz Sochan, NBA Champion

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Remember when Musk denied any involvement in the project? I remember

You can always refrain from posting. It’s always morally correct.

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To najpewniej pierwszy - i mam nadzieję, że nie ostatni - raz, gdy w podcaście Polityki Insight padają słowa “Warhammer 40.000”

Today, we have imposed a €200 million fine on Temu under the Digital Services Act, for failing to identify, analyse, and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being offered on its platform. 🔗 link.europa.eu/YFcf6y

That's how I see Meta glasses

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Guy on a train in front of me was reading the Polish translation of "The Art of The Deal" and just asked a woman who told him he's sitting in her seat to show him her ticket

Me when I heard about “tastemaxxing”

Also, 100% true, alt media and forums losing ground to Facebook in the early 2010’s created conditions for Partia Razem to, for the first time ever, reach every niche lefty subculture in Poland through a single website

That’s the kind of discourse I come for on this site

a lot of things in the 2020s that should have been going on in music got pushed into politics and tech because no one cares about music or drama anymore, imo

Jeremy Juliusz Sochan, NBA finalist

The pope quoting Gandalf in the encyclical aimed at Palantir… He knows ball

And on top of that his nemesis’ (Thiel) right-hand man and a CEO of a company most antithetical to the views expressed in the new encyclical is a philosopher who studied under Habermas (Karp)

Parenting is a scam invented by Big Therapy to get more clients

Hijacking this post to repeat my plea for a Bourdieu biopic starring Mikkelsen

The technology can’t fail, it can only be failed

As someone who spent too much time typing quotes from books, I’m still amazed by the fact that I can now point the smartphone camera at the page, OCR the text, select a couple of phrases and copy it into a document. These is the type of AI proliferation I want to see more of

tbf he kinda nailed it

Meanwhile Marx: “To the capitalist, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury”

Polecam na weekend nagranie rozmowy, którą miałem przyjemność przeprowadzić z dr. Jakubem Ryzenko, bo to rzadki przypadek konwersacji o kryzysie klimatycznym i katastrofach naturalnych z optymistycznym przesłaniem: że przynajmniej w sferze mitygacji zagrożeń potrafimy i robimy coraz więcej

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

The book in question: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

This piece was clearly meant to bait Harry and @redford.bsky.social into mentioning it on Nothing But Respect

Wemby flipped the whole “EU-US competitiveness gap” debate on its head. Draghi should just admit that he thought Europe is in decline because he has watched too much Simone Fontecchio

It’s a bad sign of times when the FT is Baudrillard-posting. Nevertheless it’s well worth reading

Also known as the “Orange Catholic Bible”

I wonder how often priests AI generate homilies. The self-confident, pompous style of LLMs is well suited for this genre of writing

This weird article is an excerpt from a book, and it reads like a @ifbookspod.bsky.social bait. No evidence is given for the main thesis - that a digitally driven epistemic crisis is a Gen Z-specific phenomenon - except for a couple of anecdotal quotes, one of which comes from Scott Galloway.

VAR aside, it’s interesting that he let himself go off on this tangent. It might make him look like a “common man”, but I’m more impressed by politicians who always stay on message. Ask Mamdani about VAR and he’d probably say that instead of technocratic policies we need forgiveness for mistakes

That's Blueskyism

“Cbat” - Hudson Mohawke

If the bonds can influence who will be the next British prime minister, the prime ministers should have a say in who will be the next Bond. It's only fair

I was leaving the room at a conference when Scott Galloway’s keynote started. He opened with an anecdote about his habit of telling his half-Polish sons “Daj mi buzi” (“Give me a kiss”), which they don’t like. Then he proceeded to pontificate about saving young men

If the bonds can influence who will be the next British prime minister, the prime ministers should have a say in who will be the next Bond. It's only fair

Not the main point, but a16z’s Substack copied this and another chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s column from October without linking to it www.ft.com/content/a072...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The reason why it's so hard to get humanoid robots to the market is that it will cost you an arm and a leg, and you'll still only be halfway there

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Bardzo byłem z siebie dumny, gdy lata temu wymyśliłem dla newslettera tytuł “źródło: internet”. Teraz jestem jeszcze bardziej dumny z tagline’u, którym go uzupełnię: “Tu wwwwszystko się zaczęło”