What I learned to love about this website is that when you look at a screenshot like this, you can't be 100% sure which replies are serious and which ones are jokes. This, to me, is Blueskyism

A running thread of pieces exploring America's descent into cloutocracy

🚨: In the midst of the Grok scandal, Polish president Karol Nawrocki has just decided to veto the bill implementing the Digital Services Act into national law

New reaction pic

🚨: In the midst of the Grok scandal, Polish president Karol Nawrocki has just decided to veto the bill implementing the Digital Services Act into national law

The 3Cs - COVID, crypto, cage fighting – theory of MAGA 2.0 put forward by @quinnslobodian.com in November 2024 is still one of the best frameworks for understanding this admin that I know of. The only amendment I'd propose is a 4th C for content/clout, through which all other Cs are mediated

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

I know the lowest form of Bluesky discourse is "Look, at those freaks at X are saying" but this post really left me speechless in a completely novel and singular way

Some good new reporting on the ongoing Grok nightmare from @hadasgold.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...

I sincerely believe that one day Viet-Pol cuisine will have the same recognition as Tex-Mex

A running thread of pieces exploring America's descent into cloutocracy

In the spirit of making this site less stuffy, I'm (anxiously) sharing a (still expanding) DJ set-style playlist of new British electronic music. Works best with playback settings set to a 12-second crossfade. Apple Music: music.apple.com/pl/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/37T...

In the spirit of making this site less stuffy, I'm (anxiously) sharing a (still expanding) DJ set-style playlist of new British electronic music. Works best with playback settings set to a 12-second crossfade. Apple Music: music.apple.com/pl/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/37T...

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

From a recent piece about the rise and fall of Podemos www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Even truer for Grok

Do poczytania na długi weekend open.substack.com/pub/jeczjan/...

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

Man’s creating sound bites to be sampled in dozens of protest songs to come

Do poczytania na długi weekend open.substack.com/pub/jeczjan/...

Behold, my one of a kind Kermit The Frog Energy Dome! And inside? A screaming Kermit mouth!

It’s SO COLD outside that I saw rugged individualists SPOONING to create the WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Napisałem raport o techsuwerenności Europy. W części 1. poświęcony jest definicjom i historii tej idei, w 2. - praktyce jej wdrażania. Powstał głównie z myślą o osobach, które chcą uporządkować sobie wiedzę nt. tego modnego pojęcia. PDF: www.politykainsight.pl/_resource/mu...

The Polish government has asked the EU to take action against TikTok over a series of videos showing AI-generated young women calling for Poland to leave the EU. "There is no doubt this is Russian disinformation," says the government's spokesman.

Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/

This photo and the stolen lobsters story mark a great end to an already amazing year for heists

Dune 3: Dune Dune Duuune!

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

And Tiny Tim, who WILL NEVER DIE (Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh)

Zygmunt Bauman, “Modernity and the Holocaust” (1989)

Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.

Each year I find some gems on the @alphaville.ft.com's "non-FT articles of the year" list. This time it was i.a. an investigation into Mike Wazowski's ethnic background sproutstack.substack.com/p/is-mike-wa...

Show this image to your relatives during the holidays to immediately bridge generational gaps

European states need immigrants but don't want them. How to square that circle? Posture against immigrants while taking in more than ever before but treating them as a permanent second-class serving caste with few rights. Me @financialtimes.com on European kafala as.ft.com/r/7e2026f8-5...

Udało się! W nowym rozkładzie jest pociąg o 21, przed północą w Poznaniu!

Living in Poznań means sitting in a café straight out of Kreuzberg, where young people who look like they live in Kreuzberg tell each other horror stories about their catholic upbringing.

All discourse is the same now.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

US threatens countermeasures after EU fine on Musk's X reut.rs/4aRh32b

European Commission announcing climate-related policies:

If “Europe Is in Decline”, as Anton Jager argues today in the NYT, then in what state is the United States?

The UK negotiated a quantum deal, but didn't know that for the US it meant that it's in a quantum superposition

So, the EU is left with trade defences and IRA style industrial policies as the only viable options. I am a broken record, but some of us have been thinking about this now for a few years, once the Chinese economy started dramatically re-unbalancing, and it’s where you logically end up. 3/3

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

I propose "Musk's razor", an inverted Hanlon's razor, that states "Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice"